“Well, you know, when you get asked by a guy like Bob Gaudino to do something that’s at the end of his life and it’s going to be a memorial, you consider it probably the greatest honor you ever had. But Bob and I had to have a talk about it. First of all would it be in the chapel? Or would it be in one of the big halls that we have? And he thought, “Well, I like halls.” He said, “I’m not too big on the chapel.” But I said, “Bob, the chapel is sort of a central thing about memorials.” And he said, “Well, that’s up to you.” And then I said, “What about God?”
–“My favorite Gaudino story is about Eusden as the chaplain at Williams. Anyway, Gaudino knew he was dying. He said, “You know, you spent your whole life as a minister and it’s all based on there being a god. You must wonder whether there’s a god or not. So I’m going to die and then they’re going to have this memorial service and if there’s a god I’ll come down and tap on your shoulder during the memorial service and you will know that you are right.” He told me before he died, yes. And he did it in his typical kind of mischievous, teasing, smiling way. Mischievous is the best word.
–Bill Loomis '71“I felt–well, I woke up in the middle of the night. I felt a tap. I can only say that. I can’t say whether it was a dream. Was I imagining it? I don’t know. But I don’t think it was a dream. So we went ahead with a little bit of God in that service, yeah.
