From: "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:49:48 -0400 ()


     I, too, feel the need to say something upon learning 
of the unexpected death of our lisa.  I had not met her, 
but had hoped to.  We had numerous offlist discussions and 
had exchanged papers (that's what petit bourgeois academic 
intellectuals do rather than having sex, :-)).  She was 
always fair-minded and committed.  I think that Hans D. may 
have overstated it when he called her "dogmatic," but she 
had very definite opinions about things and stood her 
ground.  But unlike many of us, myself included, she always 
did so in a calm and forebearing and reasonable manner.
     I feel bad that I made fun of her several times as the 
"baroness lisa," on the list and knocked M2 somewhat as the 
"duck pond."  But she understood offlist that I was being 
humorous and that I thought and think that marxism2 has 
been an intelligent and well-run list.  Compared to the 
flounderings of left-unity, her straightforward, if 
somewhat arbitrary, rules seem utterly reasonable.  
     I had, and have, the deepest respect for lisa as a 
person, an intellect, and a committed progressive activist. 
I am especially impressed that she could come out of a 
deeply conservative background such as Utah mormoism to her 
ultimate views.  I do not know if this was told to the 
whole list, or just to me in an offlist message, but lisa 
worked as environmental planner for the state of Utah prior 
to her return to grad school.  Even if mormonism was 
originally socialistic, it isn't these days.
     I am beginning to maudlinly ramble, but, heck, I am 
really am deeply saddened and upset by this.  As with many 
others on these lists, I felt that I really knew her, and 
what I knew, I cared for very much (and I am a happily 
married man).
     Do svidonya and adios, lisa.
Barkley Rosser

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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu




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