<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">An update on Robert Dykstra's passing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I just learned of funeral arrangements from his daughter.  For those who want to know more about Bob Dykstra's life and the plans for a memorial, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vGIeWbnfgvJ3vjVisHODd3oDBUPRjg_9lgG5FuVP_8E/edit">here's a link to the information</a> I was able to extract from his obituary</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">David</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 11:56 PM P David Pearson <<a href="mailto:ppearson@berkeley.edu">ppearson@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I learned just 36 hours ago that Robert Dykstra died in his early 90s.  I have not had time to think about a more professional memory, but I will.  In the meantime, here is a more personal memory, which I shared with his kids and their families.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div style="margin:0px;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">I have so many wonderful memories of your Dad.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">First, as a teacher: I took two of his courses as a doc student at Minnesota in the late 1960s. Fair, encouraging--but willing to let you know when your logic or writing was sloppy.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">Second, as a scholar: Whose commitment to improving the teaching and learning of reading, writing, and language was a model I tried to emulate.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">T<span style="font-family:inherit">hird, as my boss: He chaired the department I was in at Minnesota-fairly, firmly, with the right balance of gravitas and humor.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">Fourth, as a comrade: from the mid 1970s through 2015, he and I belonged to an informal group of "guys" who met on the first weekend in June to travel from Minneapolis to one or another resort-affiliated golf course in northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, or (on 3 occasions) Iowa for an extended weekend during which we fine-tuned our skills at our 3 favorite pastimes: golf, poker, and gastronomic (both food and libations) delights. We got the idea of creating a faux organization to camouflage our real intentions, so we created Lodge 1147, with fake officers to run the faux organization. We regrouped every summer, with two of us returning from new homes across the country, for 38 years before death, frailty, and memory began to decimate our numbers. I moved from Minneapolis in 1978, but returned every year to connect with this special group of guys to reminisce, lampoon one another, and laugh a lot at the world and ourselves. My last trip to Minnesota for this event was in 2015.  Reconnecting and visiting one on one with Bobby D, as we called him, was a top priority for me. Somehow, across all those years, we managed to pick up in mid sentence from the year before.</div></div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">Such good memories. Such a quietly warm and modestly kind human being. Such a friend. I miss him, but am comforted by these memories. </div><div style="font-family:inherit"><br></div><div style="font-family:inherit">Gravitas and Humor</div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">That is how I will remember him.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">David</div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="overflow-wrap: brea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