David Monroe

To David's family I send my condolences. I attended John Marshall Junior High in Wichita and I rember well David's science project with the Tesla coil.

I went to Middle and High School with David, then roomed with him at KU. He was a friend and an extraordinarily brilliant person. I recall he won the city-wide Wichita science fair all three years of middle school. He continued to accomplish amazing things in college. It's my recollection that when we arrived in Lawrence as new freshmen he went to see the computer science/physics faculty and was shortly promoted straight to working with their graduate-level program. I regret that I never...