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A longtime productive member of Caspar’s governing Board (despite the fact he lived in Fort Bragg and taught at Mendocino High) and a stalwart dishwasher at Fourth Sunday Breakfasts, we have to guess that Ed was a Casparado by choice. Born in the Bronx and educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, he relocated to California for his Masters at Stanford, started his family, and taught math at Mendocino High for nearly thirty years. His partner of 18 years, Zida Borcich, described him, “There was nobody in this world like Ed, who combined the most dissimilar attributes you can imagine into a single, most admirable and profound human being. He was beautiful. He was tall, dark, and handsome, smart, generous, wise, kind, practical, risky, brave, conscious, industrious when he wanted to be, stubborn, athletic, a walker, meticulous, a gym rat (before Covid), a numbers guy, and a great appreciator of nature. . . He was kind, thoughtful, and fully committed to doing good works. As a serious Vipassana meditator since the 1980s, he spent at least two hours a day looking inward. . . He gave everything he had to people in need: as a hospice worker for many years, as a teacher of Vipassana meditation to inmates at Alabama's maximum-security prison, Donaldson Correctional Facility, as a deliverer of Meals on Wheels to shut-ins on the coast. . . The guy was austere, but you absolutely knew what you were dealing with at all times: the truth, and, if you were lucky, a deep, abiding, non-gushy love that came from his core.”
At age eighty, he took a bad fall while skiing, breaking both legs; complications led to his death in 2021. |
