May 2012
7 posts
clearing out Dad's office-- business cards
Mom and I went to clear out dad’s office. It was a really painful task actually… Imagine… stuff from Honduras 30 years ago!
BUT I found in the bottom corner drawer boxes of his business cards— English, French, Spanish, Chinese. Then I found other ones that were in the top (easily accessible drawer).
I asked the secretary why there would be so many because on quick...
Don Kass, Cornell
MY KINDRED SPIRIT
Although I was not related to Josh, I always felt that I was.
I guess there were two main factors, we were both Jewish and we had decided to enter into agronomy only after getting a degree in another subject. Soon after I started in agronomy at Cornell, I viisted my father’s sister whose husband was a Russian emigre doctor. When I told him that I was studying agronomy, ...
Fred Hoxie Eulogy to Josh April 27 2012 Madison WI
Fred Hoxie
My father was the kind of person Kodak made their ads for. Not only did he take pictures at every significant family event, but he catalogued his pictures and saved them in immense photo albums. About fifteen years ago, as my dad approached his ninetieth birthday, he began breaking up his albums and distributing his pictures to his children. One of the pictures he sent me was a...
Jerry Doll, Eulogy for Josh Posner April 27 2012...
Jerry Doll, Dad’s UW Mentor
I met Josh when CALS was recruiting an international crop production scientist. This was a new venture for the college and department. Not international work as such because we have a long tradition of faculty involvement in overseas programs and of training international students. But in this case the college was seeking someone whose core appointment included...
Ken Shapiro, Eulogy for Josh Posner April 27 2012...
Ken Shapiro, Dean of Int’l Programs
I first knew Josh only by reputation; then as a colleague who became a friend and ultimately a model.
In talking about Josh and his time at UW, I have to start with Jill. In all the many places they lived around the world, Jill and Josh made a wonderful life together and raised two great kids. Visiting them abroad you knew you were visiting a home,...
David Edie, Eulogy to Josh April 27 2012 Madison...
Josh Posner Memorial Service
April 27, 2012
Josh was a big man with a big heart. He embraced life: his family, his friends, his colleagues, his work. “Embrace” seems like the right word. Knowing his sister Deb and her work, I went to the dictionary for definitions of the word. Here are some of the definitions of “embrace”:
To clasp in the arms with affection
To accept with cordiality
To...
Carl, Zambia
I had the pleasure to audit Dr. Posner’s Tropical Cropping Systems class in early 2010. Each lecture was the 90-minute equivalent of drinking from a firehose; he would stand in front of a series of maps of the world, gesticulating broadly at various areas, the Sahel, the Andes, Patagonia, Oceania, etc. and with each gesticulation, describe in absolutely exquisite details the how, why, and...
