A number of weeks ago I received an e-mail from my alma mater stating that one of my professors,?Dr. Kyong Kim, was retiring. They were inviting all of his past students to attend a reception in his honor on campus. I had planned to make the trip back over to Ohio and see him one last time.
He taught a number of the communication classes I worked through in my pursuit of a Bachelor of Arts in Communication. He was a great teacher, extremely intelligent and very entertaining in class. He was a short little Korean guy, but oddly enough had a huge stature about him. He talked with a strong accent, which considering he was a communication professor always struck me as funny. There are a number of great stories about some of his phrases in class and statements that were made that didn’t come out quite right, but I’ll refrain from sharing them here. One of the odd challenges I had in his class was that for the first few weeks of the semester, I could NEVER stay awake. I’ve got pages of notes where my pen would trail off from a series of words into a then line across the page as I would nod off. However, after those first few weeks, for some reason I’d always perk up and be absolutely attentive the rest of the semester.
Getting back to the reason of this post, he responded back to me thanking me for the note to him and congratulations on his retirement. I had asked him what some of his plans were with all of his new free time, and in his letter back to me he stated he was pursuing the life of Grandma Moses and picking up painting. He attached some of his artwork, which I’m sharing below, and as you can see, I believe he’s got some great works ahead of him still.
ben says
wow. i knew he loved art, but I had no idea his hand was THAT good. I was traveling to Vegas during his retirement party. You can't change the date of other's weddings (and my wife was in it, so i HAD to be there), so I missed one for the other.
bnpositive says
Yep, you were my Kyong Klass buddy! You and I were his "Rhittle Angehrs".
ben says
wow. i knew he loved art, but I had no idea his hand was THAT good. I was traveling to Vegas during his retirement party. You can’t change the date of other’s weddings (and my wife was in it, so i HAD to be there), so I missed one for the other.
bnpositive says
Yep, you were my Kyong Klass buddy! You and I were his “Rhittle Angehrs”.