Donald Warner, second from right, sitting with the other three Macalester history professors of 1956. See larger photo »Warner's Modern Amercian History
I was not that interested in History, but other students at Mac told me to take Modern American History from Professor Donald Warner. What an exciting teacher and class! He really began a life llong interest in history for me. Other memorable teachers were Max Adams and Professor Word. We had such a variety of teachers who stimulated our minds. Great Education.
- Gladys Carothers Blossfeld
The Magical Reaction
Prof. E. Stanley Jones gave a lecture on evoluation the first year I was at Mac. His totally logical explanation of a creative God has never left me! I will paraphrase: What takes more creative imagination - a pin-pong table filled w/ ping-pong balls; when one from the outside gets dropped into the hundreds, it sets off a reaction which continues in a magical way. Or, a God who just creates a BIG BANG and leaves us all in a quandry as to how all these wonderful things happened? I had always believed in evoltuion, but I could never explain why I believed it. This explanation has never left me.
- Jolyn Clark Taylor
Eating dinner at the Lichtensteins’
I remember what a lovely man Dr. Lichtenstein was
and what a story he had to tell us! He and his wife escaped
from the Nazis when he was a lawyer in Germany. They only
brought what they could carry and a small pair of silver candle
sticks. They and their son and daughter walked over the mountains
and into Switzerland where they eventually came to America.
How they got to Macalester, I don’t have a clue. We
had several absolutely lovely meals, very European and elegant,
in their little home near Mac. Whenever I think of the Holocaust,
I think of them.
- Jolyn Clark Taylor
