Chapter 16: Not a Mind Reader

Roger Bibace is a very young man—even at the age of 89. When I arrived for my job interview at Clark University in 1995, he was the person most eager to talk with me and not about trivialities—we discussed interesting ideas about which he was passionate. I felt at home in a context like this—looking for intellectually rich academic surroundings was a find one could appreciate 20 years ago in Jonas Clark Hall.

The first encounter was only the beginning. During all my years at that small university with big traditions in psychology of the United States, I could enjoy Roger’s support, appreciation for the ambience of our collective searches for new solutions in the “kitchen seminars,”² and even taking care of my personal welfare.² Roger is a deeply caring human being who is humble about his own contributions to psychology. Now—in 2015—he is perhaps more frail in health, but as youthful in his curiosity about the human mind as he was two decades ago. Age for sure takes its toll on the body, but the inquisitive mind stays.