Joe Libertson
Sue Post (later Sue Jones) was my late wife Susan's roommate at Northwestern University. My first memory of Sue is of Susan telling me Sue walked into the dorm room cool as a cucumber and said "I broke up with my boyfriend."
My second memory is of Sue and Mike Jones coming up to my apartment over "The Hut" restaurant (where there was a coffee pot stuck to the top of the refrigerator, nobody could move it) and Sue and Mike talked until 3 a.m. After that they were an item, they got married and had children, they visited Susan and me in Wallingford when I was teaching at Yale, Amanda was perhaps three months old. I stroked Amanda's forehead with my finger to keep her calm. She is now a partner in a large law firm in Honolulu.
Many years later, when Mike and Sue were in Kaneohe and Mike was a professor of Physics at the University of Hawaii, they would fly over to Maui and have dinner with me at the Maui Prince Hotel.
Sue was quiet, self-effacing, but under that surface strong as an ox. Her professional accomplishments were many and varied. She was one of the most competent people I have ever known.
Unfortunately, anno domine being the worst complaint of all, illness caught up with Sue (like Susan) and killed her.
But memory is as enduring as death. I will always think of her with great respect and affection, and wish I had known her better.
Joe Libertson