{"id":15347,"date":"2017-08-30T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/30\/for-46-years-rudolph-nunnemacher-taught-biology-at-clark-with-rare-style\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:30:53","slug":"for-46-years-rudolph-nunnemacher-taught-biology-at-clark-with-rare-style","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/30\/for-46-years-rudolph-nunnemacher-taught-biology-at-clark-with-rare-style\/","title":{"rendered":"For 46 years, Rudolph Nunnemacher taught biology at Clark with rare style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

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Professor Rudolph Nunnemacher emerged from his office carrying the lens of a whale\u2019s eye. The electricity to the biology building was temporarily out of service, and he had just the remedy to brighten the darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He said to me, \u2018Come watch this,\u2019 remembers Michael Rosenzweig \u201985, who followed obediently to the door of the professor\u2019s unlit biology classroom filled with students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018May I have your attention, please!\u2019\u201d shouted Nunnemacher. \u201c\u2018Arctic peoples longed for the sunshine after their cold, dark winters, and they had a chant they would do, just like our Clark University motto Fiat Lux, which means, of course, let there be light.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen Nunni proceeded to raise the object into the air,\u201d continues Rosenzweig, \u201cand says to his class, \u2018If you repeat after me, maybe we can get the electricity to come back on. Let there be light! Let there be light! Finally, the whole class was chanting \u2018Let there be light!\u2019 And whoosh, the power comes on. Nunni walked out the door, looked at me, and said, \u2018Pretty good, huh?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHe was one of the reasons I came to Clark, one of the reasons I enjoyed being at Clark, and one of the reasons I remember Clark so well.\u201d<\/p>\u2014Michael Rosenzweig \u201985<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

From 1938 to 1983, through the course of his remarkable Clark career, Rudolph Nunnemacher always brought the light to his classroom. Small in stature, with a neatly trimmed beard that faded over time from red to white, his was a formidable presence that made him alternately feared and revered by his students. The Harvard-trained biologist from a well-to-do Milwaukee family dressed formally in coat and tie, his only concession to summer\u2019s heat being the Bermuda shorts that replaced long pants. Says David Hawkins \u201983, \u201cWhen Nunni walked into the room, everyone noticed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A stickler for proper behavior and with a reputation for intellectual brilliance, he nevertheless displayed an impish, and occasionally outrageous, sense of humor. Nunnemacher was, for example, rumored to have demonstrated the power of peristalsis \u2014 the swallowing reflex \u2014 by drinking a glass of water while standing on his head. Perhaps this is why former students so comfortably and affectionately refer to him as \u201cNunni.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was a great lecturer,\u201d recalls Dr. Herbert Hoffner \u201955. \u201cHe had a unique way of presenting the material so that you got a chuckle out of the whole thing. But he didn\u2019t forget the important parts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nunni rides his high-wheeled penny farthing at a Worcester parade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hawkins recounts how, toward the end of a lecture on hymenoptera \u2014 the order that includes ants, bees and wasps \u2014 Nunnemacher, then in his 70s, inexplicably disappeared behind the desk at the front of the classroom. He emerged wearing a yellow- and black-striped rugby shirt with two antennae stuck on his head to deliver a lecture \u2014 in verse, no less \u2014 about the sex life of bees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was quite graphic, but with bee anatomy,\u201d Hawkins says. \u201cEveryone in the room was just cracking up. Then they applauded, and he bowed and left.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nunnemacher also was famous for owning a succession of boa constrictors \u2014 Humphrey, Ophelia, Franz and Monty \u2014 that he kept in a glass cage in the biology building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Dolan \u201962, M.A.Ed. \u201963, retains vivid memories of the boas at feeding time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was a big show,\u201d he says. \u201cI think he fed them every three weeks or so. They were his pets. He would pick them up and the rest of us would run out of the room.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nunnemacher, a devoted member of The Wheelmen<\/a>, an organization for cycling enthusiasts, enjoyed riding his high-wheeled penny farthing in local parades. On at least one occasion he sported a live boa draped around his neck as he pedaled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Nunnemacher\u2019s implementation of the Socratic method was a technique he might spring upon an unwary student anytime, anywhere. Hawkins describes the professor handing him a lump of unidentified material, then asking a series of questions to guide him toward the correct answer. \u201cEventually, I said that it\u2019s something regurgitated by a whale,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNunni said, \u2018That\u2019s right, Mr. Hawkins! It\u2019s whale vomit!\u2019 \u201cEvery time you talked to the man, you\u2019d learn something,\u201d says Hawkins. \u201cBut mostly what you\u2019d learn is how to figure things out. And he walked you through the process in a way that was truly magical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nunnemacher was famous for the one-on-one oral examinations he gave at the end of his Comparative Anatomy course, grillings that induced significant anxiety in his students. The misery was compounded by Nunnemacher\u2019s expectation that his students would present themselves suitably attired, which for men meant suit and tie. They were also required to bring along the smelly, formalin-saturated, 2-foot-long dogfish shark they had been dissecting during the semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI went into Nunni\u2019s office wearing my suit and tie and put my shark down,\u201d Hawkins remembers. \u201cI sat down, and it was really intimidating. When he looked into your eyes, it was like he saw right down to your soul.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Hawkins\u2019 exam, Nunnemacher told a story from \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d involving a walrus, a carpenter and oysters, which not only put his student at ease but expertly folded into the subject of shark anatomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe well knew what his students had been doing on their sharks, and what they might have challenges with,\u201d Hawkins says. \u201cThe challenge for me was being so nervous that I would freeze.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Leonard \u201962 had a similar response to the dreaded oral exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t eat all day,\u201d he recalls. \u201cBut Nunni would ease you into the hard questions, and when he saw you fumbling, he\u2019d move on to another question. So he was very kind in that way, because he could flatten you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nunnemacher so unnerved his students that before class field trips they would sometimes flip a coin to determine who would have to sit next to him on the bus. Inevitably, the experience was far more pleasant than anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen you got to know him, he was wonderful. Like an uncle,\u201d Leonard says. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t a guy who just walked up and put his arm around you. You didn\u2019t small-talk Nunnemacher. But he was just so warm and so nice to me. He was probably that way with all students who broke the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonard describes returning home to Worcester from Indiana, where he was completing his Ph.D., and realizing he didn\u2019t have enough money for the return trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNunnemacher asked me, \u2018How much do you want?\u2019 I think he gave me $500. He said, \u2018That\u2019s for travel and food for the next month.\u2019 I was broke all the time, and he took good care of me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonard returned to teach at Clark (1994\u20132007) and would follow in his professor\u2019s footsteps as chair of the\u00a0Biology Department. Rosenzweig is now senior instructor and biological sciences outreach coordinator in the Department of Biological Sciences at\u00a0Virginia Tech, and Hawkins teaches geology at\u00a0Wellesley College. They incorporate aspects of Nunnemacher\u2019s teaching style into their own approaches as educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn every way a teacher could have an attribute, he was superb,\u201d Leonard says. \u201cWhen I became a professor, I had clearly in mind the things I learned from him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosenzweig learned from his mentor that \u201cyou had to both teach and entertain if you\u2019re going to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Cormier, Ph.D. \u201982, a senior scientist with the Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>, recalls Nunnemacher\u2019s insistence that students explain the reasoning behind their answers. \u201cHe was always teaching people how to figure something out from the basic science, the basic observations that were available to you,\u201d she says. \u201cI think as a result, there are a lot of doctors out there who are much better than they would have been otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nunnemacher\u2019s office at Clark was legendary \u2014 a sort of \u201ccabinet of curiosities,\u201d full of biological specimens. Daughter Gretl Nunnemacher \u201970 characterizes her father\u2019s space as \u201can extension of the home I grew up in.\u201d She recalls among the collection a narwhal tusk, an old ophthalmoscope (a device for showing the workings of the muscles of the eye), and a stuffed pheasant that had been shot by Clark\u2019s first president G. Stanley Hall on a tour through Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A retired electron microscopist and the only one of Nunnemacher\u2019s four children to pursue a scientific career, Gretl says her father had \u201cthe soul of an artist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, Nunnemacher was an enthusiastic watercolorist who introduced a number of his students to the pleasures and challenges of painting. One of them was Dr. Carl Rosengart \u201955, who traveled by van with his classmates on several Saturday mornings to various locations around Princeton, Mass., where they practiced basic watercolor techniques by painting fields and barns. Later, during class time, they would put their newly acquired skills to use by painting images of the tissues they viewed under the microscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI still paint,\u201d says Rosengart, whose work hangs in Tilton Hall. \u201cClark was undoubtedly the best four years of my life. It was just an extraordinary experience, and Nunnemacher was part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The professor\u2019s strong presence was felt in other areas as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1957, Nunnemacher began his long affiliation with the Bermuda Biological Station (now the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences<\/a>), first doing research there on the eyes and nervous systems of crustaceans. Beginning in the 1960s, he led week-long research trips for Clark students to Bermuda, sometimes referring to his students as nudibranchs \u2014 a reference to a brilliantly colored mollusk for which he harbored a special fondness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark biology students continue to travel<\/a> to Bermuda to this day, the research trips partly funded through the Nunnemacher Award, which he endowed. The Nunnemacher Nature Reserve in Bermuda was dedicated in his honor in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Every time you talked to the man, you\u2019d learn something. But mostly what you\u2019d learn is how to figure things out.”<\/p>David Hawkins \u201983<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In waters closer to home, he developed and was the coach of the first Clark women\u2019s crew team<\/a>, celebrating its 75th anniversary this fall. The \u201cNunni\u201d was added to the crew\u2019s three-scull fleet in 1963, and a shell named in his honor has been part of the program ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe current rendition bearing his full name is an 11-year-old Vespoli that has been the chariot for most every Clark female oarsman over that time,\u201d says Coach Michael McDonald. \u201cAnd it has seen a lot of miles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Nunnemacher died from cancer in 1988. Before he passed, Michael Rosenzweig paid him a visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think he knew he was sick, but he didn\u2019t tell me, of course,\u201d Rosenzweig says. \u201cHe was older, frailer than I had expected. It was a very emotional meeting \u2014 it seemed a big deal to him that I cared to come back and give him my reflections on being an undergrad at Clark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was one of the reasons I came to Clark, one of the reasons I enjoyed being at Clark, and one of the reasons I remember Clark so well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heteropsyllus Nunni<\/a><\/em>, a minute crustacean inhabiting estuaries along the East Coast of North America, was named in honor of Rudolph Nunnemacher. It is a humble namesake for a humble man, yet doesn\u2019t quite capture the force of nature that he was. Of course, Nunni\u2019s true legacy rests in the University\u2019s labs and classrooms, where he lit countless intellectual fires before sending all those Clark nudibranchs out into the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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