Dr. Joseph Francis Billingiere

Ah, so sorry to get this news. I worked with Joe long ago at a summer job we both had as night clerks at a motel in Oxnard, when we were both trying to get through school. Joe was delightful to just sit with, as I did very often in the early morning hours, to hear his take on the news and events of the day. He was filled with good humor and always a wry wink at pretense and authority. Sometimes he'd play (very well) his Ovation guitar. Sometimes he'd gently rage against the injustice and...