Catherine Brooks

Catherine Brooks

by | Tributes

Remembering Dan Leahy: October 6, 1943 – December 10, 2022 Dan Leahy was my former professor, mentor, and friend. The truth is, if you were his friend, you were family to him. We met when I was a student in his freshman seminar in 1997. I was a shy girl hoping to make...

Betsy Taylor

by | Tributes

There are so many lessons I could list, including his insistence on lists. But I will focus on just one. Dan is committed to continuous learning and brings a rigorous spirit of inquiry to the world. It was telling that in his roster of recommended top 25 books, he...

Anna Zanella

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Dan taught me THIS. What you are doing with this shout-out email to gather learnings from him. Call it organizing? Spurring into action? Following up? All of the above, possibly. My guess is that If you are doing it, it’s because of a seed that Dan planted in...
Archives: Index

Archives: Index

by | Talks & Charts

As part of his practice to document and share organizing histories, Dan Leahy compiled, indexed, and established multiple archives based on the hundreds of well-maintained binders in his basement. He created detailed indexes and sent hundreds of pages to various...
Portions: Preface

Portions: Preface

by | About

Sometime in 2007, my GP at Group Health Cooperative told me I had high blood pressure. I concluded I would die soon from a stroke or something. One of the things I wanted to do before I died was tell my sons, JD and Chad, about my life before they were born. I knew...