Jose Dolores Garcia

It is with great sadness that I heard of JD's passing. I was a physics grad student at UA in the lat 80s to early 90s. JD was my academic advisor, as well as myprofessor in some classes. During my first year he offered to do quantum mechanics with me as an independent study just out of the blue, when I absolutely hated the class I was in. I have nothing but positive memories of JD as funny, cheerful, full of hope, and also real enough during a time of trial for his family to actually show...

Dr. Garcia was my quantum mechanics professor in 1983, and J.D. became my colleague in 1997, when I started teaching at U of A. In both capacities, he was unfailingly kind, warm and helpful. He recognized that physics was hard enough without putting human barriers in the way, and it's a lesson that stuck with me when I became a teacher myself. I will miss his gentle presence in the department and in the world.