Linfield College Professor Peter Richardson was featured in articles in the News-Register and The Oregonian for being named Oregon Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Richardson teaches German — and introduction to life. So many students have sunk into a worn, wooden rocker in his office they wore out the bottom. He lugged in another.
“Students sit there, rocking furiously back and forth thinking about the things students have to think about,” Richardson said.
“In my last semester I spent two hours a week in that chair,” said Linfield graduate Daniel Clausen, who still remembers singing German folk songs in class. “I learned as much about life as I did about the German language.”