December 8, 2009
Oh Tim, Oh Susse, I am so so sorry.
You were such a bright light.
At CPCS where Tim was part of an amazing study group with a bunch of us and Jim Green, we used to say that he had driven an oil truck through social history. Jim O’Halloran and I used to make fun of his accent, beginning many a sentence with “twas” as in “twas the night before Christmas…” Tim had been everywhere, done everything but had an understated way about him…he had no need to show you how much he knew, but you soon figured it out.
We used to trek up endless stairs to have parties and dinners at Tim and Susse’s house in the North End and to talk for hours about the fate of the labor movement.
When I began graduate school, Tim helped peel me off the wall and helped me write one of my first papers.
I always envied the life-long friendship and intellectual partnership he had with Jeremy Brecher…What an amazingly fruitful relationship!
I look forward to reading other’s comments and to getting together in Boston sometime to soon to toast our dear friend.
Janice Fine