Tributes & Remarks

Chancellor Pernsteiner's Prayer

Oregon University System Chancellor George Pernsteiner's prayer
Martha Anne Dow private life celebration service
Oct. 6, 2007

Lord, please grant Martha Anne well-deserved peace and rest; peace and rest earned through a lifetime of energetic, selfless service to family, friends, students, and community. May she, indeed, dwell in your house, the House of the Lord, forever.

Give us the strength to face each new day the way Martha Anne faced life-

With grace
With joy in the accomplishments of others
With vision, perseverance, and with buoyant optimism

Most of all, Lord, infuse us with Martha Anne's courage, persistence, humility, and absolute commitment to family, friends, community, and students so that our lives and work can be inspired by hers and, through her inspiration, we can be true servant leaders of our families, of our community, and of humanity. Let us, indeed, be the prayer from the earth back to God.

This we ask in Jesus' name.

Amen

Chris Frazier's Memories

ASOIT President Chris Frazier's memories
Martha Anne Dow life celebration services
Oct. 13, 2007

Every once in a lifetime a leader comes along and leaves a legacy unmatched by any who follow. I had the privilege of working very closely with President Dow on many occasions. Some of my most cherished memories with her are:

• Having dinner at her house with all of the student body officers. I remember her greeting us all at the door and hanging up our coats. To me that small act of service showed just how humble she really was.
• Many hours spent together at 7am working on strategic planning. She was always bright eyed, bushy tailed, ready to tackle the task at hand. I know she was neglecting her own health for the sake of the school and although it wasn't a good idea to do so, it proves just how dedicated she was to this campus and the students.
• No problem seemed too small in her eyes. As student body president, there were many issues I brought to her attention and she never once made me feel inferior or like those issues weren't important.
• She was always seeking student input. When she first thought of creating the CHP, she came to us as student body officers and asked for our opinions and thoughts. I remember being so impressed that she would spend that much time finding out what we thought. She would often come to our meetings just to be around and participate. I never once felt like she was some ominous being sitting up in her nice corner office of Snell Hall.
• I loved that she would sometimes eat lunch in the marketplace. She would always say hi to me when passing in the hall. She very easily could have snubbed us students or carried on with her duties but she always seemed to be mindful of what was in our best interest.
• You could always tell she had a passion and love for what she was doing. She loved teaching and being around students. She also had a sense of humor. One of my favorite OTB skits is "A Day in the Life of Martha Anne Dow." It's refreshing to see a president dedicate so much time to being in a skit and it shows her love for students and sense of humor. There is one particular part in the skit that is my favorite because it's exactly the opposite of how she treated people. The ASOIT president, who at the time was Leif, was talking with her in her office and the skit portrays her thinking to herself "doesn't this kid ever shut up? All he says is ‘I think, I feel blah blah blah.'"
• I loved taking Christmas pictures with President Dow. Every holiday season, we'd decorate the fireplace and President Dow would come and take a picture with us for the website and Christmas cards. I remember later meeting with her in her office and seeing a copy of that picture framed and on her desk. It was really meaningful to me.
• I remember last year at the snowflake parade, we ASOIT officers and the fraternity made a float and rode it in the parade. When we got to the end of the street, Martha Anne and Gary were sitting in the car watching the parade and her face lit up as we drove by and you could tell she was so excited to see us. After the parade she sent me an email thanking us for our work in representing the school at the parade.
• She supported us when we decided to withdraw from OSA. She stood by us and even mentioned it at the OUS board meeting. You could tell that she was proud of us and to be our president. It made us all feel like we were important and known in her eyes.

I attribute my leadership abilities to three people, Joe, Jane and Martha Anne. I learned many lessons on being an effective leader from watching her on various occasions. She was truly a great leader and has left an amazing legend.

Congressman Walden's Remarks

Remarks By Congressman Greg Walden
At the Memorial Service for Martha Anne Dow
Klamath Falls, Oregon, October 13, 2007

A little more than a month ago, I came to Klamath Falls to participate in the celebration of the opening of the Center for Health Professionals. Make that the Martha Anne Dow Center for Health Professionals,

At least that's what the entry on my calendar said. But my real reason for attending was because my friend Martha Anne had asked me to participate and I so very much wanted to see her and to not let her down. It was so nice to say hello to her and to welcome her home again.

Now, just a few short weeks later, we gather to say goodbye. And, that's simply not easy to do, not for me, not for Gary and her family, not for this community she loved so much...not for our state.

Martha Anne's vision for Oregon Tech and this community extended farther than most of us could see...like looking up into one of those clear Klamath Falls nights where the sky goes on forever.

And she had the rare ability to translate her vision of the future for Oregon Tech into meaningful action. In her calm, quiet, no-nonsense way, she took action and made things happen. Never theatrical, never self-serving, never a bad word about others, Martha Anne just kept a positive attitude and made forward progress.

The depth of her ability and integrity were like the waters of Crater Lake, which she loved so much: clear and oh, so deep.

She was a person with great pride...not the boastful kind of self-aggrandizing pride, but the quiet pride in seeing others accomplish their goals, and helping them get there. From the victories of the Hustlin' Owls, the research at the Oregon Renewable Energy Center, or the Intel Fellow who had just graduated and been hired, Martha Anne was so proud. I remember walking around the campus with her as she pointed out the quality of the grounds keeping and talked about plans to make Oregon Tech the first totally geothermally energized campus in America. She was proud of every person who taught and worked at Oregon Tech for who they were and what they did. Rank held no favor. Each individual mattered.

And her pride was not about her...it was always about others. Plain and simple, she was proud of all that she touched because she loved the people with whom she worked and was so proud of what they accomplished.

Each of us will continue to see evidence of the rich legacy of this truly remarkable woman, and we will know that we really cannot say goodbye to her, because so much of her lives on in this community.

Yes, she will be in our thoughts often, but she will live stronger in our hearts. She is in our hearts because she became a part of us.

In an open letter printed late last month in the Herald and News, Martha Anne said, "I've long known the importance of what others have given me. However, I never realized that in turn I was affecting others."

That statement is so Martha Anne. She knew she had a mission in life to help others, but she never paused to realize just how much she affected those around her.

Her ways reminded me of the poem by Will Allen Dromgoole called the Bridge Builder:

An old man, going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.

The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned, when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.

"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near,
"You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide-
Why build you a bridge at the eventide?"

The builder lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today,
A youth, whose feet must pass this way.

This chasm, that has been naught to me,
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."

I am as certain that Martha Anne was a bridge builder as I am that she is in heaven today. Although Heaven is supposed to be a perfect place, you can bet that Martha Anne and god have already had one or two significant conversations on how to make some improvements...and God has agreed with her plan.

We are very grateful that Martha Anne was with us to be such a loving wife, mother and grandmother. We are grateful that she led us to higher accomplishments and taught us in so many good ways. We are thankful that she set high standards and goals, and the benefits of her good work will accrue for generations to come. We can each be thankful that Martha Anne was a part of our world.

So, today, none of us are really saying goodbye to Martha Anne, we are coming together to say "THANK YOU" Martha Anne, for all that you did for us. We miss you. We will do our best to follow you vision and keep your work moving forward. And we will never let you down.

Congressman Walden's Statement on Dow's Death

STATEMENT BY CONGRESSMAN GREG WALDEN ON THE PASSING OF MARTHA ANNE DOW
September 20, 2007 - HOOD RIVER, Ore. - Congressman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) today released the following statement on the passing of Dr. Martha Anne Dow:

"My deepest sympathies go out to Gary and her family. Martha Anne was a personal friend and a terrific inspiration. Her enthusiasm and vision accomplished great things for Oregon Institute of Technology and for the people of Klamath County. She gave so much of herself to better Oregon Tech and expected nothing in return for herself. Her quiet, effective leadership made a lasting mark on Oregon Tech and more importantly on the academic future of the students who have and will study there."

Congressman Greg Walden represents the Oregon's Second Congressional District, which is comprised of 20 counties in eastern, southern, and central Oregon. He is a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and a member of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

Danny Miles Tribute

My most fond memories of the many I have about Martha Anne were associated with our trip to China during the summer of 2005. Gary and Martha Anne accompanied our basketball team for a 16-day trip that included five games against the Chinese national university team and one of their top professional teams.

The first night after arrival, we played at one of their leading universities in front of crowd of nearly 6,000. The temperature was in the 90s with no air conditioning. We were also suffering from jet lag, having traveled for more than 12 hours. My wife Judie, Gary, Martha Anne, and Mike Schell our athletic director were all placed in a VIP section high in the middle of the arena. We were making a great comeback late in the game, and I glanced up to see if our four fans were as excited as we were. I guess not, Martha Anne and Judie were sound asleep.

Later, on the same trip, we were told that we needed to wear our LiNing T-shirts the first three days of our trip to advertise for our very generous sponsors. How many women would do that in 90 degree heat and no laundry available? Martha Anne did and, of course, took a lot of grief from the entire group for the next three days.

When we drove along the Yangtze River, there was a 500-foot cliff down to the river, and our bus driver decided to pass several cars going uphill on several corners. We were all screaming on the bus. Thank God President Bush was with us, and the driver quit passing on curves. It seems that somewhere in the translation several of the Chinese at our destinations and on the bus thought Martha Anne was President Bush.

I have many great stories and wonderful memories of two of my favorite people - Gary and Martha Anne Dow. God bless them both.

Danny Miles
Head Men's Basketball Coach

Di Saunders' Poem, Di Saunders' Poetry

Counting on Martha Anne

Martha Anne...
We're still counting on you,
You know.
Counting on that incredible smile to help us through our days
Full of intelligence, kindness and wit
That could coax a salmon from a bear's mouth
Change the mind of the most stubborn legislator
And probably get your grandkids to eat their peas.

And Martha Anne
We're also counting on the wisdom and love
That radiated from your beautiful eyes
To serve as a patch for the hole in our hearts,
a memory bandage that will help us heal
As much as one can heal when a friend and mentor
Like you is no longer down the hall or in the room
Or on the phone to advise, coach, make us feel better
than we did before your melodic voice cheered us on.

And Martha Anne
We're counting on you to give your family and friends the strength
We now need to take us into the next day
To bring you forth when we're sad and the gray days are long.

And we're counting on you because
you've always come through before
You'll always come through still
As your presence is strong enough to bring each of us up
to the potential you recognized
Before we even knew it was there.

Now count on us, Martha Anne,
to make you proud
As we hold tight and nurture your legacies
Now and always
Yes, count on us Martha Anne.

With love and respect,
Di Saunders
October 6, 2007

Emeritus Chancellor Cox's Comments

Joseph W. Cox
Chancellor Emeritus
The Oregon University System
October 13, 2007

When I was growing up, one of the few magazines we had in our home was the Reader's Digest, in which my favorite column was "The Most Unforgettable Character." I don't know if it is even still published but if it is, Martha Anne ought to be a candidate for inclusion.

From the minute we first met, I knew that here was someone quite special and I resolved, I think at that point, that if there were ever an opportunity to appoint her to lead the Oregon Institute of Technology, it ought to happen. I have heard people say that her appointment as President was something of a risk, one that worked out wonderfully. That is nonsense. She and the presidency were made for each other and she was a success from the start.

In this deceptively soft spoken, mild mannered, demure, diminutive package was a fiercely determined dynamo whose love for Oregon Tech was at the core of her being. She saw clearly what the institution might yet become and nothing was going to stop that trajectory. At her investiture, some of you will recall that an individual from the community with a sense of humor brought a small box to the stage and placed it behind the podium while making some comment about her height. Without a moment's hesitation, she mounted the box and delivered her address from that higher elevation.

There was sharp wit and sense of humor and an irascible drive not to be outscored. I will just tell you one of many stories: I was devoted to a particular sweet pickle that she made and when I was laid up after a heart attack in September 01, she flew up to make some calls in Salem and visit with me, intending to bring me a jar of those pickles. Well, of course, it was just weeks after 9-11 and so airport security confiscated the jar of treasured pickles saying they would dispose of them. After protesting mightily, she boarded the plane with the parting shot, "I hope they give you all indigestion."

That wit and candor would serve her well as Oregon Tech weathered the storms of financial ups and downs and throughout it all she never allowed the campus to see anything but a resolute leader who would get them through it all. Her presidential colleagues will tell you that they admired and respected her and thoroughly enjoyed working with her, particularly in working with the Legislature.

However, it is here in this community that her influence and impact has understandably been greatest. She created a new partnership with the city, the county, and the private sector that is enduring and will return benefits for years to come. Oregon Tech is now in the community and region and of it in ways that are too numerous to count.

When Harvard lost its beloved president, Charles William Eliot, there was an immediate rush to erect an appropriate monument. The debate continued for some time until a senior faculty member rose in the meeting and ended the discussion by saying, "President Eliot needs no monument....just look around at the university...that is his monument." The same could be said of President Martha Anne Dow.

Gerda Hyde Tribute

My memories of Martha Anne Dow are many. All are very positive - she made everyone feel good and equal. She knew no stranger and everyone was important to her.

One time stands out in my mind. After the Klamath Tribes gave a sizeable donation to the Center for Health Professions, she wanted to thank them personally. We had lunch at our home with CHP members and some of the Tribal Council. She made every person in the room comfortable and feel good about Oregon Tech. I will always remember the Tribal Council Chairman and the Oregon Tech President sitting together at the table, enjoying the day and finding out that we were all part of a great community.

Martha Anne had a tremendous ability to be able to talk with anyone and make them feel important.

I do miss a very good friend, but I am lucky to have known her and Gary. Good memories are a special thing.

Gerda Hyde
Oregon Tech Foundation Board of Directors Member
Owner, Yamsi Ranch

Jenny Kellstrom Tribute

I have so many memories of Martha Anne, but an incident that happened several years after I began teaching at Oregon Tech really had an impact on me and allowed me to see Martha Anne from a whole different perspective.

At the time, Martha Anne was the Provost, and I was a new instructor in the imaging department. To me, the Provost would be the last person that I would ever want to be summoned by for any kind of encounter.

So, when I received a phone call from the Provost's Office requesting my presences for a meeting, I about died! I replayed every classroom encounter with every student I had ever come in contact with to try to figure out why The Provost would want to see me. After agonizing over this meeting for several days, I went to my Department Chair Al Bello to ask him if he knew what was going on. He assured me that Martha Anne just wanted to visit with me and ask about my progress on my Master's degree. "Oh, my gosh," I thought. My degree was going so slowly, with teaching assignments, family, committee work, etc. I was afraid that I would never get it done. I told Al that I was pretty sure that she was going to fire me for not getting it done in a timely manner. Al laughed and assured me that would not be the case. He really could not ease my fears, so he offered to attend this meeting with me. I gladly accepted his offer.

Several days later we went to Martha Anne's office, where she greeted me warmly and chit chatted about this and that. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the axe to drop! Sure enough, as it turned out she just wanted to chat with me. She asked about my family, how my graduate degree was going, how my teaching was going. She shared her personal stories about getting her master's when her kids were little and taking her kids to Hawaii with her when she got her Ph.D. She knew how difficult was to juggle all of the responsibilities of a working Mom and educator. She told me to "not give up" and that she would help me in any way to achieve my goals. She truly meant it, too! At that moment I knew that she was a wonderful, caring, and generous person who cared very much about the faculty she led.

I will always remember Martha Anne for her generosity and caring nature. She was never too busy to stop and chat when our paths crossed. I will miss seeing her smiling face on campus, and I will especially miss seeing her at all of the basketball games!

Jenny Kellstrom
Associate Professor
Medical Imaging Technology

Joemae Cox Tribute

As I walk across campus, I think of Martha Anne. Especially when I see the fountain running and I remember how it looked from her office window when I worked for her in the Provost's office. Or when I park near Snell Hall and remember seeing her walk from her car to her office with her big briefcase and armful of folders. My memories of her are strong as I view the Dow Center, knowing how important that building was to her, and I'm so glad that she was able to attend the grand opening.

My favorite memory is when Martha Anne handed me my SOU Master in Management diploma during the Oregon Tech 2002 Commencement ceremony. It was such a happy day for me, and I was so pleased that the ceremony took place at Oregon Tech with President Dow presiding. It makes me smile now just thinking about that special moment in time.

Joemae B. Cox
Faculty Support Services Manager
Distance Education Department

Julie Del Carlo's Memories

Martha Anne Dow's daughter Julie's Memories
Life celebration services
Oct. 6 & 13, 2007

As one of Martha Anne's children, I learned to love animals, bugs, fossils, frogs, flowers, books, people and many other creatures. Some of my fondest childhood memories revolve around family field trips to collect big green grasshoppers, Montana wild flowers, tadpoles, and even trilobite fossils. She would put all these specimens into organized collections to decorate her classrooms and laboratories when she taught classes at Northern Montana College. I always felt like I was part of her world at the college. Every Sunday afternoon when we were in grade school mom would load us into her yellow station wagon and we would head to her biology lab to help her set up for her lab class on Monday. My very first job, at the tender age of 9, was washing test tubes for a 5 cents a piece. We kids loved to write on the big classroom chalkboard and spent hours playing school. I wanted to be a teacher just like my mom. Our world revolved around my mom's love of science and the joy she experienced at sharing this love with everyone who had the good fortune to cross her path.

My Mom's family included, not only her husband and 3 children, but, also living creatures of many different species. We never knew what mom was going to bring home from the college. Not only did we live with typical pets, cats a dog or two, but also Chinese rats, little white mice, bunnies, turtles, frogs, fish and at one time even sea horses. Our family loved these creatures even though our friends and especially our friends' parents made comments about our "Dr. Doo Little Life Style." I loved the fact that mom was a Dr. Doo Little. She introduced me to an exciting world in which I thought I might like to become a zoologist or possibly a veterinarian some day.

My mom also loved the teeny tiny creatures. They lived in the refrigerator at our house in test tubes and petri dishes. I remember a particular time when a babysitter pulled a petri dish out of the refrigerator looking somewhat mystified and maybe a little horrified as well. I was happy to explain to her that the little red and green specs in the dish were my mom's teeny tiny bugs that were eating a special jello. They were very important to my mom; so, she had better not try to eat them or throw them away! One of my mom's passions was microbiology. I had the privilege to attend college with her at the University of Hawaii. We were students together; she was working on her PHD in Microbiology and I my Bachelor's in Dental Hygiene. Our time together as a family in Hawaii is at the top of the list for the highlights of my life. I realize now that when she took our family to Hawaii it took an incredible amount of courage. Not every mom and wife just decides one day to go after a Phd in microbiology and packs up her 2 daughters and a friend of one of the daughter's, tells her husband to take care of himself and her son, that he can visit when he is done plowing and planting the spring wheat and her son is out of school for Christmas break. It's a good thing that this husband, my incredibly supportive and loving dad, understood and loved my mom enough to allow her to spread her wings and fly. Nothing was impossible and nothing would stand in Mom's way once she accepted the scholarship from the University of Hawaii's East/West Center. The adventure to Hawaii, after all, was just another one of mom's exciting family field trips. However, this field trip involved a lot more hard work. Mom spent hours in the lab at the UH growing her precious Isignoma shell fish out which she was able to culture and study the hepatitis virus. I observed her tenacity for studying, hard work and dedication. Thinking of mom spending 14 hours a day in her lab made me feel real guilty when I'd cut class and head to the beach to watch surfing contests. She was an incredible role model. Without her good example I could very easily have ended up a beach bum.

My mom was President of Oregon Tech, yet to me she was mom. To my children she was a grandmother that they called Nana. Yes, I am incredibly proud of all of her accomplishments, including the new Health Center. After spending time in Klamath Falls during the dedication of the Health Center and hearing about all the other marvelous things that she has done over the past 15 years not only for Oregon Tech but for the Klamath community as well, I feel truly overwhelmed and a little amazed that I am even related to this woman. I wish that she would have told me about all the amazing things that she has done. Isn't that just like her, though? Always humble and always gracious. If only I could do a fraction of the good that she has done for so many people. It saddens me to know that so many will miss her. I can't imagine, though, that anyone could miss her more than I, because, she was my mom.

All my love to you, Mom
Jutz

Kevin Dow's Memories

Martha Anne Dow's son Kevin's Memories
Life celebration services
Oct. 6 & 13, 2007

I remember mom for her love of science. When we were kids, she would haul us around to Beaver Creek collecting water samples at different spots along the creek. She used to love the workshops in the Bear Paw Mountains doing science things. She had bug collections and fossil collections. She would take us out to dig up fossils in the badlands near Havre and there was always some rocks or fossils in the garage that would lie around for years. I remember her being the leader of my Ranger Rick club. It was an outdoor club that we actually signed up to be a club and got the club magazine. She would take myself and my friends (Matt, Wade Dolan, Jeff Milam, and others) out on adventures. Usually it would be to collect fossils or study different kinds of wild flowers. I remember one time she set up something with someone at the college to watch the mating of Sharp tail grouse out near the Bear Paws. She just loved being in the outdoors doing scientific kinds of things. She really loved being up at the cabin and taking hikes to Essex and up Dickey Creek road. I remember just a couple of years ago she walked up Dickey Creek with Hunter and I to watch Hunter catch a fish with his fly rod.

She was a lot like Grampa Eudy when it came to collecting things and never throwing things away. She never threw out anything she collected at the college, she had every nook and cranny of the house loaded with papers and books. She hadn't looked at any of the stuff for years, but when you asked if you could throw it away, she always said it was something she needed for school.

She always encouraged me to go to school and get my engineering degree. There was never any doubt when we were growing up that we would attend college. She never told me what to study to get my degree, but she always encouraged me to find something and then go after it.

Everything that Mom enjoyed had to do with learning and increasing your knowledge. Whether it was studying wild flowers in the Bear Paws, digging for fossils or learning about the family tree. She loved being outdoors and expanding her knowledge and everyone's knowledge around her. I think that she really enjoyed teaching and helping others learn more and better themselves by expanding their knowledge. I am really going to miss her.

I Love You Mom,
Kev

KOTI Tribute

Right person, right place, right time is an accurate description of Martha Anne's tenure at Oregon Tech. Her enthusiasm for Oregon Tech was irresistible. Martha Anne's greatest asset was her ability to energize support for Oregon Tech.

She won the heart and support of people with the first visit. Her sincerity, easy manner and often-joked-about diminutive size were disarming. Many people walked away from their introductory meeting with Martha Anne after making a commitment to Oregon Tech feeling surprisingly good about it. We at KOTI have been proud partners of Oregon Tech since starting the station on the original "OTI" campus in 1956.

We will miss but not forget Martha Anne Dow. More importantly her contributions to Oregon Tech will continue to benefit students, the Klamath Basin, the State of Oregon and many industries and businesses.

KOTI Ownership and Management: Patsy Smullin, Roger Harris, and Bob Wise

Larry Rapp Tribute

When I reflect on Martha Anne, it is impossible to document all of her accomplishments to better Oregon Tech, and the Klamath community. Also, it is impossible to describe the warmth and friendship she provided to everyone she knew.

I remember the effort she put into convincing me and others at ElectroScientific Industries to locate a facility in Klamath Falls. Without her contribution to that project, it would not have happened. But I soon learned Martha Anne approached all tasks with the same vigor and energy. It could be getting a new sign for the campus, or raising funds for a new building. It didn't matter - efforts large or small - once she was committed to the project she gave it her all. If she had a fault, it was faulting herself when something didn't go right even when she had no control over a situation - such as tuition increases, and the legislature failing to provide money for faculty pay increases.

We can all celebrate the fact she provide Oregon Tech and the Klamath community with a vision for its future and put in place key elements for that vision to succeed.

Larry Rapp
Oregon Tech Alumnus
President's Advisory Council Member

May al-Doori Tribute

I would love to say that I have from Dr. Martha Anne Dow a beautiful, personal card that I treasured so much. In it she expressed her kind words to me. I adored her and will keep remembering her as a symbol of the American academic working women. Throughout her illness, I sent her the following words:

"I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when am with you

"I love you, not only for what you have of yourself, but for what you are making of me

"I love you, for putting your hand into my heaped up heart, and passing over all the foolish weak things that you can't help seeing there,

"And for drawing out into the light all the beautiful belongings that no one else has looked quite far enough to find

"I love you, because you have done more than any creed could have done, to make me good, and more than any faith could have done to make me happy

"YOU have done it without a touch, without a word, without a sign

"You have done it by a being yourself

AND PERHAPS THAT IT IS WHAT BEING A FRIEND MEANS AFTER ALL"

I am a Muslim: I believe in this quotation which has been sent as a blessing to Jesus Christ, a Prophet in my Holy Book Qur'aan To Dr. Martha Anne...all the prayers ...MAY GOD Bless Her Amen.

Sincerely,
May al-Doori
Former academic consultant
Oregon Renewable Energy Center