GERALD FABIAN

Gerald Fabian,

I was just a kid when I knew Gerry- about 16 years old. But that's a very impressionable age and moments with him are indelible. So much so that over 60 years later, after a life in Europe, Indonesia and Hawaii, and returning here to California, I searched him on Google and quickly got in touch. I was so happy to have found him again. A short time later we had lunch in Santa Monica. The remarkable thing was that his voice, after age 80, remained the same - so...

Ardent Gerry I love you madly.
—Your privileged friend & correspondent since the late 60s,
Rich Tagett

Gerald has entered Great Peace, but with his passing something large has been ripped out of my soul. He was our teacher, who conceived and started our class, eventually inspiring us to carry on when he himself could no longer do so. And he was our dear friend, immensely gifted, with an awe-provoking grasp of history, cultures, and languages. My only consolation is in knowing that wherever he would go, he would share his rich world with those he met, and he would never turn down an opportunity...

My life was so much richer just having known Gerald. The image I choose to remember of him was the day before he passed away, he winked at me and blew me a kiss as I was leaving his hospital room. He will always be the giver of love and light to me. Gerald often called me "Alexander" after Alexander the Great. When I asked him why, he said that he saw great courage in me, just as Alexander the Great had. I find now that the one with the real courage was Gerald. In thinking now on the...