Death of Robert Sears

["Dewey Dykstra, Jr." <dykstrad@BSUMAIL.IDBSU.EDU>]

I just received the following from my AAPT Section Representative.

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> It is with deep sorrow that I tell you that Dr. Robert Sears died
> Wednesday morning.
>
> Dr. Sears was the AAPT President Elect and would have become our President
> next year.  He was previously AAPT Treasurer and Chair of the Section
> Representatives.
>
> He suffered a massive heart attack while using exercise equipment.  He was
> 57 years old.

Many of you who have attended AAPT meetings in the past probably met Bob at
one time or another. I had the pleasure of knowing and working with Bob
while we were both AAPT Section Representatives.  The AAPT community and
the larger physics teaching community have lost one of their best.  It is
very sad to lose such a good person in his prime.

Dewey

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world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938.
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--E. Schrodinger in Mind and Matter, 1958.
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