John Stark Eck

John and I were members of a monthly dinner group. Heinz Buhlman and somebody else were the others. Usually our wives did the cooking but one month "the guys" decided to do that. We met at a bowling alley and decided on a menu of Polish cooking. It was great!

John was a valuable colleague in the physics department at Kansas State. I particularly enjoy remembering his description of using a recursion relation "backwards" to get an accurate Bessel function as "making a silk purse out of a sow's ear". He was a good teacher, too. In one of his large lecture classes he illustrated ideas of impulse-momentum using a toilet paper roll; memorable.

John and Dot´s generosity also financed a workout room in our mom´s name at The Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His sense of humor had a truth to it that made it hysterical.