HOW PROFESSOR SCHAEFER TAUGHT LAW.
HOW PROFESSOR SCHAEFER TAUGHT LAW. Kids, you may be wondering about your uncle’s teaching was like at William and Mary Law School. I think he relied primarily on the Socratic Method, and I know that rather than using a seating chart to call on students, he used a deck of file cards so that students were called on randomly. I surmise that, although a kindly man, because of the Socratic Method, he did create fear in his students. I say this because I worked with one of his former students, Joe Moan, and Joe claimed that for the first few months we worked together, he had a moment of disquiet whenever he ran into me. I also know that there had been a time when Joe Moan portrayed Professor Schaefer when the students made fun of the professors at the William and Mary libel night and that the next day when Professor Schaefer walked into class, he announced that for that day every card in the deck had Joe Moan’s name on it.
Perhaps there’s some symbolic significance in the surname “Moan?”
In Toledo, there was a lawyer named Moan with an office across the street from a surgeon named Boggus. Think of that. We also have a local urologist named Dick (Richard) Tapper.
But more to the point, your post demands a rejoinder from one Elmer John Schaefer!