“Since he had always been having students in his home, he was very used to that, you know, “Well, you go get the drinks,” and so on. I mean he wouldn’t just wait on them hand and foot. They all participated. So when it came time where he couldn’t really get to the classroom, it didn’t seem like such a big leap for him to simply hold his classes in his home, which is what he did during the last two or 2½ years. He was simply too sick. He’d lost control of his legs and his arms were going akimbo and so on, even with the medication. So what he did was, typical fashion, this was probably where he intruded his person more into the classroom than he ever had before, he said, “Look, I’m a pretty sick person, and you can see…but I still think I have something to offer, and we’ll deal with it together.” And I was saying to John Chandler recently, I’d love to interview some of the people who were in that very last class, or maybe the last two classes, to see what impact that might’ve had on them, because that’s the kind of experience, at 18 or 19, you don’t normally deal with a professor in that kind of a situation. Again, he was constantly saying, “Well, we could probably learn something from this.”
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