BOB KEGAN—Aureet's funeral - January 9, 1991
Harvard University
Anyone who spent time with Aureet back then (as I'm sure in the years since) could not fail to notice she was an unusual person, the kind of person who keeps a teacher teaching - a bright warm light, gifted and giving, intense, strong-willed, generous and ready to spend herself utterly for that which was dear to her. These are wonderful, precious, and dangerous qualities which characterized her living and her dying.
Even as a student, Aureet was a teacher. No one, I'm sure, ever accused her of being shy. Her ideas about interpersonal and relational development even then were original, provocative, and important. And they were growing toward something of great value. Her presentation to our Institute at Belmont just last year was a highlight of the series and much referred to by the Fellows of the Institute since. Those who shared the field of psychology with her had much, much more to learn from her. Those who would look to her capacities to help and heal had much, much more need of her. Her life has ended much too soon. But while she was with us, she gave everything she could - a wonderful, precious, dangerous, and finally inspiring quality which characterized the way she lived and the way she died.
