![]() ![]() Putnam Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Like most people, I knew Raboteau as a consummate scholar and critical thinker, the Henry W. Read our latest issue or browse back issues. But undergraduates come and go swiftly, most of them an indistinguishable mass of names and faces.Īt the coffee shop, the first thing he said to me was, “Call me Al.” But that was one thing I could never do-not even when I received news of his death last month, and not even as I remember with these few words the impact he had on generations of students. ![]() You get to know your doctoral students, those you are guiding into the profession, those you plan to welcome as colleagues after a long apprenticeship. Raboteau agreed to meet, although I was sure he did not remember me, given the number of undergraduate students most college professors teach over a lifetime. ![]() ![]() Could we please meet for coffee? With his trademark kindness, Dr. As I explained in the email I sent a week earlier, I had recently moved back to Princeton to take a faculty position, and I was a former undergraduate student of his. Albert Raboteau’s meeting with me in 2007 was out of professional obligation. ![]()
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