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](https://i0.wp.com/howardaldrich.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/images.jpg?resize=310%2C163&ssl=1)
To start, he’s indirectly responsible for the intellectual turn I took in