John R. Mann
1949 ~ 1974
From the Arizona Daily Star, November 10, 1974:
Funeral services for John R. Mann, a former Tucson resident, will be at 8 p.m. today in Abbey Funeral Chapel, 3435 N. First Avenue.
Mann, 25, formerly of 2409 E. Second Street, died Thursday, November 7, in an automobile accident near Masiaca, Sonora, Mexico. He graduated from Tucson High School in 1967 where he had been sports editor of the school newspaper.
Mann attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, on a scholarship to study history and social science and was employed by the U.S. Postal Service in Berkeley.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mann of Hayden; by a brother, Joseph T. Mann of Tucson; and by a sister, Irene T. Mann of East Lansing, Michigan.
Mark Leavitt
During my first years at THS, I was pretty enmeshed within the "geek squad," with my interests in technology and radio. John Mann was part of that group too and we became friends. He studied for and obtained an amateur radio license and we shared that activity. I lost touch with him after high school, but a few years later his mother called me with the sad news that he had passed away in an accident in Mexico. May he rest in peace.
Fred Svoboda
Mark and John and I used to have interesting conversations. I remember that at one point we invented a way (at least theoretically) to exceed the speed of light. Regrettably I can't recall the exact nature of this breakthrough in theoretical physics.
We also had theological discussions, which tended to end up with Mark and I vs. John. This was a little interesting given that Mark and I were, respectively, Jewish and Protestant. John was a Roman Catholic and thus obviously the odd man out. Heh-heh.
Good times!