I knew John in Mr. Stienmetz’s painting, print making, & some after school art stuff; we were in several of the same art courses at UW, then he just vanished without a word. I never knew he might not be well, he never talked about it & I thought he, Steve Gray, Ellen Antoine & I were close via Mr. S & art courses & UW (Steve at Layton until they closed but we stayed in touch for a minute). John was a good man! I picked him up in the car with our final UW Sculpture pieces, to get to the Humanities Bldg to turn in. I spent too much on mine that took a lot of time to finish: John had a little piece of a mini-mountain of yellow tennis balls with a little man character trying to climb them. He ACED that final, not me…respect John????????