Albert Noyer

I met Noyer at an East Mountains book signing/author event in 2019. He was a great author and I've read some of his books with interest. My last visit at a comic-con found him giving a small history lesson to a small group of teenagers. They were listening to him with interest. In the short time I knew him, we swapped valid writing advice and story critiques between book buyers. He will be missed-condolences to family and friends.

As a student at Cass Tech, Albert gave us a sense that we really could have careers in the arts. There was such a sense of excitement in his classes that we really were being prepared for lives outside the classroom. I remember when I came back disappointed from a job interview (was I even 18 years old?) and how they had told me they didn't like to hire women because they would get pregnant and leave. (Yes, the sexism was that blatant.) He scoffed at that and said everyone moved around in...

I was lucky enough to know Albert through the writing community in New Mexico these past years, and it was always such a pleasure to see him. I enjoyed his books as well. He will be missed; my sincere condolences to his family.

Thank you Jennifer Fanning for your beautiful response. My reflection on Mr. Noyer is the same. He was always a bright light in my world and easily the most important adult in my young life. After Cass he became a mentor and friend. We corresponded regularly and I and visited him several times in NM. I have vivid memories of Cass Tech room 647 - an oasis from distractions and a place where my teenage brain could feast on coloraid paper, the smell of rubber cement, and learning about design...

My experience at Cass Tech seems more remarkable as I get older, and my most influential, even profound, student-teacher relationship was with Albert Noyer. I measure all my subsequent education against this standard. Mr. Noyer treated his students with respect, wry and understated humor, and professional expectations. It was an atmosphere in which we thrived. There was a kindness and empathy that we found nowhere else, an interest in us and in our developing skills, but also as people, not...

I can't imagine what our career paths might have been without Albert Noyer. His guidance, talent, and intellect brought out our best and gave us a glimmer of what we could be. He started the "What if..." in me.

God Bless and Rest your gifted soul, Mr. Noyer. Thank you for adding to my creative life. (Cass Tech High School Art Dept. Class of 1975)

God Bless You Mr. Noyer! You lived a full life hear on earth. Maybe some day when I pass, we both will be together in God's Heaven. And condolences to your wife Jennifer and All the Family.