Joseph John Pas died September 1, 2000, age 53. I do not know the cause of death. Joe cut his own swath in life. He was very much an individual, somewhat unpredictable and often exciting to be with. He was a member of Beloit's 1967 East European Seminar in Vienna. Despite spending a lot of time speaking with him, I realize now that I never knew his major at Beloit. Joe was creative and served as an editor of our class yearbook. Joe visited Sheralyn and I in the early 1970's at our little bungalow on Minnehaha Creek in south Minneapolis. He arrived at our door with a case (four gallon jugs) of Gallo Hearty Mountain Burgundy (a wine with which I was before then completely unfamiliar). After Beloit, Joe graduated from the University of Houston Law School and his life seemed to take a conspicuous upturn. Joe had a taste for the flamboyant. I visited him once in the 1970's in Houston on my way to a meeting in Galveston. Joe was a most gracious host. He had a solo law office in the penthouse of an office tower at The Galleria in Houston. At the time, Joe was a bachelor with a large modern house and two identical new Cadillac Broughams in his garage (he liked the design so much he ordered two identical cars from the factory). We went running at what seemed to me to be a rather tony health club and sailing on his boat followed by dinner at the Houston Yacht Club. I lost touch with Joe after that and heard only a few incomplete fragments of news about his life (id est, that Joe raised money for charity dressed as a giant chicken, and that he married sometime before his death and had a stepson).
Michael Zlonis
Joseph John Pas died September 1, 2000, age 53. I do not know the cause of death. Joe cut his own swath in life. He was very much an individual, somewhat unpredictable and often exciting to be with. He was a member of Beloit's 1967 East European Seminar in Vienna. Despite spending a lot of time speaking with him, I realize now that I never knew his major at Beloit. Joe was creative and served as an editor of our class yearbook. Joe visited Sheralyn and I in the early 1970's at our little bungalow on Minnehaha Creek in south Minneapolis. He arrived at our door with a case (four gallon jugs) of Gallo Hearty Mountain Burgundy (a wine with which I was before then completely unfamiliar). After Beloit, Joe graduated from the University of Houston Law School and his life seemed to take a conspicuous upturn. Joe had a taste for the flamboyant. I visited him once in the 1970's in Houston on my way to a meeting in Galveston. Joe was a most gracious host. He had a solo law office in the penthouse of an office tower at The Galleria in Houston. At the time, Joe was a bachelor with a large modern house and two identical new Cadillac Broughams in his garage (he liked the design so much he ordered two identical cars from the factory). We went running at what seemed to me to be a rather tony health club and sailing on his boat followed by dinner at the Houston Yacht Club. I lost touch with Joe after that and heard only a few incomplete fragments of news about his life (id est, that Joe raised money for charity dressed as a giant chicken, and that he married sometime before his death and had a stepson).