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Retiring history prof looks back at 41-year tenure at A&M
By Sam Scott
K. After 41 years of teaching his-
r tory, professor Arnold Kram-
mer has shaped it as well, affecting
the lives of thousands of students.
Even now, as he retires this year,
commemorated with a surprise
send-off celebration Thursday, his
fire for teaching remains.
“I have lots of things that I take
into class, all kinds of historical
items and things like that,” Kram-
mer said. “When I put this in a
student’s hands, many times I’ll see
the light, and he’ll say ‘This really
took place didn’t it?’ Yes, it did.
And I’ve got you.”
As he gave his last lecture Thurs
day, friends, family, colleagues and
students burst into the room. At
the event, history professors R.J.Q.
Adams, Chester Dunning and Ter
ry Anderson spoke briefly and pre
sented Krammer with a certificate
lauding his accomplished career as
well as his devotion to the students
at Texas A&M.
The event was planned and car
ried out by Adams and Chester
Dunning, two colleagues and long
time friends of Krammer’s in the
Department of History.
Adams was hired into the De
partment of History in 1974 and
shared 41 years alongside Kram
mer, while Dunning was hired by
the search committee on which
Krammer sat in 1979.
“Those of us who’ve known
him for 30 or 40 years decided that
there needed to be a little bit more
of a send off after 41 years for an
incredibly wonderful lecturer who
has taught more than 20,000 stu
dents,” Dunning said. “[Krammer]
is deeply beloved and deserved a
little bit of pizazz and not just a
handshake and goodbye.”
As an accomplished author,
Krammer has written more than
a dozen books and over 50 peer-
reviewed articles over such his
torical issues as the world wars and
Nazi Germany — yet teaching has
always remained a top priority for
him.
An important consideration in
teaching and learning history is re
membering the mistakes of the past
so as to ensure they’re not repeated,
Krammer said.
“If I tell you that this third step
outside in the staircase out here
is loose and that everybody who
has stepped on that third stair has
slipped and fallen, that’s valuable
information for you to know since
we’re all taking the same staircase
in life,” Krammer said. “So by
teaching you history I can show
you where all the mistakes were
made. Why should you make the
same mistakes?”
While several professors in
the Department of History have
won the University Distinguished
Tcaching Award, Krammer is a part
of the select few to have won the
distinction twice, Dunning said.
“Only 2 percent of the faculty
since 1955 have won the Univer
sity Level Distinguished Teaching
Award — 2 percent — and then
only 2 percent of those have ever
won it twice,” Dunning said.
Krammer said the event was a
tightly-kept secret and an absolute
surprise, leaving him completely
perplexed.
“I was just left speechless. It’s
not often that a history professor, at
least me, is left speechless,” Kram
mer said. “First I was bewildered, I
was just taken aback, all of a sudden
all of my friends and all of my col
leagues poured in.”
The surprise left Krammer emo
tionally overwhelmed and thank
ful for his fortunate time at Texas
A&M.
“I was in tears, and so were some
of the professors around me ... re
ally, it was wonderful. You know.
Valeri© Gunchick — THE BATTALION
Long-time history professor Arnold Krammer received a surprise
send-off Thursday on his last day of teaching before he retires.
if you’ve got to leave, it’s a bit
tersweet moment,” Krammer said.
“But to do it with such acclaim, it
was just breathtaking, it really was.
Now that he is retiring, Kram
mer said he hopes to travel and to
tackle a number of projects, includ
ing writing a book about American
intolerance during World War II
and another about the Mexican-
Nazi party.
“We will travel, and I’ll write.
I have about four projects backed
up and now I’ll suddenly have the
time to do them,” Krammer said.
“Hopefully I will have plenty of
things to do. I’ll miss my students
like crazy, and the faculty mem
bers.”
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