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Saturday, 14 of July , 2007 @ 3:24 am
Dr. Fredegusto David, a respected and well-loved Psychology professor in my university, passed away yesterday after suffering a stroke the day before. The students, especially the seniors, and our professors mourned the loss of a great professor, friend and colleague. The people who knew him cried, and for us who only saw him around school couldn’t help feeling the loss. Soon after, it started to rain. Palma Hall Annex was uncharacteristically gloomy and quiet that afternoon.
He was quite old; when most people fifteen years his junior are probably retired, Sir David was still on the go, being the one and only professor who taught Psychology 160 lecture (Biopsychology). Rumors of his retirement come next semester made the seniors clamor for a slot in his classes. My senior friends told me that, in spite of his notoriously difficult exams, his classes were the only class they looked forward to in this otherwise listless semester.
I was never his student, since Psych 160 is a senior class. But the Psychology department is rather tight-knit, so we all knew each other one way or another. It’s not easy to miss Sir David - he’s that short, bald guy who smiles a lot, all the time. And I mean all the time. My friends and I found it amazing how someone could be so cheerful.
His students were even planning to surprise him with cake and balloons on his birthday next month. They told me he joked a lot about his death, that he would say how he doesn’t have friends, that he was just discussing comas in class… I don’t know if any of these are true, but the stories I heard about Sir David were enough to make me wish I knew what he was like, as a professor and mentor.
I was told he wasn’t too big on God and religion, but he believed in souls. When one is remembered after his death, he said, that person has a soul.
I don’t think Dr. David will have any problems with that.
Category: College
7 Comments
Comment by ian
Made Saturday, 14 of July , 2007 at 10:25 am
he’s a great guy. he’ll surely be missed.
*sigh*
Comment by Tiffany
Made Sunday, 15 of July , 2007 at 10:32 am
you wrote a very nice entry, dads… i’ve never met him but i feel his greatness.
Comment by bea
Made Monday, 16 of July , 2007 at 6:01 am
nakakalungkot na hindi na natin siya naabutan. 
Comment by Xiao
Made Friday, 20 of July , 2007 at 6:35 am
Kameeting lang namin si Sir F.G. David for the dean selection. I never really knew him but I dropped by the necrological service sa PHAN (on-going pa ngayon as I write this. Dami nagmamahal sa kanya. Condolence sa inyong mga taga-Psych. Napakaganda at dinadangal ninyo ang mga matatanda. Di katulad sa…
Comment by roxy 02-49656
Made Saturday, 4 of August , 2007 at 11:53 pm
I was a student of Sir David in Psych 160 and 210. Just knew of his death yesterday.. I was and still devastated. I must say he was my favorite professor. He was a great professor. He blended science with philosophy, Darwin with Aristotle, experiments with poetry. How he did it? I don’t know. But I am certain he did it with the excellence, the mastery, the passion that only he can have. As you’ve said, he talked about his death. One time he vividly explained how he should like to die. He’d go to UP Arboretum with a shovel in hand and dig up a hole, which will serve as his own grave. I am sorry I’m telling you all this, it’s just that I deeply unsure if this is all real. I can’t imagine him gone. I took a year off of my MA but before that I told sir David that I am interested in pursuing physiological psychology. I never told him it was largely because of him. I never told him a lot of things (like how I feel like crying during his lectures), never asked him questions I think I should have (like why he preferred Tolstoy over Dostoevsky). I wrote a poem about him in my senior year, I never had the courage to give it to him most probably because he was an English lit undergrad and I felt insecure of my writing. There is heaviness in my chest. Thank you for this release Marielli.
Comment by floyd
Made Friday, 10 of August , 2007 at 12:08 am
thanks for the write up on Dr. David I also wrote one for him too.
Shine on!
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