Monday, November 28, 2011

When old professors die

When retired college professors die, their survivors are often confronted with file drawer after file drawer of old lecture notes, class lists, and course syllabi from twenty or thirty years ago.  Not that I’m planning to die real soon, but I decided that I would save people a good deal of trouble and perhaps some guilt by recycling all of that old course material before the inevitable end.  
I am looking at a class list from Hayward State, where I taught a few evening courses.  Among the names are Aguilera, Alvarez, Chang, Cruz, Gonzalez, Kageyama, Kato, Nguyen, Patel, Phan, Qureshi, Rios, and Tsan.  Sometimes I miss the Bay Area so much my heart aches.

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