reveling to me, even another country, with its complex problems in the un- happy context made by the Molotov – Ribbentrop pact and the dictate of Vi- enna. When I read the interesting volume published in 1946 by the Commer- cial Academy (today’s Academy of Economic Sciences) regarding the analy- sis of complex relations between the cities and the surrounding spaces an- other dimension of geography was reveled to me, the practical one about which I knew few things. Suddenly the city seemed a living organism, with dynamics influenced by the surrounding space closer of further, space which is on its turn modeled depending on its requests. This is why, after some time I had to choose a theme for the doctorate paper I proposed the professor the theme “The sub-urbanism as geographic phenomenon in Romania”. The professor accepted it immediately reminding me that the theme is one of the most difficult but he trusted I would make a beautiful paper. I did not know then that its gestation would last more than normal; the professor did not rush me, leaving me the movement independ- ence, convinced that I “would do a great job”. And this is how it’s been, the thesis presented being appreciated with “summa cum laude”. I thank even now the professor for the patience he had in following and directing the elabo- ration of this thesis. It manuscript with the observations of the professor I keep in place of honor in my personal library. The life in the department, me – the youngest member, the professor –
its leader, showed and highlighted the professor’s complex personality. I, as a student, first observed – for the beginning – the most common aspects of the department’s “kitchen”. Only the ones who passed through all the didactical steps know how many activities, otherwise small but necessary, involved the life of a department; situations, reports, papers to the management of the fac- ulty or directly to the rector’s office, all these with specified themes. In this context I noticed and learned another side of the professor, in fact the materi- alization of seriousness, of the thing made well regardless of the field. He used to redact, with his calligraphic writing, answers to different requests of the dean’s office, he used to draw up situations (most of them routine), he led with tact the work meetings (department collectives, other reunions of the sec- tion of economic geography) and imposed responsibility from the other mem- bers of the department. In May 1970 appeared the occasion of a training stage (one month) in the University of Iasi, the professor suggesting I should know the activity of the collective of geographers in the capital of Moldavia where he had spent the years as a student and training as a young geographer. I joyfully ac- cepted, Iasi being the city in which, in 1968, took place the distribution of the graduates and I had obtained the function of preparatory / assistant in stage at our faculty. It had been a wonderful experience, full of teachings regarding the geographical school of Iasi. I had been received with great understanding by the professors I. Gugiuman (who was dean by then), Gh. Nastase (about whom I found out he had been one of the participants to the meeting that de-
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