Beth Colombe

Dearest Beth: I will forever remember how you took a chance on a Brit. and offered me a job in your UCSF lab., with Marvin Garovoy, back in 1989. It was an honour to work for, and alongside you, both there at at CPMC, which you Directed subsequently. You are often in my thoughts, and I remember you telling me 'Don't sweat the small stuff - and it's all small stuff." It helped enormously! Thank you Beth, from the bottom of my heart, Stephen Steen CHS (ABHI).

Dr. C, I cant thank you enough for your wonderful words and support. You showed up when I was out on a limb. I have thanked you several times and I have thanked God even more times for you. I could not be more grateful for our paths crossing. I will never forget the stories you would tell me regarding your life as a little girl in Connecticut and digging for clams on the sound. You were and are truly a gift as I am sure that your spirit lives. I remember our lunches in center city and...

I am here remembering how you took care of me, when i had surgery for cancer, I have to go again, not for cancer, but to straighten me out. I do wish that you were here to tell me that I will be ok.

I have a few fond memories with Beth and I would like to share a couple of them with you. As you know Beth was a brilliant and dedicated immunogeneticist. We worked together at UCSF and together with Marsha Guggenheim and Jan Capper who are on the zoom this afternoon we became to UCSF gang Beth was a successful scientist admired by everyone in the laboratory and in the world. She attempted to correct my french accent. My son would agree with Beth that it was necessary. I remember...

07.23.23 Dear Family and Friends of Beth's - Wouldn't you know that the first question below brought tears to my eyes. I always thought of Beth as "family," as a dear "friend" and I also "worked" with her. She was a very important person in my life for over 40 years. It is difficult to summarize 40+ years into a few words. Beth hired me at the University of California, SF to administer the development of the Immunogenetics & Transplantation Lab. I remember she had such...

I started to clean Beth's apartment in the Touraine after she took a class I was teaching at Temple University Center City over 20 years ago. As my knees began to develop arthritis, I got out of the cleaning business, but I continued to work for Beth because there were no stairs, and I loved working for her! After she retired, we got to see each other every other week. We exchanged books, recipes and told stories of our pasts, and we always laughed! And I had an additional responsibility:...

One great memory of Beth has to do with bird watching. My dad was a Saturday Afternoon Dad for a while--my brother and I would pile into his Volkswagon bug (circa 1966) and do whatever. Occasionally Beth came along, and when she did it was her and me in the back seat and my brother and dad in the front seat. (When my brother and I sold that car about ten years ago, I drove it for a day to check it out, beforehand--it was like driving a lawn mower! We took that thing on trips to Arizona and...