I actually got to know Neal after we graduated Mumford. As Freshman at U of M where we often ate dinner together in South Quad and discussed such weighty matters as the latest way that someone had figured out how to blow up a dormatory toilet with Sodium they had smuggled out of chemistry lab or the latest panty raid on the hill.
Many years later, I came to know Neal as a trusted and venerated colleague in the Department of Psychiatry at Univ. of Mich. Medical School, where he was a Professor of Child Psychology, a nationally recognized researcher, author and respected clinician. Being an adult psychiatrist myself, I always felt a sense of relief when I had a particulary troublesome case of an adolescent or child relative of one of my patients and could get them in to see Neal. He was so good and so steady and so competent.
In addition, he was one of the most universally loved members of the faculty. Throughout the years... even before his untimely death I cannot recall his name ever being brought up in conversation without someone saying " What a nice guy!"
Dr. Stephen Landau
I actually got to know Neal after we graduated Mumford. As Freshman at U of M where we often ate dinner together in South Quad and discussed such weighty matters as the latest way that someone had figured out how to blow up a dormatory toilet with Sodium they had smuggled out of chemistry lab or the latest panty raid on the hill.Many years later, I came to know Neal as a trusted and venerated colleague in the Department of Psychiatry at Univ. of Mich. Medical School, where he was a Professor of Child Psychology, a nationally recognized researcher, author and respected clinician. Being an adult psychiatrist myself, I always felt a sense of relief when I had a particulary troublesome case of an adolescent or child relative of one of my patients and could get them in to see Neal. He was so good and so steady and so competent.
In addition, he was one of the most universally loved members of the faculty. Throughout the years... even before his untimely death I cannot recall his name ever being brought up in conversation without someone saying " What a nice guy!"
He is greatly missed by all who who knew him.
Steve Landau