2014
"Calvin Remembers
Charles Young "
AND SO DO I
I have a strange story & memory about Charles Young . When I was a freshman at Calvin College in 1985 the way you would register for classes, pre-computers, was to walk through the phys-ed gymnasium and go from table to table; and the professors would sit there at the tables and sometimes chat with you and one of them, Charles Young, waved me over & encouraged me to sign up for his class Art History" .
This was a 300-level class if I recall correctly so I don't know why he was trying to talk me into taking his class which was mostly for art majors & later I found out was also known as one of the most difficult classes not only for art majors but in general. And I was not an art major and had no real interest in art, and it turned out to be a very difficult class- living up to its reputation because of the excessive amount of memorization required.
So I spent a lot of time memorizing famous parts of art from around the world and different types of columns and things like that and it was not necessary for me to take as an elective, so I don't know why he tried to talk me into it. It was dishonest of him. He made my first semester of my freshman year much more difficult & stressful than it should have been and I didn't do very well. I did pass fortunately but it could have been worse. And it was actually somewhat cruel of him to prey upon my naivety.
Rest-in-Peace
