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Good Bye, Friend topic started 6/23/2005; 10:38:15 PM last post 6/23/2005; 10:38:15 PM

Dan Mitchell - Good Bye, Friend   6/23/2005; 10:38:15 PM (reads: 3239, responses: 0) Grief numbs my words. Our profession lost a gifted and dynamic member, and I have lost a mentor and friend. Had you told me in March that the vital, warm person with whom I was presenting at the 4 C's would not last more than three months, I would have told you that you were crazy. Although I have only known John for a year, communicating through blogs and emails, I feel that his friendship and mentoring has been among the most valuable of my professional experiences. His passion for teaching carried into the sensitivity and depth of the comments he gave to all of us who got to know him through our blogs. I will be forever impressed with the way that he could take other bloggers' ideas, reflections and rants and frame them in some larger question about the profession. And when John went on a tear about something, it was backed by forty years of experience in a field he loved. To borrow a line from Hopkins, John Lovas will forever "Easter" in my heart, and his influence on my teaching will resonate in the years to come. - Joanna Howard Discuss