I mean this is a group of students — everybody is taking shots together, we’re going to India together, and I would say we spent just gobs of time in Gaudino’s living room. I’d say there was actually extraordinary intimacy among the students and as relations with Bob Gaudino, I’d say, as well. He always called us “Mr.” And I’ll never forget, it was about two-thirds the way through our time in India. One day I was talking to him. I knew suddenly, I knew something was different. At first I didn’t realize what it was, because I’m “Dale,” right? And then I began to realize that he had begun to call us by our first names. Interestingly enough, we never talked about it. We should have. We could have had a good conversation actually about that. And of course he kept calling all other students by their last name back in Williamstown.

Dale Riehl '72