douglain - Michael Rossman 12/15/39-05/12/08

From: supergee Date: May 13th, 2008 11:18 pm (UTC) (Link)

Sorry to hear that, though I hadn't thought of him in years. I thoroughly enjoyed On Learning and Social Change. Long long ago (before my time even) he was an sf fan who called himself Mique.

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From: (Anonymous) Date: May 14th, 2008 12:39 am (UTC) Testing, one two three, what are we fighting for ... Country Joe and the Fish (Link)

Micheal, sorry I had to leave Berkeley end of 1969, spent since 1951, mostly at the UC Coop Cloyne COurt, North Campus some two feet from most of my classes in EE.

Now, viewing your picture, holding the microphone, apparently from the background building columns, I am quessing the, then, new student union.

In viewing the frozen in time impact of "photons" hitting likely grains of silver bromide, quantum transposing maybe a single "photon" into a large silver quantum "dot", I saw what I am missing: Your ear, much like my fathers who escape from Eastern Polland circa pre Russian revolution, he reported seeing pile in the village near where her lived (Zabhor) a pile of 120 villagers slaughter by Kosaks.

I saw a picture of he and his family before this, he must have been about ten years of age, his ears were very large, sticking out to catch the sounds so clearly I imagine.

Now I tell young ones who have such nice ears to catch sound infront of them: you will be good at languages.

Now my ears are somewhat flat again by head, I spectulate, I can hear to the sides, maybe good for hearing possible attackers.

So at this time your friends are composing memorials to your memory, but after I did a google, opened up a file (ibook) to place into memory somethings I did not know about your life.

First, this hurts a bit, I have been somewhat jealous, you good looking, ok, but above all, you have that melodious presentation, that put the many SDSer's to some shame, that is, a number of us began to recognize and had friend that helped found SDS.

Second, the sixties, which you helped on much of the movie of that name for Berkeley, showed me how we males were missing our chance to advance the cause for the "other half" of population. Naturally this gave me some edge on using petty criticism to think of myself as some kind of 'chosen one', playing into the hands of major western religious dogma.

My defense is to state: "God told me to be an atheist".

The sixties were exciting times, provided, I felt, I wasn't in active warfare. But I just could not stomach the idea of killing someone I never met, and fortunately I met some, one in particular, a student who was in the army psychological warfare division for the Vietnam War, who clue me into the preparation that the army would go though to get the sons and daughters of our People to go into war and kill others.

I would not go, we picked the nuclear testing, marched into Oakland the day after Joan Bias was at the Recruitment Center, organized Community for New Politics, help Robert Sheer run for the US Congress House, almost won, 51 to 47, and got the best compliment from Raygun's Attorney Meese when he stated over television years later: The Movement was the greatest threat to our country.

This is not to say I live in my holodeck, but you have explored a subject of "psi" waves and instrumentation that appears you were hoping to get some grant money. I am sorry you didn't live longer, if I had know of your efforts, I , we could have worked on this aspect of human and animal behaviors.

SO when I left Berkeley late 1969, I came to Michigan, it's mid westeern Michigan coast, what a beautiful place, especially the water, I married a woam my age, minus seven days, that I met at the College of Marin, circa 1951.

She clams to be able to sense what people feel thousands of miles away.

Now since I am by education and training a Biomedical Engineer, having worked at UCSF Medical center and later Presbyterian Medical Center, and am basically a visual thinker, I have been open to what might be the or a physical basis of this claim.

Sure I am skeptical of most claims, but this "entanglement" with my wife for now over 38 years, is a relationship that is the longest of any other human I've known.

After life? No really, but you do "live" in the memory of those who knew and, really, jealous or not, do admire you, of course it is easier said now, and for those who knew, know you, I hope my feeling are conveyed, and you are compliements, the feeling now are like those for Mario Savio.

May we all struggle for peace and win that peace to be struggle for my those who have been enlightened by the efforts of a united but diverse peoples all over this planet called earth.

roger muldavin

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From: (Anonymous) Date: May 14th, 2008 03:54 am (UTC) Best Teacher Ever! (Link)

I had Michael as a science teacher for several years during grade school.
He was the best teacher I ever had! He will be missed greatly.

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From: gefmartiz Date: December 29th, 2009 10:51 am (UTC) понрыавилось (Link)

я тож так думаю :)

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