[Oe List ...] Jean

[Clare Whitney]

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We are full of sorrow and gratitude for the life and death of Jean Long.  

I have loved Jean since I first met her but can not remember when that was, perhaps in 1973 during our first visit to a summer program.  I remember her as being amazingly kind and having a great voice.  Many years later she moved to Denver in 1987, after time in India, which she never stopped talking about.  She got a job at Denver University School of Law where she made a huge impact with a program she created on Elder Law.  It made a huge difference for a lot of seniors who attended.  She was a very strong advocate who used everything she ever learned in the Order to excellent purpose.  When she retired she took her pension to return to India with colleagues to see what happened since she left and added those stories to her India trove.

Her dedication to the Archives filled me with awe and we all owe her an enormous gratitude.  We will progress somehow with the work as yet undone and bless her putting the Archives on a working plane.

Jean we will miss you more than you can know.

Journey on.  Clare and Ken Whitney