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Chapter 8 Part 13 Post 7
The interesting thing that these students have accomplished is that Gaudino’s name is all over the place on the campus.
Chapter 8 Part 13 Post 6
I think Bob’s experience in the Williams-at-Someplace program has been vindicated to a degree in that a lot of programs now are located abroad.
Chapter 8 Part 13 Post 5
On a number of different levels, Williams-at-Home crystallized the desire to try to use some of my skills to some degree on societal problems or people, the underdog, and made me empathize more. Partly Gaudino himself in terms of his disease and how he approached it and how he basically, even though he was ill, […]
Chapter 8 Part 13 Post 4
Well, I think a lot of people who were among those — many, not everyone — who were moved by Bob’s teaching and by his compassionate life found that to be one of the great personal and intellectual experiences of their lives and they wanted to somehow continue this and to do things in a […]
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One of his very brightest students, Richard Herzog, an attorney in Washington, a very, very bright guy, very thoughtful person. By the way, you can almost invariably tell Gaudino students 30 years after they graduated out of college. I can tell they are Gaudino students within three minutes of talking to them. Richard Herzog called […]
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Students did all of this on their own. I mean they raised the money and they talked to the administration, the people you have to talk to get this done. And then Dan O’Connor, who was dean at the time, Dean of the College, hit on the idea of appointing this Gaudino Scholar, and John […]
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The Robert L. Gaudino Memorial Fund started the day he died. He was a mentor to people who at that time had been out of college for six, seven, eight years, nine years, ten years, who were young professionals. So when he died they immediately said we want to perpetuate not only the memory but […]
Chapter 8 Part 12 Post 2
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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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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I’m now chairman of the board of one of the large international schools out here and we are very much carrying the torch where we have a cutting edge experiential education center, the outdoors center. China engagement is a big part of what we’re doing because we’ve got to get these kids out of their […]
