Peter Podore '73

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1. Peter was an honors research student of mine who began research the summer after his sophomore year. I had a faculty leave his junior year and he continued in the lab while I was away at UCLA. He completed the work his senior year and also became our 1 and 4- year old children’s favorite baby sitters.

   He was bright, enthusiastic and engaged in everything he did. I am pleased that we maintained contact throughout his life and only sadly learned of his tragic bike accident.

   Peter gave all in everything he did. He brightened many lives and healed many patients. His passing is a true loss.

2. Peter lived above me in Sage F Freshman year. Upon my first attempt to meet other residents of the entry, I heard music playing behind Peter’s door and knocked. Inhaling a familiar aroma, I decided to have some fun and compliment him on how nice his room smelled. Peter was a bit disconcerted until I assured him that I was not unacquainted with the source of the aroma. We became friends. He was smart with good taste in music and had a charming personal manner.He was one of the ambitious and hard working pre-med members of the class but took time out to have fun. That did not just involve use of his ingeniously devised means of delivery vehicles for the source of the aroma but also listening to and playing music together with him on bass and Roger Luchs and me on guitars. We did a passable version of Zappa’s cover of “WPLJ’. Junior year Peter, Roger, and I shared a suite (along with Oscar Dominquez-who translated Roy Estrada’s risque Mexican/Spanish lyrics in the closing vamp of the above song) in the first year of Mission Park. That year all of us started working much harder, Peter in chemistry and I in history of ideas (including history of science) and philosophy, and Peter and I knocked heads in arguments about the philosophy of science.

   We lost touch after college, but I am sad and disappointed that I will not be re-connecting with him at our 50th reunion.