Announcement to all refugees of the old original HB forums. Class of 52 has passed the veil.
http://www.legacy.com/heraldbulletin/Obituaries.asp?Page=Notice&PersonID=128991322
Dr. J. Eugene Fox
Aug. 7, 1934 — June 25, 2009
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Dr. J. Eugene Fox passed away at home June 25, 2009.
Gene was born Aug. 7, 1934, in Anderson, Ind., to Hobart Fox and Martha Lou Gilmore.
Gene Fox was a 1952 graduate of Anderson High School and achieved both academic and athletic distinction. He was the 1951 Indiana State Cross Country Champion as well as one of the two senior class recipients of the Indian Head Award given for accomplishments in both academic and athletics. He continued this tradition at Indiana University, where he was a member of the track and cross country teams, a 1956 graduate in biology and the recipient of a Ph.D. in biochemistry and physiology in 1960. Dr. Fox was awarded post-doctoral fellowships to the University of Wisconsin by the National Cancer Foundation in 1960.
In 1961 he joined the University of Kansas as an assistant professor of biochemistry, later professor and associate dean. During this period Dr. Fox's research was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
He was a tenured professor at KU for 19 years and then served the government at the National Science Foundation as a program director. Upon leaving the NSF, he went into industry, first creating and directing the Plant Cell Research Institute of Dublin, Calif., and then moving into research and development managerial jobs for Miles Laboratories, the Bayer Company and Mallinckrodt Medical. He retired from a vice presidency in 1998 and mostly for amusement began a business, Foxhaven Video Productions. In retirement from the video business, Gene and his wife, Marge, spent their time traveling the world in search of the ultimate fly fishing experience.
In 1981, Gene married Marjorie Ervin of Kansas City, Mo. Their daughter, Amanda (Amy) Lee Fox, is a recent graduate of the University of Oregon at Eugene, Ore. Gene leaves other children, grandchildren and two great-grandsons. He was preceded in death by his first son, David. Other children are Donald, wife Nancy and their son David, of Overland Park, Kan., Mark, wife Olga and son Christopher, of West Melbourne, Fla., Lisa, husband Chuck Tyler of Caldwell, Kan., and children Colter and Cayla Potts; Timothy, wife Sarah and sons Tasewell, Tyler and Ehren; and daughter Lauren, husband Ryan Sullivan and boys Aiden and Patrick, all of Des Moines, Iowa, and John and wife Jill in Grand Junction with sons Elijah and Tyler Davis. Gene also leaves a brother, Jerry Lee Fox, of Greenwood, Ind.
Gene embodied the qualities of a renaissance man. As part of his profession, he authored numerous scientific articles, in both textbooks and journals. However, Gene also authored pieces on such diverse subjects as parakeet genetics, trout fishing, separation of church and state, postal history of Chile and Peru, squirrel hunting, catch-and-release trout fishing, local politics and issues and, recently, an occasional column for the Grand Junction Free Press. He spoke at scientific conferences around the world, gave a commencement address at Berkeley one year and presented programs on fly fishing in South America to Trout Unlimited. He read history as well as science, supported classical music wherever he lived, but also loved boxing and watching college basketball. He was an active person throughout his life. After age 70, he broke a leg while scaling a wall in Utah when fly fishing. He could be found riding motor scooters in the Cook Islands, while there fishing, attended a Gilbert and Sullivan festival in England; and only stopped his daily bike ride in the last year of his life.
Services are at 2 p.m. Sunday at Callahan Edfast, 2515 Patterson Road, Grand Junction, Colo.
Donations, in lieu of flowers, may be made to Western Slope Chamber Music Series, 3410 Ponderosa Court, Grand Junction, CO 81505.
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(http://www.gjfreepress.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=GJ&Date=20081125&Category=OPINION&ArtNo=811249972&Ref=AR&Profile=1062&MaxW=550&title=1)
I'll cross swords with you again sometime beyond the pale... :'(
Some of his columns for the Grand Junction Free Press.
A Christmas list for the ages 12/25/2008
http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20081225/COLUMNISTS/812249978&parentprofile=search
Does religion make you a better ...12/09/2008
http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20081209/COLUMNISTS/812089977&parentprofile=search
Global warming naysayers a disa...11/25/2008
http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20081125/OPINION/811249972&parentprofile=search
What is socialism? 11/11/2008
http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20081111/COLUMNISTS/811109986&parentprofile=search
Why Johnny cant read (science) 10/21/2008
http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20081021/OPINION/810209964&parentprofile=search
The absurdities of Amendment 48 ...09/30/2008
http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20080930/COLUMNISTS/809299984&parentprofile=search
Man camp redux 09/16/2008
http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20080916/COLUMNISTS/809150932&parentprofile=search
Creationist tales and whales 09/03/2008
http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20080903/COLUMNISTS/809029979&parentprofile=search
The evolution enigma 08/21/2008
http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20080821/COLUMNISTS/86631&parentprofile=search
The man camp manifesto 08/05/2008
http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20080805/COLUMNISTS/384601420&parentprofile=search
I'm sorry that he has passed. I enjoyed the few times I spent talking with him. The last time I saw him was at my place of work when he was here attending his own mothers funeral. :(
He was one of the guys, who FIRST ripped me a new on the forum, way back in the days of when I was a rookie on these things....I also enjoyed conversing with him and found a lot of respect for him, by reading his posts.
He was a Class act, that's for sure. I enjoyed reading his posts, and interacting with him. In spite of all of his accomplishments, he came across as a common man who wanted to make the world around him a little better place for all of us.
Truer words have not been spoken! He was very much just the average Joe!
Sad news indeed...I've missed his contributions of late.
I guess now we'll be able to put the whole question of afterlife to rest one way or the other because if there is an afterlife, count of C'52 to figure out a way to come back and let us know!
I'll inform you as soon as he contacts me. :biggrin:
Wow. . . I still miss this guy! :'(
Unfortunately those articles for the GJFP are no longer available, and that is just sad. . .
I guess I'll just have to search for some of his work here. . . :'(