embering ownership in Russia were main themes in the field, David’s work on Stolypin, for the second time, took on great significance. It also led to David’s remarkable scholarly productivity from the early 1990s until his untimely death. Perhaps David’s greatest legacy at the College, and one from which future generations of Middlebury students will benefit, was his visionary work as our director of
off-campus study from 1995 to 2006. He oversaw the growth in our Schools Abroad from five Schools in five cities (all in Europe) to today’s eight Schools at more than 30 locations, including sites throughout Latin America, China, and Egypt. He was a firm believer in having students fully immerse themselves in the language and culture of the country in which they studied, because, he argued, by “getting into the culture” in every
way possible, they learned about their hosts, but also so much about themselves and their own culture. But it will be David’s sense of loyalty to his friends that translated into a desire to help others, be it the students in his class whom he relished teaching, or the new faculty member David so often befriended and mentored, that will be missed most. L
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