I didn't know Don nearly as well as my wife, Carolyn Comiskey, but I loved him for his devastatingly funny wit - he would throw away with such seeming casualness - and for his generous intelligence. I remember one evening sitting near Don in the Fishbowl at U of Michigan, and while we were both waiting for our work to print out, he managed to explain the origins of Surrealism in a brilliant 5 minute nugget. I've never forgotten it.
He was also the only person, including me, who could regularly inspire belly laughs in Carolyn; I've only been able to get smiles and chuckles (she's a tough audience, humorwise). After I first met Carolyn at a party, Don was the one who gave me the correct spelling of her name the next day (it wasn't Kaminsky, as I thought it was) so I could call her up for a date. I can't believe he's gone - we both miss him so much.
-Lee Behlman
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