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Remembering George Saxtonby
Nate Horwitz Dr.
George Saxton, a longtime
member of the Honest Weight Community, died on Christmas day. He had
suffered
from Parkinson’s disease for several years. George was a very modest
man.
Although he was a physician, a teacher and a founding member of
Physicians for
Social Responsibility — for which he shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
— he
never talked about his enormous accomplishments at the Coop. He very
humbly
went about the task of stocking our shelves when he worked here. He
always
seemed to get an unusually great amount of enjoyment from whatever he
was
doing, whether it was stocking, pricing or figuring out how to load
labels in a
price gun. George was
unable to work in the Coop for the last few years because of his
illness, but
he frequently came here with his wife, Anne, to eat lunch and to shop.
He
always seemed glad to be here, even toward the end of his life, when it
was
clearly difficult for him to get around. |
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