Welcome friends, family, colleagues. Thanks to all of you for being here today, and a very special thanks to the many people who worked so hard to put this event together, especially Amy Noecker of the College of Humanities and Social Science Dean's office, who really did most of the heavy…

For many years Roy and I used to entertain each other with ideas for get-rich-quick books. We were sure that the popularity of When Bad things Happen to Good People would be easily topped by our sequel, “When Good Things Happen to Bad People,” and we were equally confident that…

I’m Tony Rosenzweig, Roy’s first cousin and I’m here representing family and on behalf of family I’d like to thank all the colleagues and friends who came to share their thoughts and memories. It’s wonderful – though not surprising – to see how many were…

My name is Jean-Christophe Agnew, and I knew Roy for some thirty five years. If that sounds a bit like the introduction for someone in recovery from something, that’s pretty much how I feel at the moment. And you too, I’m sure. All of us poised at one step or another of recovery from…

Roy Memorial Speech, December 9, 2007

I’m Steve Brier, founding director of the American Social History Project at The City University of New York, and a friend and comrade of Roy’s for almost 30 years. The second hardest thing I did in preparing for today was finding a red shirt to…

I am Betsy Blackmar, and I am one of the many people in this room who arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 1970s very uncertain as to what exactly we were doing. Roy helped us figure that out. What do you do when you don’t know what you are doing? You organize a reading group; you…

Good afternoon.

I’m Kathi Brown, a former student of Roy’s...as well as former neighbor...and also a friend. I met Roy more than 20 years ago when I first entered the evening Masters program in History at GMU. I also had the privilege of being one of Roy’s research assistants on…

For the past two years I worked closely with Roy as the administrative assistant for the Center. In spite of the fact that most of my work was on the clerical and mundane side- budgets to update, forms to have signed- I now recognize that my job entailed more than just merging cells on a…