Julian B. Rotter

RIP in pepperoni

Those of us who were privileged to study under Dr. Rotter will always remember him with a great deal of fondness and more than a little awe.

i just read about your the your theory, and i am so amazed about your ideas, I hope I will present it good in my class,

A wonderful psychologist

Gitahi Kanyeki

I recall Professor Rotter with fondness for the helpful man he was and awe at his insightful yet methodical mind. He may not have claimed me as an advisee or mentee during my UConn years but he was certainly a mentor to me! Don Round, PhD

Thank you Jules. You were more than a mentor to me. Much love, Reaume Carroll Mulry, Ph.D.

My condolences to the family of Dr. Rotter and especially to his wife, Doffie, with whom my own graduate career at UCONN overlapped. Julian was one of those rare people who routinely made those around him better than they thought they could ever be. He was a "Master" professor whose style if instruction was as important as the content, and who thereby provided me with a model that served as the basis for my own academic career.

I had Dr. Rotter for Test Construction as a graduate student in the late '90s. What a great teacher, great scholar and funny guy. My students are delighted when I tell them that one of my teachers is the guy cited in their textbook! My sympathy to the family.

Jules was an enormous influence on both my thinking about Psychology and my own style of classroom teaching. He was a professor in the true sense of the word. He professed! There was little doubt about where he stood on basic issues but he always supported his views wih logic and with data.

Although I was not one of his graduate students, the two courses I took with him remain memorable.

On a personal level, he personified the label "mentsch"