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17 J. Legal Stud. Educ. [i] (1999)

handle is hein.journals/jlse17 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITOR'S CORNER: THE CRAFT OF TEACHING Butler University and I lost two good friends this year. Although neither was a member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, nor even a legal studies professor, the loss of both caused me to think a lot about what it takes to be a good teacher' and what it takes to build a good life. Professor Archie Nichols died on April 8, 1999, at the age of 76, after an extended bout with cancer. Although his academic training was in the fields of insurance and economics, he taught virtually everything within the College of Business during his 40 years at Butler, including legal studies.' Archie was a professor's professor. He was one of the most intelligent and literate people that I have ever encountered. He stopped by a bookstore or a Salvation Army or Goodwill thrift store almost every day on the way to work and arrived loaded down with books. The clerks in the various stores loved him and would save him titles that they thought he would find interesting. If it was a title that he already had, he would buy it anyway-if the price was right-and give it to someone else who would like it or benefit from it. My kids became the beneficiaries of a near mint set of the Encyclopedia Britannica that one of the thrift shops had put aside for Archie. All of the students who stopped by his office left with a book in their hands and the injunctions to keep it and read it. He read all the books himself and took detailed notes in a precise hand on stacks of yellow pads. He shared the range of his ideas and his learning with students and faculty alike. One of my earliest memories of Archie was coming into his office one day as he sat hunched over an English grammar and style handbook taking notes. When he noticed me, he enthused: This book has some great stuff in it. I can't wait to tell my students about it. When I naively inquired what English grammar had to do with economics, the course that he was teaching that semester, he drew himself up in his seat and said haughtily: I am not teaching students about ECONOMICS, I am teaching students about LIFE, and what it takes to succeed at it. He constantly prodded students and faculty to free themselves from their sloth, ignorance and indifference. His constant prodding, together with the challenges of his ideas and example, helped save some students and faculty from those sins. He will be long remembered by those whose lives he touched. I These thoughts can be viewed as a minor postscript to the thoughtful article by several great teachers, John J. Bonsignore et al., Toward the Definition of a Great Teacher, 14 J. LEGAL STUD. EDUC. 103 (1996), which should be required reading for all members of the Academy. 2 See Obituary, INDIANAPOuS STAR, April 10, 1999, at B6.

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