Saturday, February 17, 2018
Sorry to miss Dusty's service. We were all set to go out the door when Kazuya checked the roads and we had ice.
Besides being an all-round good person and excellent teacher and scholar, Dusty was one of the founders of the Asian Studies program at UC. Sometime back in the mid '70s Dusty, Barbara Ramusack, Han-kyo Kim and I drove to an Asian Studies conference at Ohio U. During the drive, the four of us did the initial planning for an Asian Studies program at UC. Dusty helped make it happen, and as someone who was really an American historian with an interest in Asia, made our plan more credible to our Western-focused colleagues. Both Kazuya and I saw him as a mentor.
