DR Elmore, a lovely tribute to your friend.
A very nice obit, too.
We must never forget to treasure the good people in our lives.
There's an error in that obituary. She was not in the ROTC sit-in, although much of the theatre dept. was. She and I were in a dress rehearsal of a tedious production of
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf when another grad student, Joe Haggard, slid into the aisle where we sat to tell us there was a riot going on at the ROTC building. The three of us ducked out of the rehearsal and walked the block to the riot. The smell of tear gas was everywhere, and it was madness. The sit-in had begun in the early afternoon. It was a Friday and the law for state colleges was the buildings were closed at 5:00 for the weekend. At 5:00 the students were asked to leave and no one moved. The Columbus government said to get them out and lock the building and the campus police called the redneck Butler County Sheriff who arrived with all their riot gear and itching to put those hippies down. Long-haired men and women were dragged out by their hair, maced, and thrown into paddy wagons. When they ran out of wagons they brought in U-Haul vans and packed the students into those to go to the county jail in Hamilton OH.
The students who fought back or escaped the building were joined by friends, etc. outside the ROTC building, rocks were thrown, the sheriff retaliated by tear gassing the mob, and that's when Pam, Joe, and I arrived yo observe. Our eyes were burning so badly that the three of us ran into the nearest dormitory, found a public restroom, and washed out our eyes. I remember taking off my T-shirt and getting it soaking wet for Pam to use as a mask. The riot finally broke down when the Butler County Sheriff turned police dogs loose on the crowd. The dogs chased the students off campus and into the Village of Oxford. A fraternity boy, sitting on the fraternity's porch, was attacked and mangled by one of the pursuing dogs. The bloody towel used in getting him to the hospital was hung as a banner on the fraternity porch for weeks.
A week later, the students were shot at Kent State.