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I had Dr. Kostolnyk in the spring of 1969
Damn, I didn’t realize he was that old. I had him 33 years after you did. I think I heard something about him passing away about a year ago.
Regarding the liberal prof, there were two possibilities. One I had taught U.S. history in the 20th century and was so anti-war that he didn’t want to teach WWII for some reason, so he turned over his class to a grad student who was hilarious and would tell graphic stories of Japanese troops getting massacred by alligators and stuff. The guys were night and day. Then when it came to Vietnam, several Vietnam vets came to class and heckled him.
Another liberal prof, though not as bad was named Borstin or Borstein or something along those lines. I had him for history of the west from Greece to Charlemagne. That was a great class despite his liberal nature. I mostly remember it because my study partner was Corey Pullig’s cousin, who was smokin’ hot.
The reason she approached me and with these hot, come hither eyes asked if I would tutor her is that I was the only one in class who passed a quiz. In fact, I was the only person in class who didn’t get a zero. Reveille, who was in the class, probably could have scored better than some of these folks. There were only 4 questions on the quiz:
1. What language was the Old Testament written in? Hebrew
2. What language did Jesus speak? Aramaic
3. What language was the New Testament written in? Greek
4. (One other I can’t remember).
Another test story from my freshman year: It was intro to U.S. History. The first test blew everybody out of the water. This was one of those classes with 200 people. All but five people failed, and I was the only grade over a C. I got a 98.
So the prof calls me out and proceeds to put me on the spot and asks what advice I can give everybody on studying and how to prepare.
With everybody staring at me, which made me very nervous, I had to admit that I had not studied and hadn’t even opened the books. “I just know this stuff,” I said. The rest of the class people thought I was a jackass, which bothered me at the time, but which is kind of funny now. I predicted Texags by a decade.
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Is Reese a really tall guy who specialized in Nazi Germany history?
Football, I think Dr. Krammer is the only guy who taught Nazi Germany.
A story I had forgotten about Krammer:
I was a Journalism/German major at A&M (the same two as Lyle Lovett, incidentally). So in my second senior year
I went to Germany and took classes at the University of Tuebingen for a year. Since they don’t teach Journalism in college over there and I had finished all of my required German classes at A&M, I basically took an entire year of electives. I took one Poly Sci class that filled an A&M requirement, and my second linguistics (needed for German), but the rest was just fun. So I took a TON of History classes.
One day, while walking down the street in this little town, I run smack into Dr. Krammer. Turns out that the schools have a prof exchange as well as a student exchange program. Dr. Krammer had taken semester off at A&M to come teach over there. He recognized me right away because I was one of the most outspoken students in his Nazi Germany class the year before. So I asked him what classes he was teaching and he told me. I signed up for “The History of German-Americans” which turned out to be a great class. For my research paper, I wrote about German immigration to Texas.
I actually kept up with him for a while after school, but after time lost contact.