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Rick Granick posted a condolence
Thursday, November 18, 2010
I was shocked and saddened to read of David's passing in the Ohio ACLU newsletter. We shared many good times and challenges during the years at U.C.
I will always remember David as brilliant, creative, compassionate, and committed. Always an individual, never a clone, he fought tirelessly to spread the word of justice and human rights, through his teaching, his writing, and his work as a citizen.
David was "one of the good guys". I will miss him.
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Karen Loeb posted a condolence
Saturday, October 2, 2010
My husband, David Dial and I are saddened to learn just recently of David's passing. We both went to grad school with him at BGSU and enjoyed his wit and compassion. Our condolences to the family.
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Romola Wright posted a condolence
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
It was a great shock to hear of David Shevin's sudden death. He had so much life and learning in him! While I knew him in my twenties in Cinncinnati, we connected again some decades later on Vancouver Island and the Yukon, Canada. David took all that was thrown at him in stride, ever curious to find out more, ever the good friend with a kind word and a gift of poetry and knowledge. David spoke with love and concern for his family, his community, and was ever ready to fight for basic human rights. His interests and knowledge spanned many fields and included his love of Africa, his pride in the labour movement, his need for social justice, and his ability to use language from any field, including science. He will be missed!
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Dinesh Hassan posted a condolence
Sunday, August 22, 2010
I knew David for a long time, about 37 years to be inexact, first as a classmate in the graduate program in English at the University of Cincinnati and later as a colleague at Central State University. Like many I was in awe of David's learning, his Erasmian ability to put things in perspective, to answer almost any question, and of that genuine, idiosyncratic sense of humor and good humor. It seemed puns were chasing him even as he was having fun with them.
I often addressed him as Rabbi or Levy because of his elegant store of knowledge and wisdom and he responded by calling me Imam, although my last name has nothing to do with any religion. Hard to accept the stark truth that he is gone. I wish he were still with us, even if he was constantly telling us esoterically bad jokes. If I said his jokes were bad, he would say his bad jokes were better than other people's good jokes.
In memoriam David Shevin, friend, philosopher, and guide.
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Arlene Hoffer Colbert posted a condolence
Sunday, August 15, 2010
I am very sorry about David's passing. He was an old school chum from Monroe HS. I remember his amazing wit, and gentleness. We will miss him.
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Carolyn Nilsen Shepherd posted a condolence
Saturday, August 14, 2010
I met David through his brother Mayer 40 or so years ago. I still keep his poetry nearby. He tried to be "way out" but his soul was sweet. My great sympathies to his family.
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Stephen Lewandowski posted a condolence
Friday, July 30, 2010
I mourn the passing of a friend of my youth. David remains 25 to me.
My condolences to his family.
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June King posted a condolence
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
David and I were closer than I can express during my years in Sandusky... his in Tiffin, Ohio. We kept in touch and never lost the tenderness we found in one another during those tumultouous years, '90's. I wear a Star of David for him now, and my heart grieves with you ALL, and will... till time makes it more manageable for us... and we truly celebrate this irreplaceable human being by joining him on the front lines of any fight for justice.... He was Red Davey and Superdude all in one. I will miss him for the rest of my life.... God bless all of you in the Shevin family... how he loved to regale us all with great loving stoies. God bless.
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Selma Kaplan posted a condolence
Thursday, July 22, 2010
I've known David most of my life, though I've not seen him in years. I'll remember us all -- David and and Joe Schwartz (how can they both be gone???) and all the rest -- as we were then. Young and crazy and ready to take on the world. My thoughts go out to the Shevin family and all whose lives were touched by David's light.
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Jon Weisberger posted a condolence
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Chopper Dave, we were friends for such a long time - Rochester, Deep Springs, Mt. Angel, Portland, Cincinnati, Tiffin, Fairborn - but I thought it would be even longer. Ever since I got the news of your passing, my mind's been filled with memories of jokes, of music, of foolishness, of intensity, of poems and politics and girlfriends and cats and and and. I was hoping so much to get you down to Nashville for a visit - you would have been so tickled to see Porter Wagoner's outfits in the Country Music Hall of Fame. In the last message I got from you you said you wanted to hear Jim McCall and Vernon McIntyre's version of "Banana Boat," and I knew you were the only other person in the whole world who would appreciate it with me. Dear friend, goodbye.
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Hannah B. Aroesty, Newton Centre Mass. posted a condolence
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
I was so sorry to learn of the untimely death of David. I have so many fond memories of playing with David, going back to Shepard Street.
My favorite memory of David is from our high school days. I was about 14 or 15 years old. Late one Friday night, I heard stones tapping at my window. I open the shade, and find David Shevin, with David Karp throwing stones. I think about this story a lot. It still makes me laugh 44 years later.
There is a saying from Pirkei Avoth, “A person who is loved by man, is love by G-d.” David was LOVED by man, and he will be missed. He was a very sweet, kind person.
May Ella, Meyar, Jonathan and the whole family be comforted, and may his name be for a blessing.
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nancy hoffer posted a condolence
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
I knew david from ther neighborhood. He went to Monroe High and I to Saint Agnes. I did'nt spend all that much time with him but from my high school days i always remember him. All we did was hang out around the neighborhood and goofed around. I remember thinking he was smart. We had fun. What a special guy.
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Daniel S. Sapon posted a condolence
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Filled with sadness and feeling loss, I learned of the sudden death of my friend David A. Shevin. We spent together time of immense quality, particularly in that decade when our ages grew from 20 to 30 years. I admired David’s ability to taste poetry on the tongue before delivering it aloud, displaying a reticence to let it burst into the air until precious freeze-dried thoughts had been fully reconstituted and revivified, their authenticity reaffirmed. Intent upon extracting from even the smallest morsel of poetry every particle of flavor, he savored the nuances of the fleeting moment-to-moment ironies, pains, and abundant delights of life, and modeled his method for fellow poets. Among the first to admire my poetry, it was his judgment that assured publication of my poem entitled Traveler’s Talk. A line of that poem reverberates today: "He looked up and waited. / Who else would have known there was more?" David knew there WAS more than had been said, and more than COULD be said. With taste, discernment, exquisite sensitivity and deep insights, his unique vision inspired his rare success in capturing fleeting moments, transforming them into meticulously crafted and enduring language. A magnificent human being has passed, leaving better the path he tread. I shall treasure his memory. May he come to his place in peace.
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Nancy O'Donnell posted a condolence
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
I am so saddened to hear of David's sudden death. I went to a mini reunion of Monroe High School last night, and we talking about David. How is this possible? We became better friends after high school, visiting in Washington, D.C. and Rochester. How can Red Davie be gone, filled with light and poetry and wild passion against injustice and intolerance. In his poem, "Green Day," he writes: Today is ten years since I outlived the lifespan of Dylan Thomas. Talk about lushness. I have reached the age of Joseph McCarthy, at the end of his years and his liver. Out back, despite the damp, four crows pick at stalks of grass browning over, Flesh turns to blossoms before the soul becomes gravel. I don't know how I know this, but it's true."
He will be remembered with affection and appreciation for his generosity and humor and his wonderful moving, wry poetry.
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Daniel Cottom posted a condolence
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
David was my best friend when I was a student at Deep Springs College in 1970-71, and we kept in touch for some years after that, visiting each other in Oregon, Ohio, and New York City. He was kind to me--generous--inspiring--and always, of course, very, very funny. I ended up becoming a professor, as he did; his influence on my life, my imagination, my sense of the world, was immense. I remember very well with what affection and pleasure he spoke of his siblings and of the rest of his family. I'm sure his family members and those who know him best will be able to appreciate how much he added to my life; I cannot begin to express how shocked and saddened I am to hear of his death. I hope all those who loved him will be able to take some comfort from knowing the legacy he has left in the work he did and in the influence he has had, I'm sure, on many others besides myself. I'm sorry that I can't be with you at the services today; my thoughts will be with you.
Visitation
A period of mourning will be observed at the Summit at Brighton, Wednesday 7-9, Thursday 2-4, 7-9.
Service Info
Graveside Services will be held WEDNESDAY (Today) at 2:30 PM at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Those wishing to attend are asked to meet at the main entrance to the cemetery at 2:15 PM.
Interment
Mt. Hope Cemetery
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