Comments on: Nancy Brook Lafrenz (Jacobs) http://www.joshzam.com/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/ Don’t trust spellcheck Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Josh http://www.joshzam.com/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/comment-page-1/#comment-4406 Josh Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:08:22 +0000 http://www.joshzam.com/wordpress/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/#comment-4406 Hello Mike, Thank you so much for Nancy :) I am sorry you and I did not get a chance to meet, as well. Nancy was a very important part of my life and I love her very much. She always reminded me of my Aunt Amy. Amy is my mother's sister but, unlike any other member of her family, Amy dedicated her life to the arts. She was a creative, ballsy, intelligent woman in a not-too-tall package. She was an inspiration for me and, thanks to her, I became interested in theater, joined the theater department at Binghamton, and met Nancy. I only have good memories of Nancy and our time together. Thank you for your kind note and happy birthday, Nancy. Warm regards, Joshua Hello Mike,

Thank you so much for Nancy :)

I am sorry you and I did not get a chance to meet, as well. Nancy was a very important part of my life and I love her very much. She always reminded me of my Aunt Amy. Amy is my mother’s sister but, unlike any other member of her family, Amy dedicated her life to the arts. She was a creative, ballsy, intelligent woman in a not-too-tall package. She was an inspiration for me and, thanks to her, I became interested in theater, joined the theater department at Binghamton, and met Nancy. I only have good memories of Nancy and our time together.

Thank you for your kind note and happy birthday, Nancy.

Warm regards,
Joshua

]]> By: Michael Jacobs http://www.joshzam.com/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/comment-page-1/#comment-4324 Michael Jacobs Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:56:13 +0000 http://www.joshzam.com/wordpress/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/#comment-4324 Joshua: Thank you so much for your thoughtful tribute to Nancy. Leslee and I cannot tell you how much learning about her from her friends means to us. I know I have met some of you but there are many people out there who knew Nancy. I am sorry we did not get a chance to meet you. Our best regards. Fondly Mike Joshua:
Thank you so much for your thoughtful tribute to Nancy.
Leslee and I cannot tell you how much learning about her from her friends means to us. I know I have met some of you but there are many people out there who knew Nancy.

I am sorry we did not get a chance to meet you.
Our best regards.
Fondly
Mike

]]> By: Joanie http://www.joshzam.com/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Joanie Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:35:31 +0000 http://www.joshzam.com/wordpress/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/#comment-223 Nancy was a great friend to me, from our teen years on our high schools' respective speech and debate teams, to our years together at Binghamton, and most especially the summer after my graduation in 1996. Nancy was always supportive, kind, honest... she listened to me when I spoke. She introduced me to the great friends I lived with my senior year of college. She took me to my first Ani Difranco concert. We had lost touch in the years after that, so I heard from a friend of a friend of her passing. I was so happy to be able to make it to her beautiful memorial celebration in January to celebrate her life with all the people she touched. I've been thinking about Nancy a lot lately. About to complete my dissertation and move on to the next phase in my life, today I stared at the blank dedication page and finally wrote: To Nancy Brook Jacobs Lafrenz, 1974-2005, For reminding me what matters. Thank you, Josh, for your beautiful words. Joanie Mazelis Nancy was a great friend to me, from our teen years on our high schools’ respective speech and debate teams, to our years together at Binghamton, and most especially the summer after my graduation in 1996. Nancy was always supportive, kind, honest… she listened to me when I spoke. She introduced me to the great friends I lived with my senior year of college. She took me to my first Ani Difranco concert.

We had lost touch in the years after that, so I heard from a friend of a friend of her passing. I was so happy to be able to make it to her beautiful memorial celebration in January to celebrate her life with all the people she touched.

I’ve been thinking about Nancy a lot lately. About to complete my dissertation and move on to the next phase in my life, today I stared at the blank dedication page and finally wrote: To Nancy Brook Jacobs Lafrenz, 1974-2005, For reminding me what matters.

Thank you, Josh, for your beautiful words.

Joanie Mazelis

]]> By: Roger and Annie Kirk http://www.joshzam.com/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/comment-page-1/#comment-222 Roger and Annie Kirk Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:31:40 +0000 http://www.joshzam.com/wordpress/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/#comment-222 via your website, could I pass on our own love and hugs to Nancy's mum and family - Marcy, I agree that the words Joshua writes are warm and loving and intelligent. Helen was the other lovely person lost to us on Boxing Day: her birthday (25th) should have been on the day that Marcy posted her thanks. Helen too had a smile that stretched her face, and the warmth within the smile that we can see in the photos of the lovely girl that is/was Nancy. Butterflies keep appearing totally unseasonably here in connection to Helen. She is still there for us, her energy transformed in a million different ways. Nancy will be the same ...such energy, warmth and love from these two young women does not just vanish. We are doing our best to focus some of her energy into a charity based here in England founded in Helen's name: The Helen Foundation, to encourage and reward young people's talents and endeavours in the arts. Our first 6 free workshops in different schools and colleges are on Saturday 25th March. Wish us - and Helen - luck and love with this. Those in the USA who maybe knew Helen and wish to help financially, there is a US bank a/c set up ... and a website:www.thehelenfoundation.org.uk which is under construction. Joshua, fare forward with positivity and hope: Nancy and Helen would have both wanted that for you. via your website, could I pass on our own love and hugs to Nancy’s mum and family – Marcy, I agree that the words Joshua writes are warm and loving and intelligent. Helen was the other lovely person lost to us on Boxing Day: her birthday (25th) should have been on the day that Marcy posted her thanks. Helen too had a smile that stretched her face, and the warmth within the smile that we can see in the photos of the lovely girl that is/was Nancy. Butterflies keep appearing totally unseasonably here in connection to Helen. She is still there for us, her energy transformed in a million different ways. Nancy will be the same …such energy, warmth and love from these two young women does not just vanish. We are doing our best to focus some of her energy into a charity based here in England founded in Helen’s name: The Helen Foundation, to encourage and reward young people’s talents and endeavours in the arts. Our first 6 free workshops in different schools and colleges are on Saturday 25th March. Wish us – and Helen – luck and love with this. Those in the USA who maybe knew Helen and wish to help financially, there is a US bank a/c set up … and a website:www.thehelenfoundation.org.uk which is under construction. Joshua, fare forward with positivity and hope: Nancy and Helen would have both wanted that for you.

]]> By: Marcy Brenner Kolchinsky http://www.joshzam.com/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Marcy Brenner Kolchinsky Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:18:23 +0000 http://www.joshzam.com/wordpress/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/#comment-221 Thank you so much for such a beautiful, true, kind tribute to such a remarkable young woman. Nancy's mom and I are cousins, our mothers were sisters. I would have loved to have Nancy as a sister, daughter, granddaughter. You said it all. Thanks, you must be quite a wonderful guy. mbk Thank you so much for such a beautiful, true, kind tribute to such a remarkable young woman. Nancy’s mom and I are cousins, our mothers were sisters. I would have loved to have Nancy as a sister, daughter, granddaughter. You said it all. Thanks, you must be quite a wonderful guy. mbk

]]> By: Meg http://www.joshzam.com/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Meg Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:01:13 +0000 http://www.joshzam.com/wordpress/2006/02/nancy-brook-lafrenz-jacobs/#comment-220 Just as Nancy touched many lives, your words touch many in her memory. Thank you for such a wonderful tribute. Just as Nancy touched many lives, your words touch many in her memory. Thank you for such a wonderful tribute.

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