Vale Jim Pawley

[Barbara Foster]

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Thanks, Stephen and Dan for this sad news.

Jim was one of the "good guys." While we didn't
always agree on everything, he was incredibly
kind and generous, thoughtful and thought-provoking.
A valued scientific colleague, he demanded a
precision which is all-to-often left to the
sidelines in today's hectic world .... and we are
all the better for that. I didn't know of his
love for music or his climate activism until
Stephen's mesage, but both make sense for this
special, energetic, multi-faceted man.

Here's hoping you find the best possible focal plane, Jim!

Fondly,
Barbara
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At 12:10 PM 3/12/2019, Dan Focht wrote:

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>Agreed, Jim will be sadly missed.
>His contributions will be forever recognized.
>He was also a great guy to work with at his Confocal Microscopy Courses.
>I loved his style of teaching and his presence
>both in the classroom and behind the scenes.
>
>Thanks Stephen for the biography, I did not know
>the interesting facts about him that you put in your post.
>
>Dan Focht
>
>
>
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>
>On Mar 12, 2019, at 3:30 AM, Stephen Cody <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s
>Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.
>
>“We are heartbroken to announce the sudden
>loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed
>playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
>
>Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s
>Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his
>parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where
>they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda
>on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He
>spent summers on Gambier Island with the family
>of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the
>family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From
>1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the
>Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh,
>and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at
>the University of California-Berkeley. After a
>series of postdoctoral positions (including in
>London, where he met his wife Christine), in
>1978 he took a faculty position in the
>department of Zoology at the University of
>Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main
>responsibilities was to run the three-story
>million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
>
>For sixteen years he also directed the 3D
>Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the
>University of British Columbia’s campus. With
>a faculty of internationally known scientists
>and cutting edge equipment loaned by
>manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells
>(motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s
>not just statistics: It’s biology!”)
>attracted participants from all over the
>world.  The course provided the foundation for
>his best-known publication, the Handbook of
>Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third
>edition and still an essential resource.
>
>Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim
>spent recent years raising the alarm. He
>organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught
>classes on climate change there and at the Elder
>College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate
>march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC,
>and gave lectures in many places including the
>Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was
>especially active in the Clean Air Society and
>the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association;
>his letters often appeared in local papers.
>
>Jim loved photography and music (especially
>Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture,
>and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim
>built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat
>access only). The family spent almost every
>summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by
>car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music
>Festival, which in its first year was his kids
>on violins and keyboard, and Don and George
>Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine
>retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house
>they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and
>was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years
>away. Every day, he looked out the window and
>said how lucky he felt to be here.
>
>Jim loved his family very much. He is survived
>by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three
>children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger
>Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren:
>Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane
>Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week
>in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories
>about Jim at the celebration of his life on July
>31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens
>(https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also
>hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison,
>time and location to be determined. People are
>also invited to send stories and photos to
>[hidden email] to be bound into a book
>for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations
>can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community
>Solar Association:
>https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His
>family will post updates on the memorial
>celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
>
>Stephen H. Cody
>
>Dan Focht
>Bioptechs Inc.
>3560 Beck Road
>Butler, PA 16002-9259
>Office: 724-282-7145
>Toll Free: 877-LIVE-CELL (548-3235)
>[hidden email]
>www.bioptechs.com

[John Oreopoulos]

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This community owes much to Jim Pawley. With any deep question I've ever had about confocal microscopy, with enough searching, I can usually find the answer in his book. It was great to meet him in person back in 2007 at the UBC Live Cell Microscopy course. My sincere condolences to his family.

John Oreopoulos


On 2019-03-16, at 2:11 PM, Barbara Foster wrote:

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> *****
>
> Thanks, Stephen and Dan for this sad news.
>
> Jim was one of the "good guys." While we didn't always agree on everything, he was incredibly kind and generous, thoughtful and thought-provoking.
> A valued scientific colleague, he demanded a precision which is all-to-often left to the sidelines in today's hectic world .... and we are all the better for that. I didn't know of his love for music or his climate activism until Stephen's mesage, but both make sense for this special, energetic, multi-faceted man.
>
> Here's hoping you find the best possible focal plane, Jim!
>
> Fondly,
> Barbara
> [phone]
>
> Microscopy/Microscopy Education
> "Education, not just Training"
>
> At 12:10 PM 3/12/2019, Dan Focht wrote:
>> *****
>> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
>> http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy
>> Post images on http://www.imgur.com and include the link in your posting.
>> *****
>>
>> Agreed, Jim will be sadly missed.
>> His contributions will be forever recognized.
>> He was also a great guy to work with at his Confocal Microscopy Courses.
>> I loved his style of teaching and his presence both in the classroom and behind the scenes.
>>
>> Thanks Stephen for the biography, I did not know the interesting facts about him that you put in your post.
>>
>> Dan Focht
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2019, at 3:30 AM, Stephen Cody <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> *****
>> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
>> http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy
>> Post images on http://www.imgur.com and include the link in your posting.
>> *****
>>
>> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.
>>
>> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
>>
>> Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
>>
>> For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
>>
>> Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
>>
>> Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
>>
>> Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
>>
>> Stephen H. Cody
>>
>> Dan Focht
>> Bioptechs Inc.
>> 3560 Beck Road
>> Butler, PA 16002-9259
>> Office: 724-282-7145
>> Toll Free: 877-LIVE-CELL (548-3235)
>> [hidden email]
>> www.bioptechs.com