2 10 162 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. It would be exaggerating to say that Roy taught me to drive – I had learned the basics already. But it was Roy who saw to it that I got my first driver’s license. It was 1975, at the end of my first year of graduate school. I was to take a long summer trip across the country. I would travel mostly by Greyhound bus, but was to return with a friend by car from the West Coast and needed to be able to share the driving. I had obtained my learner’s permit. Thoughtful, generous, kind as ever, Roy offered his time and his car to help me pass the road test. He took me out once or twice for practice, observing me patiently and tactfully. No test appointment was available nearby in Cambridge, so we would have to spend a whole morning going for a test in Roslindale, the other side of Boston. Roy waved aside my apologies for this, though he surely had better things to do with half a day. At the start of the test he climbed into the rear seat, on hand to take over the wheel if I should flunk out. The car had bench seats. The examiner, a bulky man, was not too impressed with my driving but passed me anyway. As we drove back to Cambridge, Roy let on that he had been anxious during the exam and was relieved it was over. The front seat, he now told me, was broken, and not fixed to the floor on the passenger side. Sitting as straight as he could so as not to attract attention, Roy had spent the entire test firmly gripping the underside of the front seat, hoping that I would not brake too hard or that if I did he would be strong enough to stop the examiner from sliding toward the windshield. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Chris Clark Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Chris Clark Type The nature or genre of the resource Document https://www.thanksroy.org/files/original/a127b98f999caf44d06606093cac46f8.jpg 25a82197844bd650a649768483403ea9 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Height 2387 Width 1859 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 61 Title A name given to the resource a sign that gave Roy satisfaction Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You must be 13 years of age or older to submit material to us. Your submission of material constitutes your permission for, and consent to, its dissemination and use in connection with Thanks, Roy in all media in perpetuity. If you have so indicated on the form, your material will be published on Thanks, Roy (with or without your name, depending on what you have indicated). Otherwise, your response will only be available to approved researchers using Thanks, Roy. The material you submit must have been created by you, wholly original, and shall not be copied from or based, in whole or in part, upon any other photographic, literary, or other material, except to the extent that such material is in the public domain. Further, submitted material must not violate any confidentiality, privacy, security or other laws. Description An account of the resource From a demonstration that was not given a permit to use Central Park during the Republican Convention Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Betsy Blackmar Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Betsy Blackmar Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image grass lawn politics Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. I knew Roy was sick, and I suppose there’s a certain appropriateness—given how much of his life he lived on the Web--that I learned about his death from a friend’s email, but the news was still shocking, and brought me to a stop like no other I could have imagined. I would never claim to have been close to Roy, in the sense that I may not even have been one of those 1,542 electronic business cards Deborah mentioned in her remarks at Roy’s memorial celebration. But like many of you on this site, you never had a conversation with Roy without feeling close to him, and I think I can say this too: since I first met him while working on the Radical History Review more than 30 years ago, I never had a conversation with him when I didn’t feel better afterwards than I did before. It’s not only that he was the funniest academic I’ve ever known, or that he communicated such warmth so effortlessly. It’s that he, personally and professionally, embodied the idea that we historians, and particularly radical historians, had the right and obligation to hope: for a more just and decent profession, country, and world. Without Roy, many of us would have been far more tempted to make our careers into efforts to document just how bad things have been in the past, and how, very likely, they could even get worse. Roy’s book “Eight Hours for What We Will,” even though it charts a kind of declension in working-class leisure, opened a different kind of door for many of us: the idea that we could look at leisure and play as serious, even respectable areas of research. In my own case, I think I can say that without Roy, I could not even have considered, much less written, my first book, about the history of early baseball. When it was just a completed dissertation (and I was out of academia), and one of my advisors thought it might make a useful article someplace, and a couple of series editors had dismissed it—Roy ended up an anonymous reader for Cornell Press. Here’s what I wrote 20 years ago in the preface. Roy Rosenzweig's thorough Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 144 Title A name given to the resource A Tribute to Roy Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You must be 13 years of age or older to submit material to us. Your submission of material constitutes your permission for, and consent to, its dissemination and use in connection with Thanks, Roy in all media in perpetuity. If you have so indicated on the form, your material will be published on Thanks, Roy (with or without your name, depending on what you have indicated). Otherwise, your response will only be available to approved researchers using Thanks, Roy. 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We cannot return any material you submit to us so be sure to keep a copy. Thanks, Roy will not share your email address or any other information with commercial vendors. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Warren Goldstein Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Warren Goldstein Type The nature or genre of the resource detailed appreciatively critical reading of my manuscript remains the finest piece of criticism I have ever received on any written work. I still don't quite know how he does it. I hope that the final product meets the expectations of his comments." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Celebration Description An account of the resource Speeches from the Celebration of Roy's Life, December 9, 2007, George Mason University, Arlington campus, Arlington, VA. Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. For many years Roy and I used to entertain each other with ideas for get-rich-quick books. We were sure that the popularity of <em>When Bad things Happen to Good People </em> would be easily topped by our sequel, “When Good Things Happen to Bad People,” and we were equally confident that our lavishly illustrated coffee table book on the history of dentistry would be a bestseller. But our favorite idea—one to which we would refer over and over in the years that followed-- occurred to Roy in the early 1980s, when we were post-doctoral fellows at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Humanities. Neither of us had taught before at an institution at which scholars and artists were objects of fascination not only for students but also for other faculty members. Almost everyone we met at Wesleyan had odd or funny stories to tell about famous academics, especially those who had spent time at the Center for the Humanities in what were obviously its more illustrious days. We didn’t know if they were accurate in every or even any detail. But we became interested in the widespread habit of telling them, and as the stories accumulated, Roy proposed that we assemble a “Humanist Joke Book.” It was to be organized in two parts, corresponding to the two categories into one or the other of which, we believed, all jokes about humanists fit. Jokes in the first category made the implicit point that “famous humanists are just like you and me.” A story about political theorist Hannah Arendt and avant-garde composer John Cage playing tag after hours in the Center for the Humanities was one example. The other category conveyed the opposite point, of course—that “famous humanists are not like you and me”. The anecdote we heard about Norbert Weiner, mathematician and developer of cybernetics, is an example of this second type. This is how it goes, or at least how one version of it goes: Norbert Weiner was coming home from work, but couldn’t remember where his home was. He and his family had recently moved though within the same neighborhood, and he had forgotten not only his new address but what the house looked like. He saw a bunch of children outside, playing, and went up to one of them. “Little girl,” he asked, “do you know the house where the Weiners’ live?” Pointing to one across the street, she replied, “Yes, Daddy, it’s right over there.” Of the two kinds of stories, Roy enjoyed retelling those that suggested that famous humanists are not like you and me, because the joke usually turned on humanists’ blindness to basic knowledge that we have of one another and to the bonds that define and enrich our lives. Roy found that obliviousness funny, I think, because it was so unlike the way he was and what he valued. In early 1999, Roy read Malcolm Gladwell’s “Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg” in the New Yorker, an article that describes people who are what Gladwell came to call connectors in his book The Tipping Point, published the following year. Like Lois Weisberg, they know everyone. “In a very down-to-earth, day-to-day way,” according to Gladwell, “they make the world work. They spread ideas and information.” They connect people up with friends, spouses, jobs and other opportunities. And they do this not as a deliberate, self-serving strategy but because they have what Gladwell calls “an innate and spontaneous and entirely involuntary affinity for people. They know everyone because—in some deep and less than conscious way—they can’t help it.” Half-way through reading the New Yorker piece, Roy looked up and said, “this is my sister.” He had always admired Robin’s ability to stay in close touch with all their relatives, the number of her friends and acquaintances, and the ways she managed to intertwine them. But by the time he finished reading the article, he had realized that he was a connector too. It may have dawned on him at the moment when he read that Roger Horchow, another of Gladwell’s examples, “sends people cards on their birthdays” and that “he has a computerized Rolodex with sixteen hundred names on it.” (Roy’s electronic address book only has 1,542 cards—I checked.) He saw that he and Robin had similar propensities; they just operated in different communities. He served as social glue for those whom he met in the schools that he went to, starting with first grade but, much more so over the years, in his profession. Many of you have alluded to this quality on the website thanksroy.org. He was, Dina Copelman wrote, “a one man employment service. . . . always thinking about who would be good for a job, who needed a job, who might want to talk to someone who might know of a job.” Another friend and colleague Ellen Noonan remembers that he was always “passing along information about a project or person I should know about.” His “special gift for bringing the world together,” as Gladwell puts it, was wonderfully compatible with his politics and his desire to be part of a solidarity for causes in which he believed. A walk through downtown Washington, camera in hand, surrounded by friends demonstrating in support of a woman’s right to choose, in commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington, or in protest against the Iraq War-- was a day well spent. His preference for collaborative rather than solitary work is well-known—he saw early in his career ways to blend friendship and scholarship. The telephone was an apt metonym for Roy until the computer took its place. The appeals of email and then the internet for Roy were obvious. As his friend Tom Thurston said on thanksroy, “From the start he saw that this new medium must be a collaborative enterprise, that the inter-networks were about social networks. Roy understood the web long before there was a web.” So now “famous humanist” stories are beginning to circulate about Roy--like the time he tried to keep the front seat of his car from sliding forward, unbeknownst to the examiner, while Chris Clark took his driving test or the time early this fall when he advised a younger colleague about his book manuscript while lying on the floor of his office, the only way to minimize his physical pain. And like the stories that amused him most, many of those about Roy also make the point that he was “unlike you and me.” But he was different not, as is typical of this type of story, because he ignored or forgot his social world but rather because he was able to do more than most of us to create and sustain it. In the last week of Roy’s life he mustered what energy he had to tell friends and family members that he was grateful to them. He thanked his doctors, he thanked the nurses who cared for him at the Virginia Hospital Center. He dictated emails of affection and appreciation that I sent for him to colleagues. A few people he was able to thank in person, and he asked me to call others and put him on the phone briefly. Had he been in perfect health that effort, given all his friends and colleagues, would have been herculean. But without much stamina he had to stop the phone calls and email long before he had intended. So I want to say on his behalf: thank you all for your friendship at whatever point in Roy’s life you knew him and for the support you gave him in his last 17 months. He was determined to carry on as he always had, doing the work he enjoyed with the people that he loved. You accepted his determination and carried on with him. I also want to thank our families, friends, and colleagues at George Mason who have been helping me through this impossible loss. Finally, I am very grateful to those of you—too many to name—who have arranged this Celebration of Roy. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 247 Title A name given to the resource Alison Landsberg Speaking at Roy's Celebration Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image https://www.thanksroy.org/files/original/cb125756ad49f41cad4f33bfcee92e61.mp3 363cc1436ebe7a9186d4b17aa8d8f4de Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 36 Title A name given to the resource alt.blues.roy Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You must be 13 years of age or older to submit material to us. Your submission of material constitutes your permission for, and consent to, its dissemination and use in connection with <em>Thanks, Roy</em> in all media in perpetuity. If you have so indicated on the form, your material will be published on <em>Thanks, Roy</em> (with or without your name, depending on what you have indicated). Otherwise, your response will only be available to approved researchers using <em>Thanks, Roy</em>. The material you submit must have been created by you, wholly original, and shall not be copied from or based, in whole or in part, upon any other photographic, literary, or other material, except to the extent that such material is in the public domain. Further, submitted material must not violate any confidentiality, privacy, security or other laws. Description An account of the resource A very rough first take--I'll probably polish it up when I get time. Although to be honest, writing a piece of music for Roy is sort of like painting a landscape for Ray Charles. Roy would appreciate the gesture, I'm sure. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mike O'Malley Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike O'Malley Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound blues music roy Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. One of the things that I remember most about Roy is that no matter how busy he was, he always had a thank you at the ready. It didn't matter if what you did for Roy was just part of your job, he would always remember to recognize your contribution. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 114 Title A name given to the resource Always a Thank You Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You must be 13 years of age or older to submit material to us. Your submission of material constitutes your permission for, and consent to, its dissemination and use in connection with Thanks, Roy in all media in perpetuity. If you have so indicated on the form, your material will be published on Thanks, Roy (with or without your name, depending on what you have indicated). Otherwise, your response will only be available to approved researchers using Thanks, Roy. The material you submit must have been created by you, wholly original, and shall not be copied from or based, in whole or in part, upon any other photographic, literary, or other material, except to the extent that such material is in the public domain. Further, submitted material must not violate any confidentiality, privacy, security or other laws. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Allison O'Connor Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Allison O'Connor Type The nature or genre of the resource Document thank you