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Paul Lieberman

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We certainly were still friends and some of it may have been my misunderstanding, but I had a problem with his guru role. I was challenging everything I saw and I hated how a lot of students became these disciplines and clones. After a while, the students around Gaudino would have long late discussions at […]
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One night senior year, in the fall of 1970, he asked maybe half a dozen students to come to his house. We didn’t know what it was about but he wanted to talk about having been diagnosed with a potentially fatal illness. This was another time you took your shoes off. He probably still had […]
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Part of my difference with him was what I saw as youth versus age. I did an interview with him for the Williams Record in which we discussed confrontation with otherness and uncomfortable learning, his concepts. And what he felt was that you went into an environment that was different from your own — and […]
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Of course, there’s another question: Has our confrontation with him changed us? When you encounter someone who listens like no one you’ve ever met—totally, without remainder–that may well have a lasting impact on even the most self-centered student. And it’s not just listening. It’s hearing—and hearing not merely the literal words, but the worldview coming […]
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Thank you for having accepted our invitation to take off your shoes and spend a bit of time with the remarkable Mr. Gaudino. This oral history was initiated in 2002 by the board of the Robert L. Gaudino Memorial Fund at Williams College, which envisioned something far less ambitious—more of an institutional record memorializing the […]
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While a few interviews were conducted by necessity over the phone, most were done face-to-face as my work on various writing projects took me around the country. I was able to connect with Gaudino’s former protégé Craig Brown in Arizona, with Jake Gaudino at his retirement home in Indio, Calif., outside Palm Springs, and with […]
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We owe a different sort of thanks, one more profound, to the students and faculty friends who helped Bob Gaudino through his final years. We hear from a few in the oral history, but there were others, including the chaplain’s son, Alan Eusden, and Williams-in-India’s Parker Croft, who assisted Gaudino with daily life in his […]
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