For Family, Friends, and Associates to Share Our Memories
We invite you to use this blog space to share your stories, memories, photos, poems, and other pieces that allow us to remember our dear Pam Kleiber. I thought it would be good to begin on Valentines Day, because of our love for her.
Pam and I were in many ways kindred spirits. Although we were together perhaps a dozen times, we talked often and exchanged a lot of correspondence. We worked in the same field – social science research – and often talked about our work, its implications, and research methods, how to learn as much as we could using one-on-one interviews, focus groups and survey research.
Pam had a commitment to three things: education, involving the citizenry in public life, and fostering democratic values. She was the first person I know who was concerned about violence against women on campus. Pam was unfailingly warm, generous, profoundly intelligent and fun-loving. Perhaps my fondest memory is the night she and her “sister”, Margaret Holt, invited me to Athens for an NIF forum. Afterwards, Pam took me to a little bar downtown where she wanted me to have a scotch. When I said I wasn’t much of a scotch drinker, she insisted, saying that for one night I had to be, that drinking scotch was obligatory after a forum. What could I do? I had one? Or was it two or three? What I remember most is laughing and talking late into the night.
The world is a far better place because of Pam Kleiber. The effects from her life will ripple across the years throughout Georgia and our country.
When I think back on my undergraduate years, Dr. Kleiber helped steer some of the most formative experiences and opportunities of my early 20s. To this day I am grateful for the influence she had on my studies, and how, thanks to my research through the CURO program, I was able to apply to study abroad in China. I was so sorry to hear that she left us too soon. Undoubtedly Dr. Kleiber's influence will continue to reverberate positively throughout generations to come.
Pam and I were in many ways kindred spirits. Although we were together perhaps a dozen times, we talked often and exchanged a lot of correspondence. We worked in the same field – social science research – and often talked about our work, its implications, and research methods, how to learn as much as we could using one-on-one interviews, focus groups and survey research.
ReplyDeletePam had a commitment to three things: education, involving the citizenry in public life, and fostering democratic values. She was the first person I know who was concerned about violence against women on campus. Pam was unfailingly warm, generous, profoundly intelligent and fun-loving. Perhaps my fondest memory is the night she and her “sister”, Margaret Holt, invited me to Athens for an NIF forum. Afterwards, Pam took me to a little bar downtown where she wanted me to have a scotch. When I said I wasn’t much of a scotch drinker, she insisted, saying that for one night I had to be, that drinking scotch was obligatory after a forum. What could I do? I had one? Or was it two or three? What I remember most is laughing and talking late into the night.
The world is a far better place because of Pam Kleiber. The effects from her life will ripple across the years throughout Georgia and our country.
John Doble
When I think back on my undergraduate years, Dr. Kleiber helped steer some of the most formative experiences and opportunities of my early 20s. To this day I am grateful for the influence she had on my studies, and how, thanks to my research through the CURO program, I was able to apply to study abroad in China. I was so sorry to hear that she left us too soon. Undoubtedly Dr. Kleiber's influence will continue to reverberate positively throughout generations to come.
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