From: Sean Williams [williams@evergreen.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 11:52 PM
To: Bantz, Don; All Staff & Faculty DL
Subject: Re: Loss of a community member
Thank you, everyone, for sharing your beautiful stories and memories; it helps the rest of us to grasp the enormity of our loss.  Jacinta graciously took me around the Com building when I first came for my job interview in 1991, and has been every bit as gracious ever since as a hall-mate and friend.  We shared our love for Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bobby McFerrin, and the dancer Savion Glover frequently, and she was constantly showering everyone in our shared hall with chocolates, ostensibly to conduct “taste tests.”  In December during eval week she saw me hunched glumly over my computer, walked in with some “Soy Nog” and poured me a mug of it, saying “I hate soy milk.  This is not soy milk.  This is soy NOG.”  (It was delicious!)  I also recall dancing and singing with her in the hallway, pretending to be the Pips (of Gladys Knight and the Pips).  But the shyest little part inside of me got its strongest boost from her last week when she said she liked my newest poem.

On the 3rd floor of the Com building there are flowers and candles and ribbons surrounding Jacinta’s office.  Please come and visit.
Sean