Really, its a wonderful thing when students get back to me. Some of it is just where I lived. For years and years and years I lived right across the street from the Little Theatre, or Schaeffer Theatre as it is now, and then I had a second marriage. My second wife commuted roughly fifty weeks a year to Portland to be a lawyer and I walked two minutes to Parked for 35 weeks a year to teach and it seemed a little unfair, so we moved closer to Portland. I virtually never come back for any events.
Time becomes precious in a two career world.
My notion of a responsible father these days is to share domestic responsibilities. There is a good deal of emphasis on programs that will increase faculty and student contact through common research projects. You ve got to give me more on student life. I was 25, married with a young family, and because I was young and approachable, and I suppose, too dumb to say no, I was asked to chaoerone this canoe trip. I ve seen very little indication that I m wanted.