{"id":1962,"date":"2010-05-31T10:42:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2010-05-31T11:27:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T18:27:01","slug":"on-may-31st-2010-professor-richard-schoenwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2010\/05\/31\/on-may-31st-2010-professor-richard-schoenwald\/","title":{"rendered":"On May 31st, 2010, PROFESSOR RICHARD SCHOENWALD…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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letters from Professor Richard Schoenwald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…taught a class called “Society and the Arts” which I took during my third year of undergraduate architecture studies at Carnegie Mellon University – he would make a point of personally visiting the shows and installations of his students – and then surprise each with a typed letter of detailed, thoughtful, encouraging responses to the work (I particularly remember this installation with plants<\/a> that I had created in the central hall of the College of Fine Arts which he was especially enthusiastic about) – and today I am sorting and storing various artifacts including all of my old letters – especially numerous from my days living in Italy pre-email when all correspondence was hand-written on paper – and I’m coming across many letters from Professor Schoenwald, including one that I received just days before his death in 1995 – and another particularly thoughtful and encouraging letter dated December 3rd, 1992, just months after my graduation, in which he responds to to an apparent crisis of direction I was experiencing at the time:<\/p>\n

“I hope the disorientation will lessen. You live in a world with so many choices, and also the feeling that one must have, not just a vocation, but a perfect vocation. I remember all too well my own attacks of thinking I wanted to go to med school, once when I was out and teaching and married with a baby. The attacks passed, not without some regrets from time to time in later years, and now, after such a long while, I can finally think to myself, I am able to do what my teachers did for me, which is what I always wanted to – I come into class and I open things up. It’s like a dream, but now without the if’s, and’s, but’s.”<\/em><\/p>\n

(classmate Eric Heiman also recorded his Schoenwald memories here<\/a> a few years ago)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…taught a class called “Society and the Arts” which I took during my third year of undergraduate architecture studies at Carnegie Mellon University – he would make a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[395,80,1735,394,396],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-carnegie-mellon-university","tag-college","tag-education","tag-letters","tag-richard-schoenwald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}