Sean, You can get better results contacting Marc at cardweaver@netzero.com. They check that one more often than he remembers to check his hotmail. Just found this forum and looking forward to saying hello to folks again.
quote:Originally posted by alanbarnes: Wasn't he on the Late Night Show with David Letterman a few years ago? He did Stupid Pet Tricks with a little dog, and it remided me of Humanities III twenty years ago. But he was nicer to the dog.
I had heard many grumblings about, and tributes to Dr. Talley from my peers at All Souls Unitarian Church that stoked my curiosity. I couldn't have cared less about theories of knowledge or humanities, but I took as many of his classes as I could cram into my two years at BTW. No homework, no pop quizzes, comfy sofas and daily roasts of fellow students and teachers--a senior's dream. We could never determine for sure whether he actually read our final essay exams or not, or for that matter, how we earned our final grades. I remember writing a rambling essay on burning buildings and oompaloompah rappers, just to find out if he was paying attention--my final grade was inconclusive. I did take his advice to study abroad in Florence, and later taught English there for a year. For his good humor and outstanding tutelage, we awarded him a 2-foot-long carp from Banfields.
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Not only did I have Talley for Humanities and Film History but I was also part of the group he took to Cambridge University in the summer of '75. We dormed at New House College with several other groups. All the other group teachers on board hated Talley because he gave them so much grief. He even made one of our female tour guides break down in tears, probably the low point of the trip. The high point was when Talley rented a small bus so we could go antique shopping in the Cotswald area. Talley bought several pieces and had us carry them on the plane home so he could avoid shipping costs. I think that was the whole point of the trip, anyway, not education but antiques. Personally, it was one of the high points of my life. We discovered Monty Python before most of America would and experienced Amsterdam's Red Light district. Thanks Talley, that was awesome.
Dr. Talley was a true eccentric, but he was also a good teacher. I learned a lot in his classes and I was with the group that went to Europe in 1975. I think that trip influenced by choice of careers, building livable cities, and I discovered that the rest of the world did not drive everywhere, but used transit, walked and biked. I also got to be the first kid on the tour to be pick-pocketed on the Paris subway! I was never bored in Talley's classes.
