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<DIV>Justin, Please add my name Benny Widyono to the list. </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 5/17/2008 2:38:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
zolaa@mozart.inet.co.th writes:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dear
Justin,<BR><BR>Thank you for including me.<BR><BR>Yes, please add my name to
the letter. I only met <BR>her a few times, but she was indeed an
inspirational person.<BR><BR>Best regards, Tony Zola<BR>Anthony M.
Zola<BR>Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Resources Development
Specialist<BR><BR>Office:<BR>124/170 Moo 1, Piyawararom Village,
Bungyeetho<BR>Phraongchaosai Road (Khlong 4)<BR>Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani
12130, Thailand<BR><BR>tel. (+66) (0) 2152-2348; fax: (+66) (0)
2152-2350<BR>Thai cell phone: (+66 8) (0) 9206-9377; Lao cell phone: (+856-20)
551-1369<BR>email addresses: zolaa@inet.co.th and
zolaam@gmail.com<BR><BR>Postal address:<BR>P.O. Box 42, Thanyaburi<BR>Pathum
Thani 12110, Thailand<BR><BR>At 01:54 PM 5/17/2008, justinm@ucr.edu
wrote:<BR>>Dear All,<BR>><BR>>Please see the letter of condolence for
Roxanna <BR>>Brown's family attached and below. If you <BR>>haven't
signed your name to it and still would <BR>>like to, please do not hesitate
to contact me.<BR>><BR>>Thank you,<BR>>justin<BR>><BR>>Dear
Family, Friends, and Colleagues of Dr. Roxanna Brown,<BR>><BR>>When a
great and good person is taken from us, <BR>>the shock calls upon us to
freeze the daily <BR>>whirl of activities and face an irreparable loss in
our lives.<BR>><BR>>Your sister, your mother, your daughter, Roxanna
<BR>>Maude Brown was such a person. She touched so <BR>>many lives
over the course of her own. A <BR>>growing chorus of admiration and
affection <BR>>attests to the broad reach of her life and
work.<BR>><BR>>Roxanna's journey took her from the role of
<BR>>journalist, the conscience of a nation,<BR>>documenting from the
ground the unfolding <BR>>tragedy of Vietnam, to her discovery of
what<BR>>would be her life's work buried literally <BR>>beneath her
feet: the ceramics of Southeast<BR>>Asia. More than once her pursuit
of ceramics <BR>>study through the countryside of Southeast Asia
<BR>>aroused the suspicion of the forces locked in <BR>>mortal combat
swirling around her. Amidst the <BR>>horror of war, it must have been
hard for them <BR>>to see the innocence of her search for kilns and
shards.<BR>><BR>>Roxanna became a leading figure in the study of
<BR>>Southeast Asian ceramics, and the culture of <BR>>which they were a
part. Her keen eye and vast <BR>>empirical knowledge allowed her to
shape <BR>>theories of historical development in Southeast <BR>>Asia
that challenged accepted paradigms. That <BR>>she was able to pursue
her work and achieve what<BR>>she did without the force of institutional
<BR>>structure supporting her was remarkable. When<BR>>she
ascended to the Directorship of the <BR>>Southeast Asia Ceramics Museum,
she seemed at<BR>>last fitted with the platform from which to make
<BR>>manifest for the benefit of the public her<BR>>lifetime of
study. The museum is a testament to <BR>>her sensibility and the
rigor of her<BR>>scholarship. We hope it remains true to her
ideals.<BR>><BR>>Many have spoken of her achievements as a
<BR>>scholar, her unique place in her chosen field of <BR>>study.
For those of us who were blessed to know <BR>>her personally, her
friendship was equally to be <BR>>cherished. All of us have our own
stories of <BR>>Roxanna, our testimonials as friends and
<BR>>colleagues. Her irrepressible, infectious <BR>>enthusiasm for
Southeast Asian ceramics spread a <BR>>charmed field of energy about all
who came in <BR>>contact with her. She moved with equal grace
<BR>>through mansions and the most modest of <BR>>dwellings. She
asked for little and shared <BR>>much. Her gentle generosity and
unjudgemental <BR>>acceptance of difference and frailty in a field
<BR>>all too often marred by intolerance and avarice <BR>>made her a
loved as well as respected figure.<BR>><BR>>But, compounding this
tragedy, this is not a <BR>>moment of grief at the loss of a loved
one<BR>>slipping away from us after a full, rich life, <BR>>surrounded
by friends and family, whose last<BR>>moments are made as safe and soft as
material <BR>>comforts can permit. This is a moment
of<BR>>mischance. This is a moment of horror. This is <BR>>a
moment of grief not only for the friend we <BR>>have lost, but anguish for
the suffering, the <BR>>unjust, unnecessary, suffering of her last days
<BR>>and nights on earth. A vulnerable, trusting, <BR>>undemanding
soul thrust alone into the<BR>>netherworld of the institutional at its most
<BR>>cold and brutal. It is unspeakable.<BR>><BR>>Many of us
have discussed how best to pursue the <BR>>questions that arise concerning
the<BR>>circumstances of her most tragic and untimely <BR>>death.
We wish to be sensitive to your feelings <BR>>and desires as we move
forward. We feel there <BR>>are many who need to answer for what has
<BR>>happened. We do not seek to return vengeance <BR>>for
victimization, but we seek illumination, and justice.<BR>><BR>>It is not
only the cruelty of Roxanna's <BR>>incarceration we seek to redress, but
the slur<BR>>cast upon her name by the accusations that <BR>>prompted
her arrest. For a scholar of such<BR>>integrity, who tirelessly
sought to raise the <BR>>level of ethical practice in the trade
in<BR>>ceramics, it is a cruel irony that her <BR>>reputation has been
thus tainted. We cannot<BR>>bring back Roxanna, but we can try our
best to <BR>>clear her of any shadow of wrongdoing, and <BR>>restore her
good name for the future.<BR>><BR>>For all of us who knew her as a
scholar and as a <BR>>person, we will remember her always as she
<BR>>was--dedicated, generous, gentle, warm. Roxanna will be greatly
missed.<BR>><BR>>In sorrow,<BR>>Caverlee Cary<BR>>Nhung Tuyet
Tran<BR>>Pattaratorn Chirapravati<BR>>Hiram Woodward<BR>>Craig
Reynolds<BR>>Melody Rodari<BR>>Alicia Carlos<BR>>Charles
Keyes<BR>>Joyce Clark<BR>>Judith Henchy<BR>>Susan
Kepner<BR>>Rebecca Hall<BR>>Louise Cort<BR>>Michele
Thompson<BR>>Robert Brown<BR>>Emmy Bunker<BR>>Shawn
McHale<BR>>Edward Miller<BR>>Boreth Ly<BR>>Bonnie
Brereton<BR>>Charles Wheeler<BR>>Carol Stratton<BR>>Charnvit
Kasetsiri<BR>>H. Leedom Lefferts<BR>>BJ Terwiel<BR>>Louis
Gabaude<BR>>Thak Chaloemtiarana<BR>>Stanley O’Connor<BR>>Barbara
Gaerlan<BR>>Nguyen-Vo Thu-Huong<BR>>Richard Page<BR>>Eric Charles
Thompson<BR>>Anne R Hansen<BR>>Philippe Peycam<BR>>Charles
Keith<BR>>Christina Firpo<BR>>Nicola Tannenbaum<BR>>Larry
Ashmun<BR>>Nora Taylor<BR>>William Lavely<BR>>Donald
Mccallum<BR>>Nguyen Ngoc BICH<BR>>Bin Wong<BR>>Nick
Menzies<BR>>Michael Ross<BR>>Philip Taylor<BR>>Darryl
Johnson<BR>>Laurie Sears<BR>>Paul Kratowska<BR>>Quynh
Kieu<BR>>Chan Kieu<BR>>Laichen Sun<BR>>Richard A. Ruth<BR>>Trude
Bennett<BR>>Justin McDaniel<BR>>Cari Coe<BR>>Jim Cobbe<BR>>Scott
Laderman<BR>>John Stevenson<BR>>Karen Adams<BR>>Ben
Kerkvliet<BR>>David Rehfuss<BR>>Hue-Tam Ho Tai<BR>>Sarah Grant and
many many others<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>______________<BR>>Dr.
Justin McDaniel<BR>>Dept. of Religious Studies<BR>>3046
INTN<BR>>University of California, Riverside<BR>>Riverside, CA
92521<BR>>951-827-4530<BR>>justinm@ucr.edu<BR>><BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>Tlc
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