******************************************************** Don Dutcher 24 Jun 2002 ******************************************************** Dear Bill, Fred Kruger suggested that we contact you so that you could put the information about my Dad's, Don Dutcher, funeral on the GSINET update. Dad passed away after a 3 year battle with renal cell carcinoma early on June 24, 2002. His funeral will be tomorrow, Thursday, June 27, at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church on Main Street across from the medical center and Rice University. The service will take place at 11 am with a luncheon following. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in memory of Don Dutcher to Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church. Thank you for passing along this information. Sincerely, Kristin Dutcher Mann ********************************************************* Remembering Don Dutcher ********************************************************* FM: LONNIE BROOKS SJ: Don Dutcher I can't tell for certain from what you've included in your message of 26 Jun '02 about the death of former GSIer Don Dutcher, but if he is the Don Dutcher I remember fondly, I hired him for GSI in Houston in sometime between 1970 and 1972. I was the Party Chief of a data processing crew in Los Angeles in 1970, and when GSI closed that center in 1970, the remnants were moved to Houston. I set up shop on the Southwest Freeway, and as things got better, we found we needed some help. I persuaded Ron Koehler we should hire a technician to tape record sections together and do other administrative tasks, and then advertised the position. We were deluged with applications from all sorts of overqualified people, and the best of them was Don Dutcher, with a fresh degree in geology from the University of Houston. Don proved to be very able and soon was doing much more than the administrative kinds of things he was hired to do. The last I heard, if memory serves, which is more and more of a challenge as I get more and more stacked up in the memory bank, Don had left GSI to work for Marathon. I'm sorry to hear of his death and the struggle with cancer that preceded it. My deepest sympathy to his family and to others in the GSI family who knew and loved him. Regards, Lonnie