Deb Kaplan was a terrific person, activist and a professor in our deprtment. She died on Nov. 12th and we found out about her death at the NCA conference. Smoking was our way of lighting a candle for Deb.

Here is a thoughtful article about her in the Seattle PI.

also David has a nice post (scroll down to Nov. 15) on his blog with many great comments left by people who had been lucky to know Deb.