David Benjamin Cohen

Dear Leslie and Jason,

It was David who encouraged me back in 1980 to apply to U.T. and come to Austin from Boston to do research in the Sleep Lab that he had established; finding a professor who was so genuinely excited and involved in dream research was a godsend for me. Some of my favorite memories of grad school were of me stumbling down the stairs from the sleep lab after a long night of monitoring sleeping subjects and recording their dreams to David’s office to tell him...

Dear Leslie,

David would understand my feeling sorry for myself for not having pursued the lunch we owed each other but he would not have let me off the hook about it, either.

I will be in NC at the unveiling of my mother's headstone on Sunday, but I will carry my memories of David, as well. You and Jason will be in my prayers.

Mark

My first memory of David is the evening my husband Rodney and I met him at the LeMadeline restaurant on Lamar Blvd. at our first Austin Multiple Myeloma Support Group meeting. We met David two and 1/2 years ago and he looked great. My husband had recently been diagnosed with multiple myeloma and the outlook for his life seemed very bleak. Leslie and I worked for AISD and a friend of mine got us together and Leslie filled me with information, hope, and the reality of this dreadful disease....

Dear Leslie and Jason,
David was my psychology professor my freshman year at UT. I really enjoyed his class even though he was very, very hard.
After I started working at AISD, I met Leslie and learned that David was her husband. When their son Jason was at LBJ, he was in the orchestra with my daughter, Lissa.Later, my daughter Megan and I contributed a story to one of David's books. It truly is a small world.
Through the years Leslie and I have become good friends and I...