Jan Lewis Heinrichs

I remember that almost everyone I knew who had a class with Mr. Barr thought he was great. Personally, I was always on Team Dean Cozine (also accomplished much after he encountered us Paschal students) and Team John Hill. All of us were privileged to have had some outstanding, inspiring teachers who made us think, often for ourselves and unconventionally.

I, too, have fond memories of Brett, although mainly from junior high. (And he and "Benny" Hall were a hoot together!) I always wondered if he had gone to Reed College, as he had wanted so very much to do at one point, and what he was like as a more-or-less adult. Turns out he was something special, performing as the drummer for Space Opera for several years, some in NYC, and then becoming a bartender at HOP, waiter in a French restaurant in FW, accountant (!), and business manager. Apparently, he was also a wonderful husband and devoted father... a 1980's house-husband, in fact. I wish I had known all this about Brett years ago, instead of learning of it just recently via this chapter from a book... 

www.rockandreprise.net/spaceopera7.html

I'm guessing Brett would've been totally stoked about Dylan's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.

RIP, Brett Owen Wilson... You are well-remembered.