RIP Derrill Bodley

We've just learned that one of our music professors from UOP, Derrill Bodley, was killed in a motorcycle crash a few days ago, just as we were celebrating the arrival of our daughter.

Story, via the Sacramento Bee: http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/13611544p-14453447c.html

Dr. Bodley's story was both monstrously saddening and hugely empowering. He rose like a phoenix after his daughter's death on 9/11/2001.

He will be missed.

info copied from UOP's website:

Memorial Service for Derrill Bodley

The University community is invited to attend a memorial service for longtime professor and alumnus Derrill G. Bodley. Dr. Bodley, who passed away last week in a motorcycle accident, taught in Pacific's Conservatory of Music from 1986 to 2000. The service will be held on Friday, September 30 at 1:30 pm in Morris Chapel.

Memorial Contributions can be made in his name to the Flight 93 Memorial Project (http://www.honorflight93.org/), September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows (http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/), J.Russell Bodley Scholarship (http://www.pacific.edu/giving), or the Deora Bodley Scholarship Fund, Los Rios Foundation, Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95822.