Gregory Hawkins Kirk Memorial Service, New Paltz, NY: 10/20/2018
There is only so much I can say...
Gregory Hawkins Kirk was a mentor to me as a thinker and a mathematical physicist, and a kind friend, but our time together was way too brief. Greg knew far too much for any one person to understand, or to be fully understood by others. He stood head and shoulders above the average College graduate, having a knowledge of Physics comparable to the best of the Nobel laureates and other top scholars I have met. So it is especially sad to lose a kind and gentle soul who might have actually saved the world - had he lived. My feeble brain can't quite fathom what he tried to teach me, though I try.
Greg had a kind of magical childhood for a person looking to go into STEM Education, because his Dad John R. Kirk ran the New Paltz planetarium, and was a Physics professor at the College. So there were frequent visits from Gerard K. O'Neill and occasionally people like Carl Sagan and Freeman Dyson - right there in his living room! So who wouldn't want to grow up to be one of the smartest people alive? And he also wanted to educate others to become superior scholars, but sadly he found it difficult to become a teacher as a multi-doc in America, which is close to the standard in parts of Europe.
By the time I met Greg; he was in a bind, and had fallen on hard times. But he seemed determined to do everything in his power to maximize the sustainability of life on planet Earth. His love for humanity made him become very selective about job opportunities, after seeing others of exceptional intelligence get chewed up by the system, and receiving his share of abuse. So here we celebrate the life of a friend with exceptional abilities, whose life ended much sooner than I or others would have liked or expected. Greg Kirk, who was Hawkins to some folks, was a rare human being the likes of which only comes around once.
May the bright wings of consciousness and imagination faithfully bear his memory onward.
Best,
Jonathan
Gregory Hawkins Kirk was a mentor to me as a thinker and a mathematical physicist, and a kind friend, but our time together was way too brief. Greg knew far too much for any one person to understand, or to be fully understood by others. He stood head and shoulders above the average College graduate, having a knowledge of Physics comparable to the best of the Nobel laureates and other top scholars I have met. So it is especially sad to lose a kind and gentle soul who might have actually saved the world - had he lived. My feeble brain can't quite fathom what he tried to teach me, though I try.
Greg had a kind of magical childhood for a person looking to go into STEM Education, because his Dad John R. Kirk ran the New Paltz planetarium, and was a Physics professor at the College. So there were frequent visits from Gerard K. O'Neill and occasionally people like Carl Sagan and Freeman Dyson - right there in his living room! So who wouldn't want to grow up to be one of the smartest people alive? And he also wanted to educate others to become superior scholars, but sadly he found it difficult to become a teacher as a multi-doc in America, which is close to the standard in parts of Europe.
By the time I met Greg; he was in a bind, and had fallen on hard times. But he seemed determined to do everything in his power to maximize the sustainability of life on planet Earth. His love for humanity made him become very selective about job opportunities, after seeing others of exceptional intelligence get chewed up by the system, and receiving his share of abuse. So here we celebrate the life of a friend with exceptional abilities, whose life ended much sooner than I or others would have liked or expected. Greg Kirk, who was Hawkins to some folks, was a rare human being the likes of which only comes around once.
May the bright wings of consciousness and imagination faithfully bear his memory onward.
Best,
Jonathan
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