Bryant Freeman

I used Ti Koze Kreyòl to learn Haitian Creole. I also use your dictionaries. Thank you for making your work freely available. Your generosity has been felt by many.

Mwen regrèt anpil pou m tande dènye lanmò Dr Freeman (Tonton Liben). Nou te rankontre pandan jou Aristide, koudeta, ak anbago. Jenere ak tan ak materyèl li, asistan li te endispansab nan aprann fason yo ak pawòl pèp ayisyen an, yon pèp li te renmen ak respekte. Kenbe pa lage!

Jeff Bane Richmond Virginia I have such fond memories of Bryant . We were raised in Ginter Park area. Always a fun and gentle person to be around.

Stephanie, You were so blessed to have such a brilliant, accomplished, and supportive husband. My thoughts and sympathy are with you for the loss of your companion.

I knew Dr. Freeman when I was a young undergraduate student who didn't know what I wanted to study at KU. I knew I loved learning languages, and had studied French through my high school years. So the culture side, rather than the grammar side, of the French Department got my attention. I probably took more than one class from Dr. Freeman. However what I remember most is his love of his orange and white Clumber Spaniels. I don't know how we ended up talking about his dogs and my orange and...

Bryant (we called him "Mr. Freeman" in the UVa style...) was the faculty adviser to the Jefferson Chapter of the Virginia Council on Human Relations--the only civil rights group allowed on campus--in 1963-4. I (a lowly first year student) noticed a lack of many civil rights oriented books in the library (remember, this was the age of segregation, and several of my fellow students lived in Virginia counties where public schools had been closed to avoid integration). Bryant said that one of...