Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home

Skye: Norm loved life and value so. We first met by accident the very day I arrived for my first year at MIT's Baker house September 1953 almost 60 years ago! He had recently emerged from the Pacific Theater of the War. He later was to steer me into Robert S Hartman's axiology courses at MIT, where we shared so many good times, extending to later contacts in Mexico, culminating with Hartman's untimely death when Hilda and I went to his afternoon funeral as the red sun set there in Cuernavaca on 20 September 1973. -So many megaevents seem to pass in September - Hartman always thought so highly of Norman as founder of programmed Axiology, a carrier of the flame. Then there was our glorious coming together when you all drove all the way down to meet with us at the Cliff House at our 50th 1957 MIT Class reunion in 2007. Then those last too few memorable phone conversations and emails over the next 5 years. I am struck somehow again by the refrains of Tennyson, "For now I see the true old times are dead, when every morning brought a noble chance, and every chance brought out a noble knight. But now the whole Round Table is dissolved which was an image of the mighty world, . . . . And the days darken round me, and the years . . . . ." Skye, our allotted time together seems now far too thin. I somehow cannot imagine a world without Norm and just hope against hope you will able to carry on with that wonderful mission of the Autognomics Institute. Just the other day I took some first steps in trying to set up a Website patterned on yours to get some gravity science and lifetime firsts out before it is also too late for me. Please do let me know any and all arrangements, details, mentions. Love to both of you from me and Hilda forever. Jim 9/7/2012 Jim Keith