Then of course there was the Snack Bar. And the regular get-togethers at the Snack Bar, which to me is Williams, gathering around the Snack Bar and just discussing current movies, current events. Everything from the Beatles to baseball I suppose. There was a regular time I went there, which was 11 o’clock every night […]

My freshman year I played freshman basketball and was trying to keep my weight up, so I would go there and have a chocolate milkshake every night. Yes, I loved to sit in the snack bar—but probably not as much as Robert.

Bob loved to go to the snack bar and we would have these incredibly sometimes intense discussions, even about religion. But then we would have things connected with joking, the ways we felt about students and how we sort of identified students. This was the days before you got a sheet from the registrar’s office […]

I mean there are apocryphal stories of course, you know, because everybody invents his own. But he might be sitting at the football game and admire a particular formation, a particular play which had just been pulled off by the Williams team, and he would turn to the student next to him and say, “Mr. […]

Only Gaudino could ask, “What would Mao Zedong think of the Williams-Amherst game?”

I remember one time I was in the stacks, working, and he walked by and I think with Rensenbrink, Prof. Rensenbrink. I have a vivid memory of this. And I was there working, studying something or other and he stopped by and said, “So Mr. Nimetz, Aristotle or Plato, which one?” Well, you know you’re […]

Summer of ‘59 actually I lived in what’s now Mears House and in exchange for living in the house I painted woodwork and things of that sort and bumped into Gaudino several times during the summer. And I still have in my copy of the Dialogues of Plato the list that he gave me of […]

With my graduation weekend I had a friend whose father was president of a major international bank. Daddy was a big name. Yes, it must have been her graduation because she wanted him to meet Gaudino and Gaudino got into this, you know, this discussion about banking and different things and I remember my friend […]