I grew up in a small town outside New Haven. My dad was a claims adjustor for the railroad. When I was a freshman, as it came toward Winter Study, my JAs said, “Oh, you’ve got to take this thing with Gaudino.” I was just the one month deal talking about experience in education and of course I was immediately hooked on him but it was probably for all the wrong reasons. It couldn’t have been more tailor made for someone who was a self-absorbed teenager wanting to think about nothing but himself because we wrote about how we’d been educated in and out of the classroom, blah, blah, blah, blah. Then during that Winter Study they announced the Williams at Home program. It really wouldn’t have mattered what it involved as long as it involved him.

Dick Slade '74