We took four courses a semester at Williams and the course with Bob Gaudino was a double-credit course so you only took three classes, half of the time with him. I sort of think it was unprecedented. We took a course in Indian art and- architecture with Milo Beach. The college needed a new member of the art department with some kind of an Asian background, Asian specialty. Gaudino got wind of this and he lobbied the art department very heavily that that specialist be an Indian art expert. Now as I understand it then, and even now, there are exceptionally few people who have expertise in Indian art in the entire United States. And the college happened to chance on this guy Beach who had just gotten a Ph.D. the year before from Harvard and was at the Fogg, had all the right credentials, right place and time and he was an Indian art expert. His ideal job was teaching Indian art on a Vermont mountaintop. So Milo Beech’s first fall at Williams was teaching us plus, I think, Art 101, art history. The last course was a course in development economics. It was crafted just for this group of us, a special course that would bridge people with a lot of economics and a little, directed specifically toward the developing world. In the fall, besides those three classes, Gaudino created a film series for us which was open to everyone on the campus. Lectures, there were guests on the campus I’d say at least every other week. Again, open, but they were set up for our primary benefit.

Dale Riehl '72