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Robert Resek Obituary
URBANA - Robert Resek, 89, of Urbana, died at 6:30 a.m. Saturday (Sept. 21, 2024) at Clark-Lindsey Village, Urbana. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Renner-Wikoff Chapel and Crematory, 1900 S. Philo Road, Urbana.
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David Merriman
September 23, 2024
Bob was very kind to me when I started working with IGPA. He brought me in on a project about the economic benefits of higher education to the state. I remember that previous reports on the topic had been based on sloppy thinking and Bob wanted to do it right. He had great concepts and I learned a lot. Also, I remember that even as a retired professor who had also been an administrator for years, he had great technical skills. As a much younger colleague who fancied myself pretty up-to-date on the latest razzle-dazzle, I felt a little intimidated that the old guy knew more than I did. We stayed friends and colleagues for many years after that, and Bob always made me think more clearly and harder. I will always remember his kindness.
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Brian Gaines
September 23, 2024
For many years, I looked forward to coffee-hour at IPGA every Wednesday morning, where I would hear endless entertaining stories from Bob and the late Sam Gove. They both knew University of Illinois history inside out, but could also cover virtually any topic at all related to politics or economics. I must have dozens of stylized facts in my head that I got from Bob. How do large organizations usually handle embezzlement? Everything I know about that, I heard from him. Bob was an excellent story teller, and a fine person, who always had a kind word and sound advice. If Sam delighted in affecting grumpiness, Bob was usually the optimistic one. But I recall him interrupting some prediction he was making, in what must have been 2003, with the startling aside "...unless we all die from SARS before that." He said it in the same good-humoured manner that I recall him always using, and I inferred that he was not one who feared death. RIP, friend, with thanks for your wisdom and so many fond memories.
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