ABSTRACT
This chapter presents two Egon Guba stories. The first is what the author learned from Egon's pedagogic style which was a sort of 'no style' of standing in front of large crowds many Indiana University (IU) professors as well as students, reading in a monotone from his latest manuscript, hardly looking up, seemingly unaware we were in the room. The second story is how he could be so wrong. He advised the author, early in his/her doctoral career, to NOT pursue a minor in Women's Studies, saying the author would be a marked woman and never get a job. The weight of Egon's work and presence in the field has opened up opportunities that perhaps he himself did not fully imagine. Of his time and more than it too, modeling what it means to be trained in one way of doing inquiry and moving into something quite different, he is both foundation and encouragement to go beyond.
