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You can't expect to recover right away, it does take time. If it helps you have a lot of people pulling for you ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Me
Sorry to hear of your loss. My thoughts are with you.
Bob Klauck
Sharing my friend......
The media got it wrong on spelunker vs caver; and teaching cavern vs cave, but it's not anything we haven't seen before from the print media.
Again, thank you for all your kind thoughts.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/A...104/912010360/
November 30, 2009
Kenneth Metz loved teaching, adventure
By Denise Smith Amos
damos@enquirer.com
As a teacher, father and friend, Kenneth Metz was outgoing - literally.
The recently retired physics professor was an adventurer who spent as much time as he could diving, spelunking, flying small planes, backpacking, hiking, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, whitewater rafting and taking pictures.
Over the past two decade he led dozens of Boy Scouts and their fathers through weekend and weeklong adventures for Scout Troop 850 at St. Ignatius Church in Monfort Heights.
Through it all he was the consummate teacher, his son, John Metz, said.
Metz died Wednesday, his 66th birthday, of heart failure.
Metz taught at University of Cincinnati's OMI College of Applied Science for about 40 years. He retired in June.
John Metz said his father lived mostly in Bridgetown and Cheviot.
Metz was the only child of a packaging engineer and homemaker. He graduated from St. Catharine Elementary and later St. Xavier High, and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in physics at Xavier University and an MBA there in 1973.
He was an army reservist during the Vietnam conflict but didn't go overseas. He was a staff sergeant, honorably discharged in 1973.
In Cincinnati he worked briefly for RCA Corp. before teaching at UC.
An Eagle Scout, Metz became involved with Troop 850 when his son joined in 1984.
"He was always taking me on new adventures as a kid. He never said no to anything," John Metz said.
Though John Metz left the troop at age 18, his father stayed involved, organizing outings including the annual "High Adventure" week each summer: whitewater rafting in West Virginia, sailing off the Florida Keys, canoeing in Minnesota. This summer the troop went to Wind River Mountains in Wyoming.
"The kids all call him the Energizer bunny because they couldn't keep up with him. He was very, very fit," John Metz said.
Anything that interested Metz, he'd try. Once he learned it, he'd master it and then teach it.
"He was a teacher by profession but he was also a great student because he'd learn so much that he became an expert," John Metz said. "He loved teaching."
He became a certified diving instructor and taught others cave diving.
This year he was rated for instrumental flight and was president of Victory Aviation, a flying club at Butler County Regional Airport in Hamilton.
At UC he taught physics to about 150 engineering and technology students a year, said James Sullivan, longtime friend and head of the department at the College of Applied Sciences.
As an associate dean at UC, Metz was instrumental in moving the college of applied sciences from downtown Cincinnati to its current location on Victory Parkway near Eden Park, Sullivan said.
He also got Sullivan involved in amateur radio and has spoken to people in about 250 countries, Sullivan said.
Throughout his life Metz traveled much of the country, including the Gold Rush Trail in Alaska. He was looking forward to continuing his travels, John Metz said.
"He died at the absolute peak of his life, when he was happiest and ... doing all the things he ever wanted to do," his son said.
He is survived by John Metz and friend Lori Allen.
Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Tuesday and the funeral is 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Rebold, Rosenacker & Sexton Funeral Home, 3700 Glenmore Ave., Cheviot. Burial is at St. Joseph Old Cemetery, West 8th and Seton avenues, Price Hill.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to Boy Scout Troop 850, c/o St. Ignatius Church, 5222 North Bend Road, Cincinnati, OH 45247.
Wow, I didn't know he was so much like me. Too bad we never got a chance to talk much.Quote:
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You are both in my prayers.