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Bradley
P. Dean
February 4, 1954 – January 14, 2006
Independent Thoreau Scholar
Thoreau Society Bulletin Editor
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www.bradleypdean.com
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Dear
Friends,
Bradley P. Dean died suddenly Saturday night, January 14th,
of a heart attack. I know that you all share in our grief at
this devastating loss.
Emerson
says it best:
The scale on which his studies proceeded was so large as to
require longevity, and we were the less prepared for his sudden
disappearance. The country knows not yet, or in the least part,
how great a son it has lost. It seems an injury that he should
leave in the midst his broken task which none else can finish,
a kind of indignity to so noble a soul that he should depart
out of Nature before yet he has been really shown to his peers
for what he is.
Bradley
P. Dean, Ph.D., 51, of Bloomington, Indiana, died on Saturday
at his residence. Born February 4, 1954 at the Clark Air Force
Base in the Philippines, he was the son of Frederick Paul Dean
and Ida Mae (Arrand) Dean.
A well-respected independent scholar, Brad had
recently begun teaching at Indiana University. He was also an
award-winning author, and editor. He was a life-time member
of the Thoreau Society and served as editor of the “Thoreau
Society Bulletin.” He published three books as well as
numerous scholarly articles on Henry David Thoreau.
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Brad’s three books were “Faith in a Seed” and “Wild
Fruits,” both edited from Thoreau’s manuscripts, and “Letters
to a Spiritual Seeker,” a collection of Thoreau’s letters
to H.G.O. Blake. Brad was working on Thoreau’s unpublished “Indian
Notebooks” at the time of his death.
Survivors include his wife Debra Kang Dean of Bloomington,
one son David P.K. Dean and his wife Jessica of Redwood City, CA,
his mother, Ida Mae Dean of Kailua-Kona, HI, his father Frederick
P. Dean and his wife E. Kay of Florence, CO, four sisters, Cynthia
Miller of Raleigh NC, Diana Dean of Loveland, CO, Lori Dean of Denver,
CO, Wendy Dean of Spokane, WA, and two brothers, Gregory Dean and
Herb Dean both of Kailua-Kona, HI.
Services will be 3:00pm Wednesday January 18, 2006
at Allen Funeral Home, Bloomington, Indiana. Visitation will be from
1:00 pm until service time on Wednesday.
“If the day and night be such that you greet
them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented
herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success.”
— Henry D. Thoreau
The family
of Bradley P. Dean requests that any contributions in lieu of flowers
be sent to the Thoreau Society to support the ongoing publication
of the Thoreau Society Bulletin:
55 Old
Bedford Road
Concord, MA 01742
978-369-5310
Brad followed Walter Harding as the editor of the
Bulletin.
He considered it an honor to be able to carry on that tradition, and
he often spoke of the Bulletin's importance serving as the heart and
soul of the Society.
Debra K. Dean
P.O. Box 1392
Bloomington,
IN 47402-1392 U.S.A.
debra@debrakangdean.com
