PROF. PAUL NASH—1991
Boston University
Although hundreds of students passed through my classes in those days, Aureet came to my attention, initially, because of her high intelligence and dedicated commitment. She addressed her work with sustained seriousness but yet without a heavy sense of duty. Rather, she brought a playful sense of creativity to her studies.
As I came to know her better, it was delightful to discover beneath the intellectual vigor and rigor a young woman with a remarkable sense of loyalty to friends and family; a tremendous capacity for love of people, animals, and nature; a delightful simplicity of personal style that undergirded and strengthened her intellectual power and creative capacities; and a breadth of outlook that took her courageously and productively into the world of art.
Into a short life she compressed a depth and range of achievements of which many of us would be proud to look back upon after a long inning. She touched many lives besides mine. I know that many of those lives were, as mine, enriched, deepened, and made more delightful by the fragrance of her presence.
