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Rudy Goff arrived in Williamstown in 1964 which coincidentally was the same year that all of us began our four years at Williams. He was a 29-year-old pro who came to Williamstown from Stockbridge with his wife Joanne, their two young sons, and their two young daughters.. Rudy was brought in to be both the […]

Simply stated Binks Little is the finest teacher I ever encountered. It has been nearly five decades now since I left his classroom behind. This gives me more perspective than I might wish. Yet as I sit down to write this appreciation it is striking how vivid my memories are. First and foremost there was […]

Coach Al Shaw Coach Al was a basketball legend before we arrived at Williams. He played at U. Mich. before coming to Williams in 1949, and coached until 1973. Appearances in the 1955 and 1962 NCAA tournaments punctuated his early achievements.  We learned early not to challenge him to a shooting contest, as he practiced […]

Robert L. Gaudino My impressions of Robert Gaudino were formed when I took several of his classes and experienced the extraordinary way he taught. I later served as a Trustee on the Gaudino Memorial Fund, founded by my brother Richard ’60. A character in my novel, Not Our Fathers’ Dreams, includes a character who is […]

Kurt Tauber, who taught political science during our years at Williams, continues to live in Williamstown in retirement. Kurt was born in 1922 in Vienna, Austria, came to Williams in 1960 as a member of the Political Science Department and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1964 when we arrived. As we remember well, he […]

Richard Ager Newhall Our freshman class, arriving in the fall of 1964, contained an exceptionally large number of history students. This seriously overtaxed the resources of the College’s history department, and reinforcements were brought in to meet the demand. One was a legendary, retired professor, Richard Ager Newhall. He had last taught at Williams eight […]

To Finish a Book Charles Samuels was a professor of English and of Film Studies at Williams College in the 1960s and part of the 1970s. He was, by near all accounts of former students, a terrifying presence in the classroom – not maniacally nor physically nor in volume but in intellect, in rigor and […]