FROM THE MEMORIAL: by Sam Kamilos, 2/1/2008 Harvey was to Barbara and me a brother-in-law, our family physician and our dear friend. When we first met Harvey we already had two small children. Harvey would come to our house and toss the boys in the air while they giggled wildly. Children were one of his many passions. Even as recently as November he searched stores for a battery for a play car so that his grandson, Nathan, could use it on his birthday. As with most other goals in his life, he succeeded. Harvey met Alice while folk-dancing. They were a sparkling pair. Folk dancers par excellent, their picture wound up on the cover of a Sunday supplement of the Sacramento Bee. Somewhere around this time Harvey made the trip to the ranch near the Buttes, just as I had done a few years earlier, to ask our joint father-in-law, Irving, for the hand of one of his daughters. It was such a traditional act by an untraditional person. But he treated Irving to a wild ride through the forest surrounding Lake Tahoe in his VW beetle with the roll back top, inviting Irving to lay back and enjoy the trees whizzing by. Irving later said it felt like he was flying. When his own children arrived, family became even more important. Our extended family now found a tradition of gathering at every opportunity. All birthdays and holidays were to be celebrated in gathering together for a meal and hearty conversation. Harvey was always the engine that drove the discourse. As a physician, Harvey was the bane of the HMO administrator mentality. Corporate medicine wants a doctor to see four patients an hour. Harvey did not see things that way. A 3 PM appointment meant that you might see him at 4. But no need to grouse about the wait because the extra time he spent with the patient before you he would also spend with you. If you had lab work done it’s likely that you would get a phone call that evening from Harvey telling you the results. How responsive is that? How refreshing it would be if all of our services, government and private, operated that way. In sum, I can only say that Harvey was a dedicated, optimistic, energetic and brilliant person. He was a multi-tasker long before that term became part of our jargon. Doing two or three things at one time was his norm. If there is an after life, whatever company Harvey is in is being transformed. We ask that souls rest in peace. With Harvey, peace, perhaps, rest, not likely. Even in the great beyond my guess is that Harvey will be Harvey.