“I do remember talking to him about the fact that I felt much more energized about my work, much more engaged in the academic and intellectual endeavor of the classroom, and that I was at the time actually thinking that maybe I would go on and get a doctorate or something. I was struck by how much more immersed and involved I was in the course. Just before I graduated, running into Gaudino, I had a conversation with him about that in which he sort of remembered what I said that two years earlier, and he asked me what had happened and how it evolved. Well, I ran into him on the steps of Hopkins. At that point he was very much disabled. We paused on the steps of Hopkins and he said, “So” — I can’t remember when he called me Jon or Mr. Kravetz — but he said, “So, have you decided to become a scholar?” And I said, sort of a little sheepishly, “No, you know, I don’t really think that I have the heart of a scholar. I think that pursuing it I would be too lonely,” just too removed from people. And he sort of chuckled and he said, “I’m not surprised because you love people more than ideas, or people more than knowledge.”

And, you know, I think that looking back over what I’ve done, although I’ve been a lawyer, but looking back over the way I think of myself in any way, that’s true three and a half decades later.

–Jon Kravetz '74