I wish I had known him

It always surprised his undergraduates to learn that their professor was sitting in on other professors' classes. "Why would he do that?" they would ask me in office hours or section. That was one question I had no trouble answering. Julian knew the value of starting over, not in order to get somewhere new, but in order to learn more about the places he had been before. It takes courage to be that open to the past. It takes even more to find the future within it. Julian did both, brightening thousands of live in the process. If we can follow him on that journey, we will show him the honor he so richly deserves."