thatoneguy
- Joined Feb 19, 2009
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He will be sorely missed. beenthere was one of my favorite mods. Excellent sense of humor and easy to get along with.
Joyce Bennett said:I received the card today that you forwarded. Again many thanks. My family and I, and also friends and even my calculus students (who have known Bill throughout high school) have all been just in awe at the kind thoughts directed our way. It feels so good to know that Bill was truly appreciated. I know that he would have felt great pride and gratitude in knowing how many people he was able to assist down the road of knowledge. One of the many little "projects" that he built for me was a from scratch academic buzzer system. I have been the coach for academic team for over a decade and he had gotten tired of me complaining about the poor operating system that we had so he built us one and donated it to the school. Unfortunately, I changed schools five years ago and since it was a donation, I left it behind. My current school just spent $1000 on a new system that is not nearly as precise in the timing or user friendly as the one he had built. Bill's last completed project was to build each of the grandchildren a color organ. Our eldest grandchild (6 yr old) took his for show and tell and wowed the other students with his grandpa who could "make anything from nothing" in 6-yr old speak. Bill's last unfinished project was a nixie tube clock still laying on his desk with his hand-drawn schematics that he was doing just for fun. While I am at peace that Bill lived a fruitful life and is no longer suffering from the ravages of the cancer, I still am having a hard time filling the void left behind without his presence. You can only imagine our conversations (boring to many I'm sure!) regarding politics, education, music, books, and all areas of knowledge from history to science to math to philosophy. There was a reason we never had a television set up, we were too busy with our other interests! Well I must try and focus on the wonderful memories and get off the pity pot of might-have-beens. Again thank you for all you've done.
Joyce Bennett and family