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BAUR, WILLIAM HAROLD passed
away
quietly on May 5, 2014. He lived quietly as
well, unless you happened
to mention global warming and climate change. He would then patiently
explain to you that abundant evidence exists of even warmer global
temperatures in recent geological history without the corresponding
carbon imprint left by man.
He spent a lifetime reading and learning, always to the backdrop of classical music and opera. Most of all, he was a truly free thinker, with his own carefully reasoned opinions no matter what everyone else chose to think. He loved frappuccinos; he scorned community associations. He was never wrong, or at least not so that he would admit. He ate ice cream every day. He was a true renaissance man in the modern world he could read dozens of books about computers without the need to ever turn one on. Educated as a physicist, he spent his free time building and sailing multihulls. In fact, he could build most anything. His humor, on the other hand, could be a bit obscure. He was a great artist and sculptor, creating works of exquisite beauty that few have been lucky to see.
He was an inspiration, precisely because he never tried to inspire anyone. William Baur was born in 1932 in Michigan. He is survived by....
William Baur
bituaryBAUR, WILLIAM HAROLD passed
away
quietly on May 5, 2014. He lived quietly as
well, unless you happened
to mention global warming and climate change. He would then patiently
explain to you that abundant evidence exists of even warmer global
temperatures in recent geological history without the corresponding
carbon imprint left by man. He spent a lifetime reading and learning, always to the backdrop of classical music and opera. Most of all, he was a truly free thinker, with his own carefully reasoned opinions no matter what everyone else chose to think. He loved frappuccinos; he scorned community associations. He was never wrong, or at least not so that he would admit. He ate ice cream every day. He was a true renaissance man in the modern world he could read dozens of books about computers without the need to ever turn one on. Educated as a physicist, he spent his free time building and sailing multihulls. In fact, he could build most anything. His humor, on the other hand, could be a bit obscure. He was a great artist and sculptor, creating works of exquisite beauty that few have been lucky to see.
He was an inspiration, precisely because he never tried to inspire anyone. William Baur was born in 1932 in Michigan. He is survived by....
Published
in The Capital on May 9, 2014
