DAVID ELTON BURMASTER

This is Liz Burgess, Larry's wife, writing for both of us on March 5, 2023. Dave was a dear, dear friend whom I met on my first date with Larry in 1968. I can picture Dave and Pitts Jarvis standing in the door of Larry's basement "office." (Pitts told Larry afterwards that my skirt was too short.) We remained friends with Dave long after he and Larry left MIT, seeing him whenever possible. When we bought our first house in Philadelphia, he came to help us move. We last saw him at the...

David was 2 years behind me at MIT. Both of us were in the Sigma Nu fraternity. He was mentally and physically active during his college years. He played on most of the fraternity sports teams. He was an early fan of the outdoors and nature trails. I would take walks with him and a few others at parks 5-20 miles outside Boston. I met up with him a couple of times in the last several years, at my 50th reunion and at a funeral here in California for one of his fraternity classmates. I am...

David has been a part of my life for over 40 years!
We first met when, as a long lost cousin, he came to visit us when we lived in England.
I knew from that first meeting that he would be a special part of my life.

The world is a little smaller without this unique man who has been a counselor, life guide & a caring, beloved friend. Always just a phone call away .... with answers & advice for any problem, or just for a chat about baking bread, ham radio competitions or...

I met David on the first day of seventh grade as we both entered a new, accelerated program at North Junior High School in Niagara Falls, New York. I can see him now in my mind’s eye and, within a few days, I realized he was the smartest boy I had ever met. To this day, I always considered him to be among the brightest, most brilliant men I had ever known.
We went through junior high and high school together and were voted most likely to succeed for the Class of 1965. David entered...