VAZQUEZ JOHN MANUEL "JACK" (March 7, 1932 - December 10, 2009.) Son of Manuel Vazquez and Helen Flannery Vazquez, was good times and fun to all he met. He attended Annunciation on Detroit's east side, graduating high school in 1950, while also taking art classes at Cass Tech. He studied architectural engineering at the University of Detroit, where he first met the woman who would later become his wife, Lois Cahill, and the priest who remained a lifelong friend, Arthur Lovely. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1955 and spent the next twelve years studying and teaching Latin in Milford, OH, West Baden, IN, Cleveland, OH, and Toronto. In 1968 he left the Jesuits to marry Lois, and in 1969 they had their only child, a son named Michael. He continued to teach, first Latin and then English, at Nolan Middle School near Seven Mile Road in Detroit, while advising various student groups and serving as librarian. He retired in the early 1990s. He was often to be found in a cafe—always wearing his dragonfly pin—writing in his journal, tutoring young people, and reading poetry aloud with friends. An ardent patron of the Grosse Pointe Public Library, he was a champion of librarians everywhere. He is survived by three sisters, Mary Gottlieb of Portland, Theodora Vazquez of San Francisco, and Carmen Forkin of Detroit, and by his son Michael, an editor and writer in New York. A funeral Mass will be held at St. Paul Catholic Church in Grosse Pointe Farms 12pm on Wed. December 16, 2009

adios, Mr. V. Good luck on the next leg of the trip, and many thanks for the emails over the years. You might not have realized it, but the stream of missives were a great comfort to me after my father died, in so much as they managed to be completely familiar and alien at the same time. No worries: promise keep an eye on Mike.