Dennis,

 I remember him well. Freshman chem and I got along all right. I believe I may still have class notes, somewhere. At that point in my academic career I was still rather conscientious. I don’t believe I missed many of Doc’s lectures. He was awfully good and terribly entertaining. The attendance did tend to lag as the year went. Until his alcohol lecture. Fisher lecture hall was packed.

John Stevens

Okay, John, I’ve got to hear this story!

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Hi Dennis I had Doc Berry for a Chem Graduate class in the late 70s in the Chem-Met building. He would lecture with a lit cigarette in his hand and wave his hands around and the ash would not fall off. He would often set the lit cigarette down on the big desk up front, forget he had one lit already, and lite up another cigarette. I was so distracted from the lecture by watching for the ashes to fall from his lit cigarettes, which never did fall, that I didn’t get many notes from the class!

Connie Julien, MTU 1974, 78, 86