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Meet...Mel Name: Rev. Melvin Williams. How long at MUSC: 8 years. Favorite TV show: Regis and Kathy Lee. Favorite reading: Biblical literature. Favorite room in the house: Kitchen. Least favorite chore: Taking out the trash. Ingredient you must have in your refrigerator: Milk. Fondest childhood memory: Riding the train. Pet peeve: Traffic jams. Bad habit: Eating late. Special place in the world to you: The first parish where I served as pastor in New Jersey. What is your biggest challenge at work: Ministering to the needs of others as chaplain at MUSC. Person you admire the most: Former Charleston County Councilman Lonnie Hamilton. He has guided me during my career from helping me towards an undergraduate  music scholarship to a doctorate in Urban Ministry at Erskine Seminary. If you suddenly had a free day, what would you do: Clean up my garage. Something people don't know about you: I enjoy cartoons and country western music. Where is your parish now: I am pastor of the Greater Jerusalem AME Church in Lane.   Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.