Dave,
It is with great sadness that I found out about Dr Workman. I had him for a Humanities course, and he was one of a couple of instructors that encouraged me to go through Architectural couses at Iowa State. Although I am not a practicing architect, but still an Engineer for Ryko Manufacturing, a carwash company, I remember taking an architectural tour through Wisconsin to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and the House On The Rock. It helped me decide to go into Architecture classes.
It is somewhat a fitting coincendence that I write you this message from Paris (my wife and I are here on holiday with some friends from England), since I probably would not have had the chance to travel internationally if it hadn’t been for instructors like Dr Workman who encouraged us all to follow our dreams to the ends of the earth. I would bet quite a few of us have traveled the world using lessons learned in Dr Workman’s Humanities class. He enjoyed architecuture, art and cultural. He made you research different aspects of a culture (even before the internet made it possible to easily research and map out your destination).
I will always remember Dr Workman. I had always hoped he could come back to a class reunion, like some of the other instructors have. He helped me have the courage to discover the world (the little I have seen of it).
Mark Ferguson