What I remember about his classes, again, my first exposure to political philosophy, was he paired philosophical constructs with movies. So we watched “High Noon” that 25 years later I gave to my boss to watch in hopes that he would get the same message out of it that Gaudino had taught us – that was the covenant between citizen and state and why people who have to govern need the loyalty of the citizens. He picked these movies to demonstrate philosophical points and different points of view. Before he showed the films I thought this was kind of hokey but once he had the discussion of philosophy and you read the book and then you watched the films, I thought this was very good stuff. I had a job years later, decades later, where I had more responsibility and authority and at one point I said, “Look, I’m about done with this for the same reason as Gary Cooper dropping his badge on the ground.” It’s sort of life lessons combined with political philosophy. So you have the theory and then you have the experiential situation and then years later you say, “Whoa, this is relevant to me, too.”

Bill Loomis '71