"Funny and enthusiastic"

My roommate and I (Government majors, ’61) were in the first class [Lowi] taught at Cornell. I believe my roommate and I took all three courses in our senior year.

I remember him, as well as you can remember anything at 78, as cute (forgive the term, that's from the perspective of the 1960s); young (he was only seven years older than the rest of us; one friend had a “crush” on him); funny and enthusiastic.... In those “good old days,” we didn’t have TVs and, can you imagine, we had to get our parents’ permission (at age 20!) to go someplace overnight if it was off campus. A good friend had about 10 of us [over] -- a mix of Democrats and Republicans; naturally the Democrats yelled and screamed while the Republicans were very prim and proper -- over to her brother’s farm to watch the election returns.... Professor Lowi, as we addressed our instructors then, stopped by and spent a couple hours yelling and screaming with the you-know-whos.

Nancy Blankenstein

College of Arts and Sciences

Cornell Class of 1961