Mr. La Voz's Laugh

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Mr. La Voz's Laugh topic started 6/26/2005; 4:54:12 PM last post 6/26/2005; 4:54:12 PM

oceanlife2000@y... - Mr. La Voz's Laugh   6/26/2005; 3:54:12 PM (reads: 2282, responses: 0) Dear Mr. Lovas, I’m not going to write to you in past tense. Writing this post to you is cathartic. Maybe I'm still in shock that someone with your presence is no longer in this world physically but my gut tells me that you are very much alive in spirit and reading all of our posts. I hope mine reaches you well. I’m so touched that you always remember me—the quirky, odd duck of a former ad manager and one-time humor columnist of La Voz from ten years back. I’m remembering right now a few funny moments from the La Voz days. I remember asking you, in my charming naïve way, “Mr. Lovas, is the student newspaper called La Voz because your last name is Lovas but with the letters switched around?” I remember you laughed and explained to me the etiology of La Voz, meaning “the voice”. On another occasion, I remember asking you about your voicemail greeting: “Mr. Lovas, it’s hard to tell but in your voicemail greeting, are you saying this is John Lovas’ clown or clone?” Again, you had a good laugh. And then there was the day when Alex, me, and Darin McCann were preparing for a hilarious photo shoot to accompany our senseless but very funny three-person humor column for the last issue of the Spring quarter. I had blown up a balloon and stuffed it down my shirt so that I could look like a Pamela Anderson babe in the photo. I was goofing off, strutting my stuff in front of the staff when you walked in the office. In that instant, I must have had the deer-in-the-headlights look. I thought that I might be in trouble. But I remember you laughing and commenting, “Wow, Ramona got big!” I remember all of us laughing a lot after that. That’s the thing about you that I personally remember and hold in my mind—your elfish smile, your rosey-faced laugh, your sense of humor. You love to laugh and you find humor in so much, it is inspiring. Thank you for being you, and for laughing along when I was being “me”. Much love & laughter, always, Ramona Lum Discuss