No, it wasn t a classroom. It was a break room, a faculty lounge of sorts, where one often encountered Larry and Alfredo Rodriguez, and Dan Daniel and Troy Boucher. Over endless cups of coffee, students and their professors discussed the world s problems and the day s burning issues. In that room interested students were welcomed and made to feel that their opinions and knowledge were important. And in that room I came to realize that for Larry class was always in session.
Class is always in session.
69 Rick Johnson is director of career services at Bethany College in Lindsborg. During the first January Interterm for Southwestern College in 1969 and midway through my senior year, I traveled with approximately 25 other biology majors under the leadership of faculty members Max Thompson and Bob Wimmer to New Mexico and Arizona to study desert life. Little did I know that this would be the beginning of a lifelong friendship with Max. That spring semester, Max hired me to put up bird skins for the Southwestern study collection. He taught me the fine art of scraping the fat from the skins without tearing them.