I just want to write something here so Rich can get his rose. I don't recall ever seeing him in high school but went to St. Anselm's with him but I don't think he went all 8 yrs. (According to Tom O'Doul, Rich and Art were cousins but not on Rich's Indian side. This explains the mutual brains.) Rich was a quiet, humble, self-effacing guy and maybe that's why we don't know much about him. Every quarter by far he was the smartest person in our class. Therefore, Sister always put him in the first seat in class so he could be door monitor. I think some of this attention may have even embarrassed him. He and Tom Mellon (I don't know if they were partners or not) always scored high in the annual science fair, too. Our 1960 yearbook says Rich was Senior Pres...National Merit Commendation with Art Quinn National Merit semi-finalist. Suzanne Helms Yanok
Rich Quinn died on September 2, 2001 at age 58 after a 20-year battle with cancer. Until the very end, however, Rich didn’t allow his disease to get in the way of a productive, happy life.
After earning his BS in chemistry from USF, Rich earned a PhD in biochemistry at Oregon State University and did post-doctoral work in Oak Ridge, TN. He then devoted his career at Burroughs Wellcome to immunology research, most notably in the area of AIDS research. Rich was a major contributor to the development of AZT, which is effective in the treatment of AIDS and herpes.
Rich rarely spoke about his academic or research successes. Instead, he’d tell anyone who would listen about his wonderful family.
Rich and his wife Joan (Marzell) were married for 37 years and raised a son, Tim and two daughters, Susan and Kate. Tim and his wife Anna have one daughter, Grace.
Wow. Gotta put Rich down as my closest friend in High School. I knew his wife Joan through my family connections and when -1966 - I was laid up in the Bishop Calif hospital in traction for some 4 months I taught myself to knit and sent them them a pair of booties. We stayed in touch on and off and in the summer of 2001, a wedding brought me within three hours of driving to visit him in Cary NC. An expected two hour visit turned into six and even though his throat cancer was affecting his voice I could get his still damned lively barbed wit. As we stood to say goodbye, his hug was rib crushing and long. Visiting Joan a year or two after his death, she would relate that his funeral drew some 800 attendees.
Some five years ago my wife Penny contracted shingles in the eye and she was prescribed Acyclovir, a antiviral med, and takes it daily. I would later find out from Rich's widow Joan (Marzell) that he was one of the developers of Acyclovir (which I think in an etymoligcal search means 'against the virus cycle'. And for my etymlogical thrust I give great thanks to Fr. Lacey who was stationed right next door at St. Sebastian's.) So we give thanks every morning for Rich's work.
Suzanne Helms (Yanok)
I just want to write something here so Rich can get his rose. I don't recall ever seeing him in high school but went to St. Anselm's with him but I don't think he went all 8 yrs.(According to Tom O'Doul, Rich and Art were cousins but not on Rich's Indian side. This explains the mutual brains.)
Rich was a quiet, humble, self-effacing guy and maybe that's why we don't know much about him. Every quarter by far he was the smartest person in our class. Therefore, Sister always put him in the first seat in class so he could be door monitor. I think some of this attention may have even embarrassed him. He and Tom Mellon (I don't know if they were partners or not) always scored high in the annual science fair, too.
Our 1960 yearbook says Rich was Senior Pres...National Merit Commendation with Art Quinn National Merit semi-finalist.
Suzanne Helms Yanok
Jim Campagna
Rich Quinn died on September 2, 2001 at age 58 after a 20-year battle with cancer. Until the very end, however, Rich didn’t allow his disease to get in the way of a productive, happy life.
After earning his BS in chemistry from USF, Rich earned a PhD in biochemistry at Oregon State University and did post-doctoral work in Oak Ridge, TN. He then devoted his career at Burroughs Wellcome to immunology research, most notably in the area of AIDS research. Rich was a major contributor to the development of AZT, which is effective in the treatment of AIDS and herpes.
Rich rarely spoke about his academic or research successes. Instead, he’d tell anyone who would listen about his wonderful family.
Rich and his wife Joan (Marzell) were married for 37 years and raised a son, Tim and two daughters, Susan and Kate. Tim and his wife Anna have one daughter, Grace.
Rich Quinn and Art Quinn were not related.
Jack Kriel
Wow. Gotta put Rich down as my closest friend in High School. I knew his wife Joan through my family connections and when -1966 - I was laid up in the Bishop Calif hospital in traction for some 4 months I taught myself to knit and sent them them a pair of booties. We stayed in touch on and off and in the summer of 2001, a wedding brought me within three hours of driving to visit him in Cary NC. An expected two hour visit turned into six and even though his throat cancer was affecting his voice I could get his still damned lively barbed wit. As we stood to say goodbye, his hug was rib crushing and long. Visiting Joan a year or two after his death, she would relate that his funeral drew some 800 attendees.
Some five years ago my wife Penny contracted shingles in the eye and she was prescribed Acyclovir, a antiviral med, and takes it daily. I would later find out from Rich's widow Joan (Marzell) that he was one of the developers of Acyclovir (which I think in an etymoligcal search means 'against the virus cycle'. And for my etymlogical thrust I give great thanks to Fr. Lacey who was stationed right next door at St. Sebastian's.) So we give thanks every morning for Rich's work.