I consider myself most fortunate in that mentors played pivotal roles at every turning point in my intellectual and career development from collage onwards. At Brooklyn College the historian Donald Gerardi and the sociologist Roberta Satow fostered and nurtured my intellectual curiosity at higher levels of education. At Iowa State University, Hamilton Cravens and Harold Sharlin furthered that development, as did Arthur Mann, Lynn Vogel, Frank Breul, and Donnell Pappenfort, among others, at the University of Chicago. It’s difficult to…..
