Our friend and colleague Lou Roseman

We were touched by the news from the college president's office Monday
that Social Sciences instructor Lou Roseman had died over the Thanksgiving weekend.
As Kathy Reilly reported, Lou's family has asked that donations to the
Walnut Creek Peace Center be given in lieu of flowers.

To honor Lou's life, work, and our memories of him, The RP is collecting from any and all
who would like to make a college-wide donation in his name.

The Walnut Creek Peace Center is a fitting place for a gift honoring Lou, of course.
In his DVC career he not only taught across the Social Sciences curriculum but also
started the Volunteer Center, which not only sent hundreds of students into the community
to vounteer their time and energy to the social good but also set an example for us of the activist educator
engaged in the lives of his students and the life of his community.

This carried into his even MORE public career, as Lou served on the Contra Costa County Human Relations Commission
and the Crisis and Suicide Prevention Planning Committee.

And he was a wonderful colleague, generous with his time, gracious with his conversation, warm and open
with this new part-timer in 1988, and supportive as I made my way into the full-time ranks a decade later.
He was a model of HOW one could be at Diablo Valley College.

We'll take donations of any size. Send them to James O'Keefe at DVC. Of course we'll include your name on the card.

Also, if you'd like to sign the Contra Costa Times' Guestbook for Lou, or see what others have
had to say in his honor, go to

http://legacy.com/ContraCostaTimes/GB/GuestbookEntry.aspx?&PersonID=20113963

Finally, if anyone has a digitialized photo we can post here, please email to dvcrestorationproject@yahoo.com. We'll credit the photo, naturally!

--James