Gerald D. Fasman

Dear Michael,



It is many years since I worked with your father at Brandeis (1970-72) but I still remember vividly the care and consideration that Gerry and Jean showed my family whilst we were in America. Those two years were a terrific scientific grounding for the rest of my academic and pharmaceutical working life. Gerry was a great mentor for us all in the lab, Peter Chou, Stan Cernosek, Moshe Werber, Alice Adler and many others before and since.

He will be greatly missed by many people throughout the world.



I know how you must be feeling as I lost my mother in November this year followed by my father 3 weeks later.



Kindest regards



Chris



"What may be a sunset to us, is a sunrise in another land"

Dear Cousins,

So sorry to learn of your father's passing so soon after your mother and to learn only today of his death.

They were such very fine people.



Cousin Marcia Tannenbaum and family

My deepest condolences to loss of your father.

Dear Michael, Daniel, & Jonathan:



It is with great sadness to hear from you that your Dad

had died on the morning of Dec. 17-- the centennial

of the Wright Brothers first man-powered flight.



Gerry had been a most wonderful mentor to me

during my seven years in his lab at Brandeis.

The work we did together-- Chou-Fasman

"Conformational Prediction of Proteins"

though almost 30 years old is still

widely cited in the literature

and on the web.



When I left his lab at Brandeis,

Gerry hugged me praising our work

together and calling me a brother.

We both had tears in our eyes.



On the night of Dec. 16,

I dreamt of Gerry talking to me.

The content of our conversation

escapes me. But I was so happy

saying to myself. "Gerry is so

alive, alert, aware--

he's not ill at all."



When I learned that he died on Dec. 17,

I wondered whether his spirit came

to me in my dream of the night before?



Reading Emily Dickinson's poems

inspired this poem in memory of Gerry:



"Emily Dickinson's Flight on the 17th"

http://www.wisdomportal.com/ Poems/FlightOnThe17th.html



With peaceful wishes,

Peter Y. Chou

December 18, 2003

To The Boys: My heart is with you.Gerry was a man I respected enormously. And he always treated me with warmth and affection.I will never forget him. All my love, Noah