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EARLY WILLIAMS YEARS
“Intellectual Man of Mystery”

Faculty Wives

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Fred Schuman – he would go swimming every day. That was very important to him. He explained to me one time that he would – he must have been 70, 72, maybe 68, 70, whatever. Looking back on it now I’m 78 and I sort of smile, but he said, “You know, John, I’ve got […]
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There’s a footnote that I think needs to get in here. At the time, virtually all of the faculty were male and the married ones had spouses, somebody who tended not to work and stayed home with children, or if they did work they were a secretary, they had a non-professional job. So there was […]
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When I came on the faculty, then I was a colleague and not a student. I remember he had been to India by then and my first job out of graduate school I spent two years in Karachi. And the first time that my former wife and I had Bob over for dinner, the first […]
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Well, spouses at Williams were only second class citizens and Bob just seemed to accept us as human beings worthy of taking part in discussions. I thought that was really very nice. Sometimes he would follow me out to the kitchen and say, “What do you think of such and such?” I was not a […]
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I sort of remember everybody as kind of lounging around, sitting back in their chairs and talking and usually listening to Bob. I don’t know how soon I realized what a kind, thoughtful, stern man he was. I don’t know what I felt at first. I was kind of hostess to everybody with food and […]
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