I was your student in the late 1960s. You were the best lecturer I had in my post-graduate studies at Columbia, Missouri. You opened my mind and changed me forever.

I was one of Robert's students at the University of Missouri-Columbia during my doctoral studies there 1968-1971. He was a symbolic interactionist and I an exchange theorist (to his mild...

I do remember one afternoon I spent with Prof. Perinbanayagam, in Dec 1982, with lunch included at his then apartment, when I was visiting New York, from Illinois. Now at age 72, I do consider that...

Robert and I were graduate students in Sociology at the University of Minnesota from 1962 to 1965. We shared an office during those years and developed a friendship that lasted six decades. He was...

I am so, so sorry and sad to learn of Robert's passing. I worked with him as a volunteer through Dorot -- he was the kindest person and I feel so lucky to have been able to meet him. We had lunch...