AMY A. KASS

Amy Kass was my absolute favorite teacher at Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School. Her history class dealt with the importance of primary sources in the study of historiography. In particular, we looked at the history of Mary, Queen of Scots. I will always remember her as a remarkable teacher.

As a student of Human Being and Citizen in '83-84, I happily owe Mrs. Amy Kass an unpayable debt of gratitude for initiating me and my classmates into the wonderful, inspiring, life changing, exuberant and exacting world of textual analysis. She changed our lifes immeasureably and set us on a lifelong course of inquiry, ideas and critical thought. Perhaps even more impressively, it always felt to us as if she did so gently and lovingly, despite the intellectual rigor that she brought to...

Dear Leon and family, I was so very saddened to read of Amy's death. You two were the most wonderful, loving and engaging couple. May God hold her in the palm of His hand. With deepest sympathy. Susan Koehler
Some time ago, I sent a photo of a friend of yours, Greg Campbell. We were on a trek - the Tour du Mont Blanc. The world is quite small.

I owe much of who I am as a person and as a professor to Amy. Every time I step into a classroom I do so in tribute to her. I hope that I have a fraction of the impact on my students as she did on hers.

My deepest sympathies to Prof. Kass and their daughters, and the rest of Prof. Amy Kass' friends and family. Hers was a life brilliantly lived; she is a presence and an intellect that will be greatly missed. To this day I thank my lucky stars I was fortunate enough to be one of the incoming students at University of Chicago (1977) to receive a letter asking if I wanted to be part of an "experimental" joint humanities and social science class. Replying yes, and having the opportunity to...

Leslie Lynn Ehrlich, "62. A great loss of a life well-lived.

When I tell my children to keep taking classes from a professor when they find a special one, I am thinking of Mrs. Kass. She influenced my college experience in such a meaningful and positive way that it is hard to find the words to express it.

May her memory be for a blessing.

Deepest condolences. A wonderful lady.