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From: Manuela Weiss
Date: August 13, 2007
Dear Lauren,
Yesterday Erwin Appel informed me about the sudden death of your father.
It is very difficult for me to find the right words to express how sad I am that this had to happen to you and your family so soon.
Please keep in mind that for all the years i knew your father I had a very high opinion form him. He always had an open ear for all the big and small problems and tried to help as soon as possible with advice and reassuring words.
I count myself very lucky to have met him and will not forget him
I hope that time will heal the wound the sudden death of your father has caused in your life.
Look forward and try to go on.
With kindest regards
Manuela
August 6, 2007
Dear Lauren,
I got the new that your father Bill Goree died.. A big shock, we were exchanging emails last June, and he was promptly answering to all our questions to help us, as he always did..
I will remember of him as a great man, I have many remembrances of him, when he came to visit us and install our systems, also at the different AGU meetings and 2G parties... I will not forget its kindness, the kind attention he always had to others...
Please accept, you, your mother and your family, my sincere sympathy
Alain
Alain Mazaud,
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE)
Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
August 6, 2007
Dear Lauren -
My heartfelt condolences for your loss. I have had the greatest respect for your father and feel that his passing is a major loss to the entire paleomagnetic community on many levels, personal and professional. He was a great guy, and it sounds like he left his company and the things he did so well in good order.
As it happens, we had been working on nominating him for an honor in recognition of his long standing and invaluable contributions to our field . In fact, I submitted the complete nomination package (with truly outstanding supporting letters) literally on the day your announcement arrived. I don't know where matters stand at the moment but from the discussions thus far I am sure there is strong interest at AGU and EGU to organize a significant posthumous award for Bill Goree.
All the best,
Dennis
Dennis Kent
Department of Geological Sciences
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Paleomagnetics Lab
Palisades, NY
August 6, 2007
Dear Lauren,
I was extremely saddened to learn the news of your Father's passing. Bill was a truly great man and will be missed by many! Being a fellow Floridian I always felt a special kinship and admiration for Bill, though I am sure I am not alone as your Father had the unique gift of making others feel better about themselves when around him. I thought of your Father as a friend and an advisor and looked forward to the day that I could tell him that I would be able to buy one of his magnetometers. It looks like that day is near and I wish I could tell Bill...
Bill had a great life and a wonderful family and though we will also miss him greatly, I look forward to working with you on future orders.
Best wishes,
Joe
Joseph Stoner
Assistant Professor
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
August 7, 2007
Dear Lauren,
a few days ago Barbara and I were shocked to hear that your father has deceased.
I was lucky enough to have met him more than 30 years ago in Mountain View before we bought our first cryogenic magnetometer designed from first principles by him. Since then, countless palaeomagnetic data which revolutionized earth sciences, have been measured using his ingenious instruments. So I regret that a great physicist and remarkable developing engineer has passed away.
Much more important for me, however, was and still is that Bill was over all the years a man of high personal integrity and discretion. He was always very friendly when he came to Zürich or when we had questions to him. We were always delighted to see him not only as a technical expert of highest rank but much more also as friend coming to help us and talk with us about many issues not always related to science but also to personal relationship. We have lost a good friend and we are very sympathetic with you having lost your father.
Actually I remember some years ago you came along with him to Zurich when Barbara and I met with you both at Bill Lowrie's place. We were impressed by you praying for Bill Lowrie's health who had an attack that evening and had to go to hospital.
We wish that you can accept the situation and we are hopeful and believe that your father is still in the good hands of god.
All the best to you
Friedrich and Barbara Heller
Dr. Friedrich Heller
Prof. emer.
Institut für Geophysik
Zürich, Switzerland
Aug 5, 2007 8:09 AM
Subject: Warmest feelings
Dear Lynn, Michèle and I have just learnt upon return from a short
tour in the Eolian islands of Italy about the sad sad news. We both
want to tell you how much we loved Bill and how much we grieve with
you. The feeling of grief is exacerbated for us by the very recent
death of Michèle's father and the fact that the reason we urgently
retrurned from Italy was that my mother had to be hospitalized in very
serious condition. She is still there in intensive care... So we feel
and share your grief even more bitterly. Bill was an exceptional man
in so many ways. I hope to have occasions to see you in person in the
not too distant future to elaborate on this, on which I could go on
for an hour, as could the many many friends and scientists around the
world who depended on Bill both for scientific excellence and for warm
and deep friendship. Please tell Lauren how much Michèle and I will
think of you these coming days. With warmest, deepest sympathy,
Vincent and Michèle Courtillot
July 30, 2007
Lauren,
I just found out about your father's death and I wanted to express my most sincere condolences. After a long absence from paleomagnetism, I recently spoke with Bill about our system here at Univ. of Texas, and it brought back many wonderful memories of talking with him when I was a graduate student at Caltech in Joe Kirschvink's lab. Bill was always so eager to answer any questions and help with any problems, even if it turned out the answer was right there in the manual! Such a kind, patient man. And without his intellect, I don't know where the field of geology would be. The contributions of his work are far, far reaching. And having lost my own father to fast moving cancer, I have some idea of how you must feel right now.
Take care,
Jack Holt
John W. "Jack" Holt
Research Scientist
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences
Austin, TX
July 31, 2007
Dear Lauren,
I was greatly saddened by the news of your father's sudden passing away during my recent fieldtrip. Please pass my deepest condolences to the rest of your family, particular to your mother whom I saw together with your father just a few months ago.
I count your father as a great friend whom I was very privileged to know from the early 1990s. The magnetometer 2G developed over the years changed the paleomagnetic world forever. We will all miss your father dearly, but will continue our good working relationship with 2G in many future years.
Sincerely yours,
Zheng-Xiang Li
Z.X. Li, Professor
The Institute of Geoscience Research (TIGeR)
Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology
Perth, WA 6845, Australia
Subject: Condolences from Burgos Paleomagnetic Laboratory
Dear Lauren, colleagues and friends of Bill
I have received the news of the death of Bill Goree very sadly. As paleomagnetist, I realized, as well as all my colleagues, the importance of Bill's contribution to the development of geophysics. The systems designed by him have been one of the main causes of the boost to paleomagnetism during the last thirty decades. In addition, I could contact directly with him since we installed our 2G magnetometer in the Burgos Laboratory on 2004. Then, I could appreciate Bill's personality as a passionate, intelligent, responsible, hard working, creative, friendly, and above all, a very generous person with his time and work.
I would like to send you courage at this time and the best spirit and luck to continue his labour.
Finally we would like to send our heartfelt condolences.
Sincerely
Juanjo Villalaín, Manuel Calvo and the rest of researchers of the Burgos Paleomagnetic Laboratory
Laboratorio de Paleomagnetismo
Dep. de Física
Universidad de Burgos
Escuela Politécnica Superior
Burgos
Spain
Subject: Deepest Sympathies
Dear Lauren,
Please accept my deepest sympathies at the passing of your father, and my friend Bill. He was a great scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur, and we will all miss him very much.
Sincerely yours,
Ray
Ray G. Thomas
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Florida
Dear Lynn, Lauren and Dan,
We are both terribly sad to hear that Bill died. He was such a wonderful, talented, kind and considerate person. Singne, Liva, Michael and I all extend our heartfelt sympathy. I will always remember the many great times working together in the lab and skiing in the Sierra. All of us in the paleomagnetic field will feel his loss acutely. He contributed so much and had a broader knowledge of paleomagnetic labs all over the world than anyone, and I know that he had many ideas for innovative equipment, some of which are under development.
When your message came a few days ago I feared he might be near the end because I, too, would prefer to keep such news in the family. Surely his family brought him much happiness; I don't know anyone who combined family and work so successfully.
Love and sympathy from us all,
Rob
Robert Coe
Earth Sciences Department
University of California
Santa Cruz
Dear Lauren,
Please accept my heartfelt condolences to you and your immediate family, and also to Bill's extended family. I will miss him, and particularly his quiet reassurances when I made panic calls on the behaviour of my magnetometer.
These are obviously going to be hard times for you all, but perhaps it will help to know that our thoughts and best wishes are with you.
Sadly, David
David Stone (Professor Emeritus, Geophysics)
Ester, Alaska
Dear Lauren,
Me as well as all the staff of Helsinki and Prague laboratories would like
to send you, Lynn and to your family our deepest sympathies on your sad
loss.
Me and Tiiu had the chance to meet Bill personally not only as our
colleague, but also as our friend during our visit in California in 2004.
We will always remember him as a great gentelman with a sense for humor and
gift of great hospitality.
We realize the difficult times you are experiencing now and please accept
together with Lynn and all your family our spiritual support to overcome
this. We will remember him in the evening prayer.
With kindest regards,
Your sincerely,
Tomas and Tiiu
Helsinki, Finland
Subject: In memory of Bill Goree
Dear GP community,
With a deep sadness I forward the announcement of Bill Goree's death on July 22nd.
Bill made such efforts and had such success in inventing and developing his magnetometers for the benefit of all of us that as wordwide paleomagnetic community we should think about rewarding him by a
posthumous medal of the joined EGU and AGU medal as soon as 2008. If this joined medal formula is not possible, as "Mag and paleomag" vice-president of the MPRG section of the EGU, I will support his
nomination for the Petrus Peregrinus medal 2008.
Hoping to get your support in this initiative.
Nicolas Thouveny
Le Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement
France
Dear Lauren,
It is really a very sad news to hear that your father passed away so shortly after receiving the first message about his illness. Bill was really a great guy with an impressing personality and I remember still very well when you all together have been in Tuebingen. I can imagine how hard it is for you and the whole family to loose him at an age which is definitely to early to leave. We will certainly keep Bill in a good memory.
Sincerely,
Erwin
Prof. Dr. Erwin Appel
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Zentrum für Angewandte Geowissenschaften
Arbeitsbereich Geophysik
Universität Tuebingen
To the GOREE’s
IN MEMORY OF OUR FRIEND BILL,
I have just read the Lauren’s email annoucing the Bill departure !
We first met Bill in June 1993 during a visit at Moutain view’s 2G factory. Ulrike and I were
kindly invited by Bill and Lynn to spend few days in the Goree’s family with Charlie and
Lauren, at the Serene lake in the beautiful Moutain cabin. We had great times visiting lake
Tahoe and walking in the snow.
Ever since that day, every meeting with Bill and Lynn, along the last 15 years, either
in France or in California, at work or at rest, brought us great pleasures and peaceful times.
We wish you Lynn, Lauren, Charlie, Dan and the two Bill’s treasures a great courage
in such difficult times. We will often think about your husband, father and grandfather.
Nicolas, Ulrike
And their childrens Thomas and Amélie
La Ciotat, France
July 24th , 2007.
Dear Lauren
My condolences. This has come as quite a shock and is a great loss to all
of us,
Ben
Benjamin Weiss
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Dear Lauren,
First of all... sorry about the bad news....
Elisabet Beamud
Laboratori de Paleomagnetisme UB-CSICInstitut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC)
Barcelona
Spain
Subject: great sadness for Bill Goree's die
Dear Lauren Keaton,
We are very sad since we got the bad news of Bill Goree's death. He is a very kind of us. He installed the 2G system for us and trained us how to use it six years ago. We will miss him for ever.
Please give our great sadness to Bill Goree's family.
Zhiming Sun
Institute of Geomechanics
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Beijing, China
Dear Lauren:
We are very shocked with the sad news about Bill. Please, receive our sincere condolences which are extensive to all your family and close friends. We will always remember Bill not just as the great designer of the marvelous cryogenic magnetometers but also as a friendly, warm and very nice person. He had no customers but friends. All the paleomagnetic community around the world will certainly miss him a lot.
With the Best Regards
Augusto and all the staff at the Paleomagnetic Lab in Buenos Aires
Dr. Augusto E. Rapalini
INGEODAV
Depto. Cs. Geológicas
Fac. Cs. Exactas y Naturales
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dear Lauren!
We are very sad about this news. We are not only loosing a business partner. Much more
than that, we will miss a friend. We spent very good times together in Austria, and we will
always remember him as an integral part of our working group and laboratory life.
All our feelings are with You and Your family.
Sincerely,
Robert and all members of the Paleomagnetic Laboratory in Gams
Ao. Prof. Dr. Robert Scholger
Montanuniversität Leoben
Dear Lauren,
We all were very sorry to know about Bill Goree's death. Please accept our sincere condolences to you, your family, and all colleagues of your father.
Sincerely yours,
Paleomagnetic Group in Novosibirsk
(Alex Kazansky, Dmitry Metelkin, Galina Matasova,
Vasiliy Bragin, Nikolay Mikhaltsov and others)
Paleomagnetic Lab
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy
Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
P.S. Alex Kazansky is very far from Novosibirsk now and cannot reply himself.
Subject: Tribute from PGL-Beijing
Dear Lauren A Keaton,
I am sorroy for hearing about your father. This is a tribute form Paleomagnetism and Geochronology Laboratory, Beijing, please accepts our deepest sympathy and sincerest condolences to you and to all members of your family.
Yours sincerely,
Chunxia Zhang
Dear Lauren,
I have no words to say how sad I am after reading this message.
Please accept my condolences and pass them to the rest of Bill's family.
I can only add that it was an honor for me to have had the occasion to know him
directly and to enjoy his company during our meetings in the past years.
I think he was a great man !!
Leonardo
Leonardo Sagnotti
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Roma
ITALY
Dear Lauren,
We are saddened to hear of your father's death, and send you and your family our heartfelt condolences. Your father's work has revolutionized the area of paleomagnetism and this part of him will continue to live. Our thoughts are with you, Ann
PD Dr. Ann M. Hirt
Institute for Geophysics
Zurich
Switzerland
Aloha,
That was terrible news. I had so hoped that we would all be together at AGU again.
You might be interested to know that a group of us were nominating Bill for the Gilbert award in recognition of his enormous contribution to our field. Please give our love to your mother. I cannot imagine what it must be like to lose one's soul mate. I can sympathize with Bill's wish to keep the news in the family and would probably do the same myself in the circumstances.
Lots of love to you all in this terrible time,
Patricia and Mike
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Hawai`i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
Dear Lauren,
I am very sorry to hear the sad news, your father Bill Goree has passed away.
I extend to you, Lynn, Charlie and all of your family member my heartfelt sympathy.
Best regards,
Toshiki ISHIZAWA, Senior Staff
MARUBUN CORPORATION
Space Electronics Team
Aerospace Sales & Marketing Dept.
Tokyo, JAPAN
Subject: News regarding Bill Goree
Dear Lauren and Lynn,
It is really a very very sad news that Bill was passed away, and we really don't want to believe that. While I received your previous e-mail, I did pray that Bill will be recovered soon. As you know, he just installed our new system in Nanjing at the beginning of this year, like yesterday.
I do believe Bill has contributed his life on the development of cryogenic system with state of the art equipment. His unfortunate depart is a great loss to our community of paleomagnetism and geophysics.
Please accept my sincerely condolences on the death of Bill Goree.
Zhenyu
Zhenyu Yang
Editor for Episodes
http://www.episodes.org
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Nanjing University 210093, Nanjing, China
Dear Lauren,
please accept the condolences from all of us at the Yale paleomagnetic lab, built principally around your father's engineering and guidance. Bill has left a worldwide legacy that has greatly furthered our science and will continue to grow with future discoveries. We will miss him.
David
David A.D. Evans
Dep't of Geology & Geophysics
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Dear Lauren
I lost my father on July 8 so I am acutely aware of the pain that you and your family are feeling. Please accept my condolences. Bill was a fine person and I always appreciated his gentle manner and sly sense of humor. He will be sorely missed.
John
John W. King
Professor of Oceanography
Graduate School of Oceanography
University of Rhode Island
Narragansett, Rhode Island
Subject: A great man, a good friend, what a loss
Dear Lauren,
I got your message yesterday and came in this morning to write a note of support for Bill to pull through. I am very sad to hear that your father has passed away. Our contacts were sporadic, but I have always looked up to Bill as a tower of a man, physically, intellectually and above all so humanly. I wish you and Lynne and family and friends all strength in coming days, but am sure that you have found strength in the battle you fought with Bill these past few months.
I will inform my friends here in Canberra, no doubt they share the depth of my feelings.
Best wishes to you all.
Chris
Chris Klootwijk
Department of Earth and Marine Sciences
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
Subject: Your Dad
Dear Lauren and Lynn,
I am so very sorry to hear the news about Bill. I know what you're going through, and my heart goes out to you and your family at this very difficult time. If I can be helpful in any way, please do not hesitate to contact me. In the meantime, my prayers are with Bill and with you all.
Love,
Trudy
Applied Physics Systems
Mountain View, California
Dear Lauren,
Words seem so empty knowing the tremendous grief you are going through and sadness does not explain how Bill’s passing has made me feel. Those of us who had the distinct privilege of knowing Bill will forever have his enthusiasm, zest for life, and his catching smile embedded in our memories. He was such a kind gentleman that make me feel that US is a greater country and better place to live. My family and I will miss Bill within the rest of our lives—he lives in our hearts! Bill, we will never forget your smile. Rest easy and look over the rest of us.
I know it is hard for you and the rest family at this moment. I sincerely wish you take good care of yourselves. Please convey my best regards to your mother.
Xixi
Xixi Zhao
University of California
Santa Cruz
Hi, Lauren.
I am so very, very, very sorry. Your father was a remarkable human being; truly remarkable. All my very deepest and sincere and best thoughts to you, Dan, Lynn, and your other colleagues.
If there is anything that I can help with, please do not hesitate!
For now, peace to Bill, and to you and your family.
Much love, John
John W. Geissman
Professor and Incoming Chair
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
I just saw Gary this morning and he told me the bad news.
I wish I could have met your father while I was visiting.
I have only heard great things about him and the impact he had on science.
My deepest sympathies go to you, Dan and the entire 2G team.
Christian
Christian Ohneiser
Supervisor
Otago Paleomagnetic Research Facility
University of Otago, New Zealand
Dear Lauren:
I was just sitting down to write you a message of support for your father when your message announcing his death came in. I am shocked and deeply saddened by this news. Please accept my sympathies, as well as those of my colleagues here at the USGS. Your father's work has certainly made all of our careers much easier, and I enjoyed all of my personal interactions with him. I had the highest respect for his engineering skills.
We at the USGS will continue to look to you for support of our present system, and hopefully will be able to buy one of your new ones in the not to distant future.
Sincerely,
Jon Hagstrum
Jonathan T. Hagstrum
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Menlo Park, California
Lauren:
I'm so sorry to hear of your father's passing. I only got to know him a little when he installed the 2G at Lehigh, but he was so easy to work with and immediately likeable. My thoughts are with you and your family.
Ken Kodama
Lehigh University
Dear Lauren,
As a graduate student in Joe Kirschvink's lab at Caltech, I got to know your father over the last five years through AGU meetings, technical discussions of the phones, and occasional lab visits. He always struck me as a kind, generous, and welcoming person, and he was, of course, a critical contributor to the work of the Caltech lab.
I am very sorry to hear of his passage, though I am glad that it came peacefully. My best wishes to you and your family,
Bob Kopp
Geobiology graduate student
in the Kirschvink lab
at the California Institute of Technology.
Pasadena, California
Dear Lauren,
We are all greatly saddened and shocked by the news. Your father was highly respected by a great number of people, including myself. Please accept my condolences.
Very sincerely,
Stuart
Stuart Gilder
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Geophysics
Munich University
Munich, Germany
Dear Lauren,
It was a terrible shock for me to hear from you that your beloved father didn't recover. Myself, Simo Spassov and the personnel of the Geophysical Centre of the Royal Meteorological Institute in Dourbes (Belgium) want to express their sincere and deepest condolences for the sudden and unexpected passing away of Bill. We wish you, your family and colleagues much strength and courage in this very sad and difficult moment but I can ensure you that we will remember Bill, like he was when he was installing the new system in our lab in 2006, in our mind for ever.
Jozef Hus
Geophysical Centre of the Royal Meteorological Institute in
Dourbes, Belgium
Dear Lauren,
It is with deep sadness that I have learned Bill's death. Everybody liked him a great deal in Montpellier and we will all miss his efficiency and kindness.
Please accept all my deepest sympathy and give all my love to Lynn,
Mireille.
Mireille Perrin
Directeur de Recherche CNRS
Géosciences Montpellier
Université Montpellier
Montpellier, France
Dear Lauren,
I am greatly saddened by your message.
We have really appreciated your father for his great competence and his kindness
and we keep a very good memory of his stays in our lab.
Be sure that we are greatful to him for the great job he has made for
the paleomagnetic community.
Please accept all our deepest sympathy.
Our thoughts go with all his familly during this painful moment.
Courage,
Sincerely
Annick
Pr Annick Chauvin
Geosciences Rennes
Rennes, France
Dear Lauren,
It was sad to learn about your father's illness, rapid decline and death. Bill has left behind a great work of life; the 2G magnetometer system for sure revolutionized paleomagnetism with its sensitivity and reliability.
I think Bill will enter history as the man who designed an instrument that in a short time moved the boundaries of science to the limits we face today. His latest designed instrument also moved limits; significantly reducing maintanence and running-costs which all of us running laboratories know to
appreciate.
Bill was a pleasant person to communicate with, always 'there' to assist and help and give advice.
I would also like to the express my confidence that 2G will continue in his spirit, providing all of us in the 'family' with assistance when needed.
Sincerely
Reidar
Professor Reidar Løvlie
Department of Earth Science
Bergen, Norway