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LEGACY
Careers, Tears and a Dream

A Conversation Among the India Crowd

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I went up to the college a couple of times when he got sicker and at one point I came out to him, which was a big deal for me. He laughed and said something like, “Well, did you think that was going to change the world?” I guess my answer was “No,” but basically […]
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There’s a difference between saying he didn’t respond effusively when you came out to him and/or you still became a lawyer. I would come back to the point of view that here you put yourself in a Masters program of Middle Eastern studies and you applied yourself to another language. Would that have been something […]
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I have acknowledged that was a fundamental influence and I’ve used it to structure a good part of my life.
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It matters to me that Gary [Patteson] has photos in his office. You’re comfortable sending the message to people who may not know you, “Oh where did you take that?” “I was in India.” Gary, those pictures, I don’t know what they are but here you are, you’re going to deal with X number of […]
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They blanket my walls. I have one–they’re really of the village–a picture of 15 children all with totally radiant smiles, another fellow carrying a bucket of dirt, another one of two older gentlemen standing in the fields. And the rest of my office is all my family. Well I feel that Williams-in-India has shaped me. […]
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We’ve alluded to the fact that Gaudino was a maverick and may not have been completely trusted by the faculty. I think that the college has gone on to be just completely invested in its academic reputation, its stature and standing. So to be almost crude about it, Williams-in-India was a mutant exception to both […]
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