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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Being a fairly new member of the congregation, I didn't know Bill well...but I wish I would have! What a lovely memorial to him!!!</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Peace...Love...Light</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">bevđ</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div><div id="LGEmailSignatureBox" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:9pt;"><i>Powered by Cricket Wireless</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">------ Original message------</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>From: </b>Ted Goertzel via Fuusm-l<fuusm-l@fuusm.org></fuusm-l@fuusm.org></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Date: </b>Wed, Nov 7, 2018 1:00 PM</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>To: </b>UU Members & Friends;</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Cc: </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Subject:</b>[Fuusm-l] Remembrance of William A. McNeely, Jr.</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif" dir="ltr">This was written for Bill McNeely's memorial service, but there was not time to read it then. Kat Hawbaker asked me to mail it out to this list.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif" dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-ffe3f42e-7fff-b7c3-67bf-374a42e77082"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bill McNeely was remarkable for bridging the gap between the sciences and the humanities in a way that enriched the lives of members of this congregation, of our interfaith partners in the Jewish community, and of the many of us who took his courses in the Institute for Learning in Retirement at Marietta College. He earned his PhD in astrophysics at Cal Tech, and published papers in refereed journals on topics such as âPhotoproduction of phi-mesons at small t-valuesâ that only specialists can understand. But he went beyond the technical to appreciate the broader implications of science and learned to communicate it to the rest of us. He preached a sermon to this congregation on the topic âIs God a Mathematician?â His answer, I believe, was that mathematical truths are profound and eternal, and that is one of the meanings people give to the word God. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bill came to Marietta late in life but he had a very youthful enthusiasm for new challenges. He became an expert on brain science and offered two courses on the very difficult topic of the relationship between the brain and the mind and the implications for our lives. And he approached the body-mind interface experientially as a regular participant in the meditation group that meets Wednesdayâs at noon in the RE building next to our church. He taught a course on mathematics for people who hate mathematics, and gave us a feeling for the beauty of fractal patterns and rational numbers, for the wisdom of Pythagoras, and the discovery of the number zero. He had no training in the humanities, but he developed a very thoughtful analytical course on the nature of humor. And he had the courage to go public with several gigs as a stand-up comedian at the Lafayette Hotel.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Billâs courage in dealing with a very difficult illness was moving. We will miss his joy in his recent marriage, his warm friendship, his willingness to share his insights, his eagerness to listen and learn, and his profound quest for the meaning he believed was somehow inherent in this universe. </span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div>
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