Tim,

I am also a Tim and cannot bring myself to sign emails to current students with either 
Tim or Dr. Gaines.  My cop-out solution is similar to yours.  I am

T. Gaines

>Dr Hetzel-
>:) I don't have a single response to your question either. We tend to
>get a lot of first in the family college students who don't think there
>is any difference in Dr. So-and-so and their high school teachers (not
>to say that some high school teachers aren't also PhDs). Anyway, I tend
>to ask 1st year and sophomore students to call me Dr Shearon (or at
>least I strongly imply that). But email is another thing. The lack of
>formality does make it hard or awkward to sign it Dr and signing Tim
>removes or at least seems to the request to call me Dr Shearon. So my
>solution is a bit of a cop-out. I sign emails to those students as,
>TOS
>_________________________________________________
>Timothy O. Shearon, PhD
>Albertson College of Idaho
>2112 Cleveland Blvd.
>Caldwell, ID 83605
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>teaching: History and systems; Intro to Neuropsychology; Child
>Development; Physiological Psychology; Psychology and Cinema
>
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 Professor of Psychology                phone:  864-833-8349
 Presbyterian College                   fax:  864-833-8481
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