In 1997, I was lucky to join Roy and Deborah on the ASA delegation of scholars to the Japanese Association for American Studies meeting. Traveling with Roy was a delight, the perfect occasion for his combination of curiousity and wit. What I…

I’ve learned so much from reading all the entries here, but it’s also reinforced what we all already knew—Roy was a unique, wonderful person who enriched the lives of many hundreds of people through friendship and personal contact,…

This is my October 21, 1007 column for The Examiner newspaper.

Being a teacher is as schizophrenic as being a student. There’s class, and there’s life, and “never the twain shall meet.” Students pretend to focus on…