Biography of fred gottheil
Fred M. Gottheil is a professor of economics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign....
Fred Monroe Gottheil died at home in Urbana on April 17, after a several month-long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Fred Gottheil, Illinois Renaissance, was a popular and nationally respected economics professor at the University of Illinois, where he taught for more than 50 years.
He enjoyed telling stories in class and frequently peppered his lectures with anecdotes to bring real-world significance to abstract economic concepts. Occasionally, he even talked about his late son, Josh, who died of cancer at the age of 19.
Many years after his son’s death, Gottheil accepted an invitation to have dinner with a group of young men who weren’t much older than Josh had been.
A few SigEp brothers from the Illinois Chapter were enrolled in Gottheil’s Introduction to Economics course and invited him to their chapter house for dinner. That first evening went so well that more invitations quickly followed, and Gottheil eventually became the chapter’s faculty adviser.
A bond formed between Gottheil and the brothers that went beyond that of the typical teacher-student relationship.
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