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Professor Frye remembered as supportive teacher

Thank you for your article on Bob Frye. He is truly a great professor and his retirement is a loss to TCU. I had Dr. Frye for my freshman honors English course in 1992. I will never forget attending fall convocation that year — about three weeks into the course — and seeing him receive the Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. I couldn’t believe that as a freshman I was learning from one of the best professors on campus.

Under his direction, I saw my writing improve and I was encouraged by the personal attention he gave. He recommended that I submit one of my papers to the annual writing contest, and he also nominated me to be a tutor for the Writing Center. Thus, through my one class with Dr. Frye, I won a writing contest, found a campus job for several years and nurtured an interest in reading and writing that has continued well beyond my graduation.

When I came back to TCU as an employee in 2000, I ran into Dr. Frye and I was pleased to see that he still remembered me. More astonishing, he remembered my hometown and the name and topic of my paper that won the writing contest. I’m afraid to say that I don’t remember many of the books that we read in that class, but I will always remember the kindness, supportiveness and inspiration of Dr. Bob Frye.

— Tracy Rundstrom Williams, class of 1996, study abroad coordinator