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Memories of Suzanne Whitehead

Suzanne (she hated to be called Suzi) and I spent many hours together our senior year and beyond. Few people really understood Suzanne, and I'm not sure I did completely. I know we felt very comfortable with each other, and we spent much of our time together just talking. Suzanne took pride in being an individual, she was never one to go along with the crowd. She was very unique -- I've never met anyone else like her. She was very artistic and creative, and strove to think and act "outside the lines". Had she lived, I'm positive she would have contributed something artistically profound to the world.
     I considered Suzanne to be a very spiritual person. She and I had many conversations about "New Age" thought, although it wasn't called that then. We believed, wrongly I feel now, that through chemicals, we could raise our spiritual consciousness and become more self-aware. I'm happy to have lived through that phase of my life to report this fallacy. Suzanne did not, and her death still saddens me. I pray that I can talk to her again on "the other side" when my time comes. In the meantime, she continues to inspire my creative energy, desire to laugh at life, and an understanding that, although we are social beings, my individual relationship with God is paramount to all else.

(Mark Reed, September 1999)



Suzanne and I were not close friends but we were lab partners in Science class our freshman year. I knew she was funny and could make people laugh by changing her facial expressions and voice. One day I found out she could be hilarious on paper too, drawing cartoons.

Our teacher, Mr. Lewis, showed a film strip titled "How a Hamburger Turns Into You" and it set us both off! It became fodder for her imagination, immediately twisted into "How Mr. Lewis Turned Into a Hamburger". We traded drawings and laughs all the way through class that day. It sounds goofy now but back then it was enough to SEND a couple of bored freshmen!

I will always remember Suzanne's humor and her fantastic smile. She could find something to laugh about in any normal circumstance. She had a wonderful imagination!

(Anne Waymack Hess, March 2000)

I can remember Suzanne all the way back to second grade at Logan Elementary School. She was fun-loving and entertaining. When I learned of her passing, the first thought I had was her antics in class. My favorite was when she would flip her long dark hair forward over her face and pretend she was Cousin It (from the Addam's Family, popular at the time). She only did this when Mrs. Wanamaker was facing the blackboard. Always good for a laugh.

God be with you, Suzanne.

(Dave Johnson, October 2000)

In Memory of:

Suzanne
Whitehead