Everyone born into the world has a name. Some names are easy to pronounce while others represent varying degrees of difficulty. On some occasions we find the need to change our names due to marriage or religion. Then, there are those who do not particularly like their name, but the fact remains that everybody has a name. A name to be remembered.

Some years ago, the students at the University of California began to protest, insisting that “nobody knows my name.” Classes with 500 to 1,000 students tend to become impersonal. Each student has a number for the purpose of identification, the professor does not have the time nor the patience to invest in a personal knowledge of that many students for such a short period of time. Yet, each person has a need to be known, to be loved, to be affirme…