She sits on the department's teaching awards committee, maintains graduate students' records and oversees the course evaluation process for graduate seminars. Marley says she shines in that role as well, ensuring that urgent matters are brought to his attention quickly, while also guarding his time so that he can meet his teaching and research obligations. LoCascio says there is a simple reason why she has decided to stay put in the department for the past 22 years. It's a special place. Everybody works well together.
People genuinely respect one another.
LoCascio began working at McGill in 1973 as a receptionist in the Faculty of Music. It was supposed to be a temporary gig, but she wound up staying and transferred to psychology in 1976. I thought there was more of a chance for me to move up the ladder. She toyed with the idea of quitting and doing a degree in counselling, but abandoned the notion once she got married and had a couple of kids. Of course, she has become a counselor of sorts, much to her satisfaction.