3 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. I wasn’t one of Roy’s closest friends, but I feel lucky to have known him for a long time. We met when I joined the Radical History Review editorial collective in late 1990, and worked together on that for many years. I can’t be surprised that so many others have used the word “generous” about Roy. Usually it means a nice person, someone who gives you some time and tips. Roy was the real thing: without any pretence or show, he helped other scholars, including me, in substantial ways. Over and over, more times than I count, his advice and assistance was crucial, on everything from big to small. He left me with an example of what it means to understand history as a collegial rather than competitive initiative. Roy’s generosity was tied up with his politics, as a radical historian, and a central figure in establishing the practice of radical history in the 1970s and 1980s at RHR, the American Social History Project and CHNM. Yet here, as in everything else he did—and he did so much, as a scholar-activist—he was exceptionally modest. Not self-consciously humble, the way some are on the left: he could tell some very funny stories about the old days of MARHO, and was quietly helpful in explaining to those of us younger to the enterprise what had actually taken place, minus any mythography. The great radical historians of the past forty years, among whom Roy numbered, are people who took seriously the idea of opening up how history works to everyone—undergraduates, K-12 students and teachers, and the politically-engaged public, as well as our disciplinary peers and graduate students. His contributions are monumental in that respect, from Who Built America?, to “History Matters,” to charting the path to a democratized digital history, let alone his own books, which will be read and taught for a very long time. And then there is a whole other side: how, as one half of “R.J. Lambrose,” he showed up the absurd misappropriations of history by bad scholars and reactionaries of every stripe, helping to make sure that no one would ever mistake the RHR for just another journal. There were many times when I read that section of the journal first, laughing and declaiming it aloud to whomever was in the vicinity. To be judiciously, bitingly funny and radical too—a rare gift in our country, let alone our profession. That’s what Roy was, a rare gift. 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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Further, submitted material must not violate any confidentiality, privacy, security or other laws. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Van Gosse Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Van Gosse Type The nature or genre of the resource Document 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. This is my October 21, 1007 column for The Examiner newspaper. Being a teacher is as schizophrenic as being a student. There’s class, and there’s life, and “never the twain shall meet.” Students pretend to focus on schoolwork between the hours of 7:20 a.m. and 2:05 p.m., but who are they kidding? Certainly not their teachers, who remember what it was like to be constrained emotionally and intellectually by schoolroom rules. As a teacher, I expect of myself more focus and less distraction, yet sometimes life insinuates itself into my lessons. While my students have been distracted by homecoming, I have been thinking about a distinguished George Mason University colleague who recently died of cancer at the age of 57. Hundreds of Mason students and teachers are mourning his untimely death, but my high school students know nothing of Roy Rosenzweig’s digital histories or of his many contributions to GMU and his Center for History and New Media, and so I keep my sense of loss private. While talking about literature in the classroom, I have been composing in my mind an email to his wife, whom I have known for over 30 years. How can I show her compassion when I have not suffered the loss of a husband? What comfort can I offer when I don’t really understand the devastating effect of that loss? Oddly, I found the answer to that question grading papers. School and life merged the moment I read my classes’ essays on “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” which focused on the heroine, Janie’s, response to Teacake’s untimely death. What comfort did Janie find for the loss of her companion and the love of her life? Student after student wrote that to Janie, Teacake still “lived” since his effect on her remained. She mentally projects her memories—“pictures of love and light”—against the wall of her home. She gathers up those memories and lifelong dreams and calls in her soul “to come and see.” Teacake “could never be dead until she herself finished feeling and thinking.” Zora Neale Hurston’s words are Janie’s comfort, and were precisely the words I needed for Roy’s wife, Deborah. Roy’s books, teachings, and digital texts remain, and the memories of those who knew him are the “pictures of love and light.” What also remain are the ways Roy changed others. Like Teacake, Roy treated people respectfully and graciously. His friends and colleagues have created a website (http://thanksroy.org) that reflects myriad instances when his personality and intellectual strengths made others wiser and stronger--“pictures” preserved. Of course no website, no matter how moving or comprehensive, can begin to compensate for the loss of a husband or friend, a death that came decades too soon. But reading my students’ commentaries helped me see that books are often relevant to life outside the classroom, and that Hurston’s words have a function beyond my English curriculum. Perhaps at a distant point in the future, some of my students will remember that a person’s “love and light” cannot die as long as they themselves have “feeling and thinking.” At that moment, they might realize that sometimes what we learn in the classroom can teach us about life. Sometimes “the twain” does meet. 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 63 Title A name given to the resource When Life and the Classroom Meet Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Erica Jacobs Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Erica Jacobs Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Deborah legacy pictures 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. This isn't a story exactly, it's some observations. There are lots of comments here about Roy's courtesy and thoughtfulness and kindness, his generosity. He had all those things to a really remarkable degree: that's all true. But he wasn't exactly self-effacing. Roy was relentless at getting what he wanted. He worked away and worked away on all fronts at once, and I realized early on that if Roy wanted something A: he was usually right about it, and B: he would not quit till it happened. He was mentally tough and tenacious, but he was also wise and smart and saw a couple moves ahead of most people, so there was almost always point C: it's going to benefit a lot of other people, you might as well get on board. That's not self-effacing, it's something more interesting and unique. Also although Roy was a very strategically patient at getting what he wanted he was basically an extremely impatient guy. He was pretty good at concealing it but he got impatient easily and he generally responded to impatience by multitasking. The laptop was practically invented for Roy, so he could do email when meetings got slow. He was scathingly funny when someone really irritated him. It was easy to get him mildly irritated, although his basic kindness mediated it. But when he got really bugged he was pretty funny about it. He was especially irritated by mindless adherence to procedure and by moments when stubborn tradition shut down ideas Roy had no taste at all for formality and he was never, ever, pompous or haughty. He was more likely to be distracted and slightly oblivious except when you had his full attention, in which case he was all the things people say he was. I remember telling my parents about Roy and saying that you'll ever know, when you meet him, what a big deal he is. There was no self-promotion. He promoted the work, and the work he did was almost always done in community with others He was extremely skeptical about the profession--about snobbery masquerading as standards, about the bubble reputation, about the ways the familiar often obscured the talent. Lot of people feel ambivalent about their profession, but Roy's skepticism never turned into alienation, and he never stopped working to improve custom he thought were useless and corrupt. That to me is the most admirable thing about Roy--not that he was some kind of saint, not his many gifts, but that although he was an impatient, often single minded and stubborn, driven guy, he learned how to blend those qualities and turn them into community, instead of selfishness. He was flawed like we all are but he was an unusually morally conscious man, and keenly aware of how to make his weaknesses useful to all those around him 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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Further, submitted material must not violate any confidentiality, privacy, security or other laws. 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 Document impatient single-minded stubborn 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 has been comforting to read how many lives Roy touched in such a variety of wonderful ways. Being Roy’s sister, I always thought he was the “brother extraordinaire”, who was always there when I needed him. I will miss him arriving to visit and asking if we could put up a pot of coffee (even at 11PM). Anything that was of importance to you in your life, was of importance to Roy. It amazes me that his family only knew about one quarter of his professional accomplishments. Roy never made a big deal out of anything he had done. We will always cherish seeing him receive the Lyman award at the Library of Congress. Roy has always been the teacher, the one showing the way. So it really comes as no surprise that he taught us that the best way to travel in this world, was to be kind and caring about others. And when it comes down to who we are, that is really all that is important. Roy I will miss you more than you’ll ever know. Thanks Roy for being so you, up until the very end. 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 71 Title A name given to the resource My Brother 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 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 Robin Rosenzweig Schkrutz Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Robin Rosenzweig Schkrutz Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Brother coffee Kind miss 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. Roy was my friend for nigh on two decades. I first came across him through his work. Eight Hours is a marvelous book. For mine, it was one of the key books that helped make labor history interesting, that showed that the term could encompass rather more than all those tedious, although no doubt virtuous, histories of trade unions. The book had nothing in particular to do with what I was writing my dissertation on but it was one of the most influential forces in shaping what I put down on the page. Reading it I was constantly jotting down ideas that Roy’s prose had triggered—sly little asides, sharp observations, nice turns of phrase, all were grist for my mill. Our other “pre-contact” was over a piece I wrote that was solicited by the RHR and then rejected. My letter back to the RHR pointing out some of the journal’s shortcomings—in those days, one read RHR for the interviews with historians, Josh Brown’s stuff and, of course, R.J. Lambrose, but the quality of many of the articles was not exactly overwhelming-- gave me no little satisfaction. Roy and I derived a fair bit of amusement over the years out of that letter and what I had surmised about what had gone on even though I was a graduate student 10,000 miles distant—I mentioned some of this in the memorial site for Larry and Roy told me a couple of times that he was pleased to see a version out there. I met Roy at an OAH but really got to know him when I organized for him to come to Sydney to give the keynote to the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association meeting in Sydney in 1990. Roy gave a wonderful talk on Central Park. Roy and I got on just great—I think we both believed in the virtue of gossip and of course Roy knew all these historians and I had spent a total of 6 weeks of my life in America and knew about two people who had written a book on American history. I can still hear Deborah’s voice as I was driving them both around to some site or other—“OK, you two, that’s enough.” From that time on I saw Roy once or twice a year, either at the OAH or when I went to Washington. He used to joke that he probably spent more time with me than with friends who lived in DC or NY. At first I used to stay with Roy because I was scrimping and scraping to afford to be in America but I carried on staying over on Jackson street even when I could charge a hotel bill up to a research grant. The reason was simple—the best way to talk to Roy was to be there at breakfast (tho I must confess jet lag meant I usually emerged from my room rather later than Roy and Deborah) or in odd minutes here and there during the day. And we talked, and drank coffee, and talked some more. When I think of Roy a whole series of images come to mind. The slightly awkward hug when we met. I was glad to see someone else mention this—I had always assumed it was just me not coping that well with the rather more touchy-feely American culture. Roy was incapable of just doing one thing at once—when a call came in that was going to take some time he’d often keep on tapping away on the computer but I also loved watching him “multitask” by unloading the dishwasher or in a slightly maniacal fashion grab some cleaning materials and scrub the coffee table or some other flat surface that could use a burnish. And I also still derive amusement from thinking about the moderately comical fights we would have about who was paying for dinner—there are some things I don’t lose and I soon worked out that the pre-emptive strike of paying on the way back from the bathroom was the best way to resolve that one. I remember what now seems a rather weird conversation from the early 1990s when Roy was trying to convince me of the virtues of email and how useful it would be for someone in my position (ie geographically challenged by the lights of many on the east coast of America). And what’s more, hardly anyone was using it and it would be good to have email exchanges. I also remember from way back then talking to Roy, horrified, as he put together a new apple computer for some of the Voyager stuff without even opening the instruction manual. Last time I stayed with Roy he also gave me hours of talk and demonstrations on the virtues of zotero. Roy was slightly bemused by friends who were hardly computer-ept but he did tolerate us ! I can’t help but think back a couple of years to the San Jose OAH. I flew into San Francisco and Larry Levine and Roy were there to pick me up. We went back to Berkeley and had dinner and then the next day Cornelia joined us and we drove down to the conference. It was a terrific time. And then within weeks Larry found out he had cancer and died in what seemed a very quick fashion and then Roy too was diagnosed with the disease and died in even quicker time. Roy’s illness was one of the things that most troubled Larry as the end approached—they used to have long phone conversations as Roy trooped around getting medical treatment. Roy was probably the most generous person I have ever met, certainly by a considerable distance the most generous academic or historian. He was also very principled, perhaps ethical is the right word. When Roy spoke at the memorial for Larry Levine he quoted from me about Larry’s aggressive egalitarianism. I’d use the same words for Roy although in tone and manner the two were rather different. I’d also add that Roy was very sharp—I loved talkingt o hima bout books or articles we had just read. It was getting to know people such as Roy and Larry Levine that showed me the possibility of an egalitarian, inquiring and open-minded academe creating exciting history, a vision that I immediately contrasted with the dead hand of Oxbridge—crabbed, close-minded and wearing tweed jackets with leather patches—that held such sway in Australia for so long. Roy and Larry were very large factors in my embrace of many things American. And yet even if Roy was closer to sanctification than most of us, he was, thank god, no saint. Indeed, I found him even more endearing when some of those rough edges were, usually privately, displayed. Roy could be funny and savage at someone’s grandstanding; Roy heaped thoroughly deserved harsh words on the (absent) heads of people who let him down and had left him to do all the work even when he was very sick; and I remember him being almost speechless and not very happy on hearing some material of his being used by someone else and not particularly well either. For all that, he really was such a decent and self-effacing guy. I can remember how embarrassed he got when he asked me to write a reference for him for the Virginia award he got, offering me at least 20 ways out. The last time I saw Roy was at the OAH in Minneapolis earlier this year. “Treatment” had taken its toll and the trademark moustache as well as his hair had gone. Jon Wiener and I joked with him that if he could just dress a bit more snappily he would be the spitting image of Foucault. Everyone knew Roy but as he walked around the convention people he’d known for decades simply did not recognize him; many, he thought, were probably wondering who this weird guy was who was smiling at them and saying “Hi.” He also knew that if he went up and said “Hi, I’m Roy” these people would be mortified. That was Roy—always worried about the other person. It is still very hard to believe that he’s gone. For me at least, going to the OAH next year without either Larry or Roy is going to make it all seem very strange. 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 77 Title A name given to the resource Two decades of friendship Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You must be 13 years of age or older to submit material to us. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Shane White Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Shane White Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Australia friendship Levine multitasking 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 can’t remember how or exactly when I met Roy. I imagine it was at the MARHO table at the AHA, sometime in the late 1970s when I was finishing my PhD. Sue Porter Benson might have introduced us, or perhaps I had just signed up to sit at the table the same time as he did. He seemed always to be at the MARHO table then, before he started serving on every committee in sight. In those days, there were a lot of leftist men who hadn’t quite gotten the gist of feminism, but Roy was a welcome exception. Just when I was about to utter some universal complaint about macho leftists or about one more session on labor history that failed to consider women or gender, Roy would pop into my head. Then I’d have to take a deep breath and realize that there were a few good men. It wasn’t just that Roy acknowledged women’s history. He also embraced what I thought of as feminist process, though he didn’t articulate his style in those terms, or any terms--he just got things done in an incredibly collaborative and unassuming way. I remember especially a moment in 1991, when we served together on the OAH Program Committee. There were lots of proposals for complete sessions that year and a big stack of single paper proposals as well. Most of the committee was willing to focus on the complete sessions and only move to the single papers if we really needed to add speakers or sessions. But Roy cornered me at the first coffee break and said we should volunteer to go through all the single proposals and create sessions because otherwise lots of graduate students and young faculty who didn’t have the networks to produce full sessions would get lost. So we did just that—and it yielded some great sessions. On so many occasions like this one, Roy did the invisible work that makes such a difference and refused any special acknowledgement for his efforts. He was a mensch. Around the same time, I was serving as an outside reviewer for The Park and the People. In that capacity, I discovered that Roy’s passion for collaboration was just as strong when it came to research. Roy (and his co-author, Betsy Blackmar) actually seemed excited to get suggestions for revisions. I think this was the first time that I let a press give out my name to the authors of a manuscript, and they were so appreciative of my comments that I foolishly thought their response was typical. (I soon learned otherwise, but I was forever grateful that they had taken my ideas seriously. It gave me greater faith in my critical abilities and served as a model for how to embrace criticisms and suggestions about my own work.) In addition to Roy’s generosity and collaborative spirit, he was excellent at persuading people to take on extra work for a good cause since he was always doing more than his share. The point was reinforced over and over again as I crossed paths with Roy in MARHO, the OAH, the ASA, History Matters, and especially, the American Social History Project. When I was recruited to join the ASHP group revising Who Built America? in the mid-1990s, it was Roy who called. I was overwhelmed with commitments of various kinds at the time and would have turned anyone else down. But Roy always seemed to be juggling more obligations than anyone else and doing it so well. Plus, he was listened so carefully to my concerns and anxieties that by the end of the phone call, I’d said yes. I’m glad I did. Joining the WBA? circle gave me the chance to collaborate with Roy—and Steve, Josh, Chris, Nelson, Susan, Ellen, and Pennee. This was a project that highlighted Roy’s intellectual and technological creativity and his amazing ability to find humor in the midst of crisis and chaos. As we await publication of the third edition, I still expect an email from Roy to pop up in my inbox. (I’ve studied the nineteenth-century “spiritual telegraph,” and if anyone can get it to work, it’s Roy.) Like so many of us, it’s hard for me to think about a world without Roy. But then we don’t quite have to since he’s still present in so many places—in books and websites and digital archives; in the ways we think about research, writing, and collaboration; in the tools we use to teach; in our commitments to history as politics; and of course, in our hearts. 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 82 Title A name given to the resource A few good men(sches) 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. By submitting material to Thanks, Roy you release, discharge, and agree to hold harmless Thanks, Roy and persons acting under its permission or authority, including a public library or archive to which the collection might be donated for purposes of long-term preservation, from any claims or liability arising out the Thanks, Roy\'s use of the material, including, without limitation, claims for violation of privacy, defamation, or misrepresentation. Thanks, Roy has no obligation to use your material. You will be sent via email a copy of your contribution to Thanks, Roy. 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 Nancy Hewitt Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nancy Hewitt Type The nature or genre of the resource Document collaboration mensch WBA? 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. During the late 1960s and early 1970s Roy was my constant companion, my dear friend and, for a time, my husband. The outpouring of grief and love expressed in the many notes about Roy that have been left here is not surprising. Roy was as good a person as I have ever known. Beyond his genuine sweetness, loyalty, generosity of spirit, and daunting work ethic, Roy was a truly principled individual. He was fascinated by the intricacies and ideological minutia of political groups, but never took the easy route of allowing party politics to do the thinking for him. His opinions were his own. And when he decided an issue was important he acted on it. During the Vietnam War years Roy applied for and received conscientious objector status. But freeing himself from the potential horror of wartime military service didn’t end the issue for Roy. Instead, once a week for two years Roy rose at 5:00am so that he could travel down to Whitehall St., New York’s selective service headquarters, to try to find ways for those waiting on line to get out of service. I remember he was particularly upset that they were inducting junkies who weren’t able to protect themselves from the Selective Service madness. Roy did what he could to help. He also had the wonderful ability to use his sharp, slightly subversive, sense of humor to undercut self-righteousness and pomposity. His father, Max Rosenzweig, helped to nurture Roy’s sly funny bone - introducing him to the Marx Brothers and Bob and Ray at an early age. Perhaps these were also early inspirations for Roy’s love of the offbeat - not the temporary, self-defining off-beatness of adolescents or the cutsie off-beatness of gift stores, but the genuine, quirky uniqueness of American subcultures and individuals who have somehow landed on the stove top instead of in the cultural mixing pot. Roy’s concern for those facing systemic problems that blocked them from attaining some semblance of the good life was also come by honestly. One summer during college he worked in a shoe factory in Brooklyn. Many days after work he would tell me stories about the social and financial obstacles faced by the workers. Personal stories, real stories - not textbook generalities. He knew full well how lucky he was that in September he got to go back to being a student and how relatively oppressive it would be to see nothing but more factory work in one’s future. Roy noticed and cared. Roy and I rarely saw each other since we both moved on from Cambridge in 1978. When we did see each other it was invariably somewhat awkward and sad but I would have given anything to have been able to talk with him briefly one last time. Unfortunately, I did not even know Roy was sick until I came across the death notice in the NY Times. I am so horribly sad that his life was so unfairly cut short but get some solace from knowing he led a full life surrounded by people who loved him dearly. 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 Beth Bernick Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Beth Bernick Type The nature or genre of the resource Document 1960s 1970s husband 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’ve learned so much from reading all the entries here, but it’s also reinforced what we all already knew—Roy was a unique, wonderful person who enriched the lives of many hundreds of people through friendship and personal contact, as well as hundreds of thousands of people through his work. I want to add in four ideas: 1. ROY WAS A LIFELONG FRIEND. Because so many of his friendships started with collaborative work projects, it would be easy to assume that his friendships required work relationships. But instead, Roy maintained close friendships with individuals he first met in elementary school, junior high, high school, college, his time in England, and elsewhere. I don’t know anyone else who remained connected to so many earlier parts of his or her life. When you became a friend with Roy, he became your friend for life. He was able to do this because of his tremendous energy, his generosity, and his sincere interest in other people, their experiences, and their ideas. 2. ROY KNEW HOW TO HAVE FUN. Yes, he worked long hours and may not have relaxed as much as most people, but he also knew how to have fun away from work. He loved movies and he was always interested in trying new experiences. During graduate school, when he was writing about working class leisure, a group of us decided to expand our leisure-time horizons and try out various modern recreational pursuits we hadn’t previously tried, or hadn’t done since childhood. We rode the largest wooden roller coaster in Massachusetts, played skee ball, went candlepin bowling, watched harness racing, attended professional wrestling matches, bet on jai alai, and more. Roy was open to a wide range of experience and got enjoyment from all of it, never looking down on any of it. 3. ROY TRIED TO SQUEEZE THE MOST OUT OF A DAY. As many people have written, Roy was well known for multi-tasking in order to accomplish more than the rest of us could in a given hour or day. When he was in graduate school, he tried a unique strategy in order to get more done. For a time when he was working on his dissertation, he had no teaching or other tasks that had to be done at a set time, so either consciously or unconsciously he began living on a 26-hour-a-day schedule. Every day he would work a couple of hours later and stay up a couple of hours later. On Monday, he might go to sleep at 1 and get up at 8. Then on Tuesday, he would go to sleep at 3 and get up at 10, and so on. Those of us in the apartment got used to seeing Roy eat breakfast at all hours of the day and night. 4. ROY WAS PART OF A STRONG PARTNERSHIP. Roy and Deborah made a great team. They complemented each other so well and brought out the best in each other. It was nice to watch them interact with each other. To those of us on the outside, they had a strong identity as a couple while giving each other room to have their individual interests and express their individual unique personalities. When visiting them, one would have three good experiences—one with Roy, one with Deborah, and one with the two of them together. Roy was a great person and a great friend. As so many other people have observed, he made a significant difference in my life. He taught me important skills and lessons, he helped me succeed professionally, he brought me joy, and he was always there to help when I needed him. 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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 Leon Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Warren Leon Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Deborah friends graduate school 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 arrived at George Mason University in July of 2005, a wet-behind-the-ears, just-graduated librarian stuck with the thankless task of running a new institutional repository. Even before I met him, his presence and CHNM's on campus gave me faith in what I was doing -- some faculty DID care! Not only that, they were writing books and building tools that would help me open the world! I did have the privilege of meeting Roy at last. The inevitable tall cup of coffee was involved! What struck me about him was his awareness; he really heard what was happening around him, and the complex machinations involved as he assimilated what he heard to what he already knew (and he knew a lot!) were practically visible. I congratulated him by email when he became a design element on the Create Change open-access website. I was so pleased and proud to be associated with him, even in such a tenuous fashion as working at the same campus in a roughly similar problem space. The open-access community is much, much the poorer for his loss. As I am. 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 Dorothea Salo Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Dorothea Salo Type The nature or genre of the resource Document chnm gmu open access 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 memory has returned to me several times over the past two weeks. Roy and I met to discuss the status of the project late last summer, when he was just back from one of his treatments. We met in his office; seeing him for the first time in six weeks, I was taken aback for a moment. His optimistic (and prompt) e-mails over the summer had not given much indication about his physical deterioration. As we sat down to discuss the project, however, the extent of his fatigue became clearer; he labored to draw regular breaths. Roy explained that lately he tired in the afternoon, and that breathing became more difficult as a result. Would it be awkward for me, he asked, if he lay down on the floor to ease the effort? It might have been awkward with anyone else, but Roy made it seem completely natural--and for the next 45 minutes we talked about the status of the project, the work we’d already done, and details that remained to be sorted out, all from the floor of his office. Within a minute, as Roy related a laugh-out-loud anecdote, I felt as if it were perfectly natural to have a meeting while lying on the floor. Why would anyone ever hold a meeting anyplace else? As our conversation wound down, I inquired tentatively about Roy’s condition, which was obviously becoming more serious. But of course Roy didn’t want to talk about his discomfort, or his frustration, or his exhaustion, and steered the conversation to me. How was my summer? How was my work coming? I confessed (somewhat sheepishly, given the magnitude of Roy's illness) that I was having some difficulties: I had just received feedback from a reader I suspected had not read the work carefully or completely. Roy pressed for some details, and as I described the comments, he urged me to appeal. The next thing I knew, Roy was offering, then insisting, to read my proposal himself and to help draft a response to my editor. It was a moment that, to me, typified Roy’s generosity and his sensitivity: with everything going on in his life, Roy was still lavishly generous with his time, his energy, his insight. And despite the difficulties facing him, he never stopped searching for ways to offer his experience and his time to others. I was so lifted by Roy’s interest and concern that I was halfway across campus before it occurred to me that I had just piled a substantial amount of work on an extremely busy man with a serious medical condition. Roy was always so graceful with his generosity that it was easy for me to take it for granted. Thanks, Roy. In the past two weeks, I’ve spun between deep sadness at not having years more with Roy as colleague, mentor, and friend, and deep gratitude for being invited into Roy’s community, and this department, for the two years that I had. Mostly I’m just mad at the universe for claiming him way, way too early. 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 91 Title A name given to the resource Thanks Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You must be 13 years of age or older to submit material to us. 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