“Gaudino, and later on, I myself, demanded a very close reading of the text. So in order to maintain that rigor in class he also maintained a kind of formality that I’m sure everybody has mentioned. And those were people who later on, after Bob had gotten sick and towards the end of his life, people who came to be with him, to help him out, to cook for him and so on and so forth, he would continue to call them “Mr.” Again this was merely because of his insistence that the student loathe the kind of particularly 1960s [mentality] that must’ve been a horror to him. Those were the days when students began to call faculty by their first names because of the kind of liberality of the anti-war movement and so on and so forth. And Gaudino hated all of that. So there was this formality about him with students.

–Kurt Tauber,
Former Political Science Professor