Stephen L. Zegura

Steve (Zoggs) and I were fraternity brothers at Stanford in the ATO house. This house had the honor of being kicked out of the national fraternity for pledging Jews and Negroes. Zoggs lived life to the fullest and had a hearty laugh that I can still hear. I think, looking back, that what I am most grateful for in our relationship was that Zoggs taught me how to study. He knew how to grasp the big picture and how to fit necessary details into a wider thesis. I shall never forget that...

Steve was a year ahead of me at Stanford. We were in the same fraternity, ATO. When we took a biology class together, he rather passively taught me how to study. He made me a better student and, in other aspects of our friendship, made be a better, more joyful human being.

I thought of Zoggs just yesterday when I watched a Nova program on TV. it was about footprints in the White Sands area of New Mexico that have now been dated to between 21 and 23,000 years BP. This pushes back the time when humans first entered the Americas by about 10,000 years. I know that Zoggs was interested in the peopling of the Americas and I so wanted to share a glass of wine and discuss this program with him. I'll miss him until I go to join him.

One thing I would like to add is that Steve taught me how to study. He was a year ahead of me at Stanford. When I joined the ATO house, he and I took a couple of courses together and reviewed for exams together. He usually got a better grade than I did and I learned from him how to organize material and master it. So his abilities as a teacher were quite evident when he was only 20. I may have been his first student. I miss him so much. His curiosity and love of life were unequalled.

Dear Elizabeth and Krista,

Nancy and I just learned today, August 1st, of Stephen's passing. We want to express our condolences to both of you, as well as to the rest of Stephen's friends and loved ones.

I did not really know Stephen, having only met him along with you, Elizabeth, at Met Opera Live In HD performances. But having gotten to know you through my study of French in your classes, and our becoming friends, I appreciated the richness of your marriage and...

He was one of the best professors in the Anthropology department. I will never forget him. God bless you Dr. Z.

Zogs - you're the best. Elizabeth, Lesley and I send you and you family our deepest condolences. Steve was one of my best friends and my roommate in the Tau house. We will all miss him. God's Peace and Grace to you.

We pray to God; we talk to God;
But, may we scream at Him?
May we get mad and criticize
And disagree with Him?
We're given gifts, lose all in time,
Feel loss much more than gifts.
What we receive, we think is ours,
But, what we lose, we grieve.

So we give Zoggs back to the Earth,
Four billion years of work,
To make Earth, life, and finally him
(And us, all at this time.)
We got to walk together here,
A gift we did not earn.

Big heart, big...

Dear Elizabeth -- so sorry to learn of Steve's passing. Hard to believe, since I saw you in March, and everything seemed fine. Paul and I send our sincere condolences.