Evelyn Reiman
Ed Stack talks about working with Evelyn Reiman, director of student development.
Interview on 2011-04-26 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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Evelyn Reiman, who was the director of student development at the time,
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was a very good mentor for me.
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She and I--and I'll never forget it--
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when I graduated she gave me a picture, a painting, a print,
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and on the back of it she wrote--and it's not a verbatim quote--
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but she wrote something like, "I enjoyed learning that two people could have the same goal and approach it differently."
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That was sort of over the years that we were working together, particularly those last two years,
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politically, world views, she and I probably could not have been more different
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but at the end of the day we realized that we both had the same goal,
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and because I had one view of how we got somewhere
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did not make me a bad person because I was trying to get to the same place that she was trying to get, just from the opposite direction.
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So I felt like she and I both probably were able to learn something from each other,
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although I did a lot more learning from her than she did from me, that's for sure.
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But it was fun when we would get into these discussions and we would try to get somewhere
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and we would always start off at opposite spots, but it was never a contentious situation.
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We got along great and I thought over the two years that I was student body president that we had a very good relationship working together.
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