Melvin Lars Light

We will miss you Mel. You influenced my life more than you know. I shall make a pinch pot in honor of you.

Dear Family
I was so sorry to hear of Mel's passing. I graduatead in 1962 and had Mr Light for Spanish. He was one of my favorite teachers. He was competent, well liked, pleasant and someone all of us kids really liked. I left Mercer Island in 1964 but I guess he stayed around and became the favorite teacher/coach of others. Please accept my sincerest sympathy and just know how much he was loved by all his students and peers. He was by far, one of the greatest and best liked in our...

I remember mel trying to teach me spanish back in the late 50's or early 60's. I think he also was involved in track as well. I appreciated softspoken way.
dave

Dear Mrs. Light and family,
We were sad to read of Mel's passing and
astounded at his background. He never told us that he stayed at Washington Children's Home. I grew up just a few houses away from the Washington Children's Home playground. In fact, I'll bet that I was playing on the jungle gym, the teeter-totter or the swings at the same time Mel was. Now I wish we had chatted more often. .Mel was a help to me in my formative years as a teacher even though he did not know it....

Dear Ebbie* and Family,

We are ourselves + other people. With Mel's passing a part of us has been lost. Still, so much of who and what Mel was remains alive in us and in those whose lives he touched, that it is hard to think of him as really gone. I will always remember Mel's capacity to be amazed by beauty and outraged by meaness, unfairness, and injustice. I remember Mike Shoemaker once saying how impressed he was that Mel never became enured to or jaded by people who behaved...

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mel had many kind words as an educator and friend.