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February 18, 2000
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Volume 7, Number 11 |
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GENERAL |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITORLambi remembered again
To the editor: Regarding Sigrid Eyre’s letter to the editor ( On Campus News, February 4, 2000 ) concerning Professor Ivo Lambi who passed away recently, I too remember Ivo with great fondness and respect. When completing my undergraduate and graduate degrees in history in the ’70s I took every class he taught. He also supervised my Master’s thesis. Ivo was a brilliant, caring teacher who infected students with his enthusiasm for history. It is indicative of the kind of support he gave that when I had completed the penultimate draft of my PhD thesis, he read it and gave me feedback within three days, even though I was doing the PhD at another university. If only my supervisor had been equally diligent. The affection his students felt for him was evident at his funeral when I ran into many people I hadn’t seen since the 1970s, all former students who 25 years later came to pay their respects for Professor Lambi. However, I must remark on a small error (perhaps the editor’s?) in Sigrid Eyre’s letter that Ivo would surely have mentioned. It’s not Bismark, but Bismarck. I remember once in Ivo’s 300-level course on German history when we were discussing a student’s paper. Ivo gave the student a wry smile, stroked his beard in his characteristic way, and commented: "There is one spelling error we do not allow in my class. It is Bismarck, with a c, not Bismark." Bob Cram Editor’s Note: Bob Cram is quite right – it was an editor’s mistake! In the letter to the editor from Sigrid Eyre entitled "‘Ideal’ prof. Ivo Lambi remembered" , Feb. 4 On Campus News, p.4, we inadvertently mis-copied her letter and misspelled Otto von Bismarck, as Bismark, omitting the "c". In fact, Eyre spelled it correctly, as Bismarck. On Campus News apologizes for the error.
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