Posted on Sept. 27: Commerce student saves consultant’s day…and computer

A fourth-year student in the School of Business is being lauded for recovering a visiting consultant's computer this week.

In this story, Bob Hodgson, director of external relations for the School of Business, tells how Ian Colbeck literally saved the day for one businessman. “Ian is clearly a young man with strong moral character, and someone whose actions should make all at McMaster proud!” proclaims Hodgson.

Upon reading this story, we think you'll agree.

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At the end of a long day, a visiting consultant at the DeGroote School of Business, placed his briefcase containing a virtually new – and expensive – notebook computer on the ground next to his vehicle while he prepared to depart.

His attention was diverted momentarily, and he drove off, leaving the
bag on the ground where he'd placed it. When he arrived at his destination and discovered he did not have the computer, and in a state of panic at the prospect of losing all of his newly created work, he drove back to campus.

The bag, as expected, was gone. With a large measure of skepticism, he placed a note on a motorcycle that was freshly parked near where he'd placed the bag. Perhaps, he thought, the cyclist had come upon it.

His faith was rewarded when he received a call late in the evening
from Ian Colbeck, a fourth-year McMaster commerce student, who owned the motorcycle and had rescued the computer.

Ian was delighted to find and return the computer to its owner.