My parents, there were some questions like sort of “Why?” And the interesting thing was that Gaudino made a real effort to include the parents, to educate them a little bit. We had a couple of sessions where parents were invited on campus, to his house and he really wooed the parents and was writing them during the program when we were doing our home-stays. He wasn’t telling us all this. And my parents were writing him back and I think that he was able to ingratiate himself very well.

Jeff Thaler '74