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Some Random Memories from My Years with Charle Bryce “Chick” Perrow (Feb. 9. 1925 – November 12, 2019).. On the occasion of a memorial service, spring, 2020. Written in 2020 and updated on May 23, 2025, after my visit to the Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville, North Carolina.

I met Chick when he presented a seminar at the University of Michigan back in the mid-1960s. I kept in touch with him through occasional letters and meetings at regional, national, and international conferences over the next six decades. How does one encapsulate all those years with just a few observations? I’ve chosen to pick out a few things that came immediately to mind when I thought about what the world has lost.

Chick Perrow holding forth on a panel
Chick always had something to say & he said it well

To start, he’s indirectly responsible for the intellectual turn I took in read more