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One last good-bye one year on. Words fail me. Love you.
Steve Lawrence
June 12, 2016 | San Francisco, CA
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Hamilton, Viola Lee 6/12/2015 Ann Arbor, MI Viola Lee Hamilton passed away in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 12, 2015. A native of Richmond, Virginia, Lee was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College of William and Mary, studied at St. Andrew's University in Scotland, and earned her PhD in social...
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Steve Lawrence
June 12, 2016 | San Francisco, CA
Dear Lee,
I used to call you Crazy Lee because it sounded good, and you were so much fun. You were the youngest and most approachable professor I have ever met! You were so young, upbeat, energetic, and successful I was envious! I was not a student at the time, but I had the pleasure to participate in one of your witness identification experiments. You had my French friend Babette and I race through your classroom screaming in French while my husband and another of your brilliant...
Nicole Roger-Hogan
October 20, 2015 | West Lafayette, IN
Lee, you were my introduction to the profession of sociology, in 1975, and what I learned as your research assistant has helped me tremendously over the years. I will never forget our late night efforts to interpret cluster analysis, or meeting Bob Groves in ISR on the way to the Del Rio on a Friday night.
Somehow the days were longer and the passion was stronger, but we were young and foolish and not yet ready to publish before we perished.
So now that you became famous and...
Rich Hogan
October 16, 2015 | West Lafayette, IN
Best colleague I ever had. Remember those days at Michigan. A better friend than I deserved. The world will be a lot less fun without you. You always live in my heart.
Jeff Paige
October 12, 2015 | Cambridge, MA
I can't believe your gone. The best colleague I ever had--remember those days at Michigan? And a better friend than I deserved. The world will be a lot less fun without you. You will always live in my heart.
Jeffery Paige
October 12, 2015 | Cambridge, MA
Loved ya, Lee, you were the smartest most exciting...so alive, so wonderful. I cherish those months. Indelibly enriched my life, for sure.
Steve Lawrence
October 04, 2015 | San Francisco, CA