LETTERS
the library at the far end of the quad —
and played Taps as I had never before heard
it nor will hear it played again. Our own
tears prevented us from seeing those of
others. The small gathering dispersed quietly accompanied only by the few muffled,
solemn drums, which guided the retreating
cadets as they slowly marched away, into
the fading autumn sunlight.
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2009). I had the privilege of taking several
of Steiner’s honors
seminars. The most
timely was certainly a
European politics
seminar in the fall of
1989. It’s pretty hard
to beat the fall of the
Berlin Wall as a his-
toric backdrop for the subject matter. I recall
that he gave his students the opportunity to
help him proofread a new edition of his
book on European democracies. His analysis
of how smoothly different countries in East-
ern Europe might transition to democratic
governments proved prophetic in the decade
that followed. Steiner showed an incredible
passion for his field and his students that has
obviously carried into his “retirement.”
Eric Wagnon ’ 92
Oak Park, Ill.
the January/February
issue was incorrect.
The V- 12 program
was one of several
Navy programs at
UNC during World
War II, but the preflight school on
campus was known
as the V- 5 program.
A Passion for Teaching
That Spans Decades
I was not surprised to read the news that
political science Professor Jurg Steiner is
teaching pro bono after his retirement in
“After Their Last Lectures, Retired Faculty
Offer Encores” (November/December
Correction
A reference to the “Navy’s V- 12 pre-
flight training program” in a story about
former basketball coach Ben Carnevale in
Clarification
Bob Madry ’ 63 noted in a letter in the
November/December issue that he had
always believed his father, Robert Wilson
Madry, class of 1918, had been the first
director of UNC’s News Bureau. He is
correct: Madry became the bureau’s first
director in 1918. He left for service in
World War I and returned to his job at the
bureau in 1923. The Review ’s report in
September/October about the history of
journalism at UNC reported that in 1921
Louis Graves was appointed professor of
journalism and head of the News Bureau;
the report was not intended to indicate
that Graves was the first to hold that post.
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