Alumnus Charles Hauff advocates taking risks

Kolet Buenavides
Staff Writer

   Charles 'Chuck' Hauff, patent lawyer and Muskingum College alumnus, visited campus Oct. 16 and 17, offering students work advice and techniques for finding honest answers concerning work opportunities.

   "I want to make everyone understand that there is hope, teach them how to ask questions and get honest answers," Hauff said about his visit. While here, he attended classes and gave talks to a variety of student audiences.

   Hauff has combined his passion for law and science in his field of work. He wants to ensure that everyone is aware of that possibility and instill in peoples minds that dreams are possible and can be achieved. He became very successful in his field as he was the recipient of the American Chemical Society, Chemistry, and the Law Division's Roger Middlekauff Award, which recognizes leadership.

   Hauff said that the most valuable lesson he learned from his education at Muskingum College was to get involved in as many organizations as you can and not to be afraid of taking risks.

   Hauff spoke about how he took a risk in the middle of his career to help build and intellectual patent law firm in Phoenix, and about how his time as a student at Muskingum prepared him for taking such risks.

   Today, his firm has more than twenty patent attorneys and his firm is regarded as one of the biggest and one of the best Intellectual Property firms in the southwestern inter-mountain region.

   "If I did not take that opportunity and seize it in my hands, it would have passed me by and I would never have known if I would have succeeded or not," Hauff said.

   Hauff spoke to various law and science classes as well as the MACE club.

   He recommended that everyone follow his or her own dreams, arguing that one's education can always be put to good use later in life.

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