If Reedies ‘take the road less traveled’, then Gabe was a true Reedie. He and I learned to Morris dance for Renn Fayre 1990. Two years later he headed off to Africa with the Peace Corps.
Gabe is joining the chemistry faculty at Franklin & Marshall College this summer as a biochemist with teaching responsibilities in general chemistry.
A nice story from Gabe’s Peace Corps period appears on the Franklin & Marshall web page:
“Let me tell you about my first encounter with Franklin and Marshall. This was in eastern Mali in the early ’90’s. The sun had just gone down, and I was stranded at some general store/gas station/pharmacy on the road to Koutiala, watching the moon come up, drinking tea with the proprietor. He turns to me and says, ‘Your sisters have arrived.’ Since I don’t really speak French, I figured I had badly misheard. Looking up the road, though, I do see a taxi sidle up out of the darkness. Sure enough, a white woman emerges, looking like you do when you spend four hours on marginally paved roads in a Peugeot 504 with ten other people. Fair enough. The next person to appear looks to have teleported in from a Gap advertisement, every shevel fully accounted for, glowing white T-shirt reading ‘Franklin & Marshall College’ in the moonlight. So, I’ve known for a long time that dust doesn’t even stick to F&M students.”