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William Bradley

Boulder, Colorado

1925 - 2023

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Bill Bradley died peacefully, surrounded by family, on Sept 9, 2023, at 98. For 34 years Bill was a geology professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Many of his students, even non-geology majors, remember him as "...the best teacher I ever had". Bill was born in 1925 to Josephine Crane...

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In 10 years of college -BS, MS, and PhD - Bill was simply the best teacher I ever saw-He was a genius at explaining complex concepts and illustrating them with drawings and slides. I'll never forget watching him talking to a group of school teachers starting with some very simple principals of differential weathering and showing how it developed into canyons, mesas. pinnacles, etc. It was brilliant. Besides that, he was humble, extremely helpful and just flat fun to be around - I still miss...

I was a student in Dr Bradley´s geomorphology class at CU Boulder in the Fall of 1968. I remember going on a field trip with Dr Bradley to an interesting geological site in southern Wyoming. He was undoubtedly one of the best professors I ever had and I will never forget him. I graduated with a PhD in geography from CU Boulder in 1975.

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This is such a beautiful tribute. My condolences to our old neighbors Louise, Mark, and Melanie.

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I have many memories of Bill from family gatherings but I'll tell one that touched me. Bill visited our house a few times while I was in grade school. Knowing that my crippled dad - Bill's brother Joe - couldn't play basketball with me (I never thought that meant something was wrong, incidentally; my dad was always my dad, and he couldn't do sports but that didn't bother me) - Bill would always propose a game of HORSE, and we would go out to the driveway where there was a basketball hoop and...

My last visit with Uncle Bill and Aunt Weezie, June of 2022, after Uncle Ric´s 100th birthday event in Colorado Springs. Such a lovely visit with Bill! Love to all, Lynn Bradley Leopold