Gael Dennis Ulrich

Dr. Ulrich was my advisor at UNH. He was a top notch mentor. I learned so much in science and writing. Can't think of anyone more deserving of a life that was as rich in the God's love as any man could hope for.

Just saw this obituary for Gael. One of the finest men I have ever known. As a kind and patient scout leader in the Portsmouth Ward, he encouraged (and kept alive) me and the other scouts on a memorable 50 mile hike. He was a wonderful family friend visiting us as a home teacher regularly and rounding up some men from church to help my non-LDS dad finish roofing our house. He was gentle and wise and discouraged Karl and me from shooting gray squirrels by telling us we'd have to eat...

Gael Ulrich was my scoutmaster when I was a boy scout at the Cambridge ward of the LDS Church. My older brother and I were not and are not members of the Church, but we became scouts there in the mid-1960s because my older brother's best friend was a scout in the Cambridge Ward. Despite my not being a church member, I always felt like I was a part of the community. Gael Ulrich was a terrific scoutmaster, and sensitive to my not being religious, never asking me to give the prayer, and I remain...

I very much enjoyed working with Gael during the editing process and publication of his wonderful, insightful, sad, but inspirational essay for Sunstone magazine, "Guitars in Church." (Sunstone. December 2002). https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/125-07-11.pdf I found in him a gentleness and sense of compassion that have stayed with me for these past twenty-two years.