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In Memoriam: Kenneth P. Strong
Jan. 13th, 2010 06:54 pmMy dear colleague Ken Strong died yesterday, with a smile on his lips and people who loved him around him, apparently as peaceful and as graceful a death as brain cancer could allow anyone.
I know the tendency is to remember people as better than they were in life, but all the cliches are actually true when it came to Ken--literally no one who had met him thought he was less than excellent. He lived a huge life, a life of grins and grand gestures and the kind of laughter that pulls you giggling in its wake, glad to be part of the joke.
Ken was a scholar, a teacher, an actor, an orator, a mentor and a friend. This is a poem which i have loved since i was a child, but which while i've known him, i've associated with Ken. I don't know why--i don't even know if he ever read it (though he probably did, being a well-read guy). I transcribe it here in his memory.
( The Day is Done )
There will be a memorial service for Ken on Monday January 18th at 1pm in the Paul Green Theatre on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You can find the Paul Green in the Center for Dramatic Art located at:
250 Country Club Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
There are no street numbers listed on University buildings, but you should be able to find us if you google map/mapquest/gps that address.
Ken's wife, Kee, has asked that in lieu of flowers donations be made in Ken's name to the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center. For further information you can visit their online donation site: http://www.cancer.duke.edu/btc/modules/waystohelp10/index.php?id=2
Rest, Ken. You've been at peace as long as i've known you.
I know the tendency is to remember people as better than they were in life, but all the cliches are actually true when it came to Ken--literally no one who had met him thought he was less than excellent. He lived a huge life, a life of grins and grand gestures and the kind of laughter that pulls you giggling in its wake, glad to be part of the joke.
Ken was a scholar, a teacher, an actor, an orator, a mentor and a friend. This is a poem which i have loved since i was a child, but which while i've known him, i've associated with Ken. I don't know why--i don't even know if he ever read it (though he probably did, being a well-read guy). I transcribe it here in his memory.
( The Day is Done )
There will be a memorial service for Ken on Monday January 18th at 1pm in the Paul Green Theatre on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You can find the Paul Green in the Center for Dramatic Art located at:
250 Country Club Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
There are no street numbers listed on University buildings, but you should be able to find us if you google map/mapquest/gps that address.
Ken's wife, Kee, has asked that in lieu of flowers donations be made in Ken's name to the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center. For further information you can visit their online donation site: http://www.cancer.duke.edu/btc/modules/waystohelp10/index.php?id=2
Rest, Ken. You've been at peace as long as i've known you.
