A Rainy day
Sep. 17th, 2010 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bex77What a day. A gray, rainy day.
Two people died. One I had never heard of, and the other I only knew in passing. But I know a lot of people are grieving.
RIP George Parks
I woke up to the news that the leader of the UMass Amherst Minuteman Marching Band, George Parks, had dropped dead at age 57 after their show last night in Ohio. Ordinarily, I don't follow much of the college band news, but my assistant, S., is a band alum, and volunteered to drive their truck full of instruments to Michigan this weekend for the big game on Saturday. So I was following her progress on Facebook. From all the posts over there, this guy was the sort who made kids into people, and helped them be more than they thought they could be. He had been at UMass for 33 years.
http://mobile.masslive.com/advmasslive/db_96654/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=vx6DC2F9&detailindex=1
RIP John Murdoch
My office at Harvard is across the hall from the History of Science Department. We use their facilities and eat each others leftovers, so we wander in and out of there a lot. One of their staffers came over to our office today at 10:30 am to tell us that a senior professor (who was still teaching at age 83) had died. His wife was away in Europe and couldn't get him on the phone. So she called his brother here. He and the EMTs found him dead in his apartment.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/09/john-e-murdoch-obituary/
Hugs your loved ones, folks. You never know.
Two people died. One I had never heard of, and the other I only knew in passing. But I know a lot of people are grieving.
RIP George Parks
I woke up to the news that the leader of the UMass Amherst Minuteman Marching Band, George Parks, had dropped dead at age 57 after their show last night in Ohio. Ordinarily, I don't follow much of the college band news, but my assistant, S., is a band alum, and volunteered to drive their truck full of instruments to Michigan this weekend for the big game on Saturday. So I was following her progress on Facebook. From all the posts over there, this guy was the sort who made kids into people, and helped them be more than they thought they could be. He had been at UMass for 33 years.
http://mobile.masslive.com/advmasslive/db_96654/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=vx6DC2F9&detailindex=1
RIP John Murdoch
My office at Harvard is across the hall from the History of Science Department. We use their facilities and eat each others leftovers, so we wander in and out of there a lot. One of their staffers came over to our office today at 10:30 am to tell us that a senior professor (who was still teaching at age 83) had died. His wife was away in Europe and couldn't get him on the phone. So she called his brother here. He and the EMTs found him dead in his apartment.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/09/john-e-murdoch-obituary/
Hugs your loved ones, folks. You never know.
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Date: 2010-09-17 10:58 pm (UTC)