Joe was a life-long friend of mine. His parents and mine both immigrated from Germany to the United States around 1951. We were friends since the 4th grade through high school and reconnected again in the early '90's. He moved to Canada after graduating UCLA in Geology and later obtained his Master of Science Degree in Geology at Univerity of British Columbia. For 22 years Joe worked as curator of the M.Y. Williams Mineralogical Museum at UBC before its closure. Joe went on to use the technology he developed there to become an internationally recognized consultant in collections curation.. He died from an automobile accident in Dec. 2001. His mom, Henny Nagel lived to be 99 years old.
Joey Nagel, Dave Damm and I hung out a lot together, sharing stories and jokes about BHHS and life in general at that time.I went on a trip with his father Fritz and mom Henny of the southwest US in 1965 (if my memory serves me). We visited Nevada, Arizona, the Four Corners and cities in SW Colorado. His mom was a fabulous cook and loved apfelstrudel. Joey got a BS in Geology from UCLA, then landed a teaching job at the University of British Columbia, and met his girlfriend. He moved up to BC and they bought a house. I kept in contact with Joey periodically and stayed with them a few days in 1981, then drove the Trans-Canada highway to Calgary (12 hours--brutal!--but the first 2-3 hours were nice, affording gorgeous views of the Canadian side of Glacier National Park) to meet my girlfriend Rosi (now my wife of 33+ years, and still going strong) whom I flew up to Canada for our first vacation together.
Dave, Joey, and I would drive off campus frequently to get away from the boring institutional cafeteria food or brown bag lunches. We went to Jack In the Box on SM Blvd. After lunch we would all look for our favorite parking lot cop, Mr Steve Miletich (or "tich") , as he was affectionately called) to make sure it was safe to reenter the lot without getting busted. :) We never were, luckily. Never had to wear the BHHS handcuffs.
It was very sad to hear that Joey died in a head on collision in 2001--link to the story:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00357529.2002.9925664. His father unfortunately passed at age 70 following complications of colon surgery. It was great to read Werner Brandt's story and especially the part about his mom, who made it to 99! Great genes.
Joey was such a nice person. At Beverly, we shared a lot of classes together. He was always generous with his knowledge and his support. Outside of class he was just as nice. That is a wonderful article about Joey that RIchard referenced (thanks Richard). It is nice to see that he continued to live his life the way he started it -conscientious and helping others. Indeed - a real loss.
Werner Brandt
Joe was a life-long friend of mine. His parents and mine both immigrated from Germany to the United States around 1951. We were friends since the 4th grade through high school and reconnected again in the early '90's. He moved to Canada after graduating UCLA in Geology and later obtained his Master of Science Degree in Geology at Univerity of British Columbia. For 22 years Joe worked as curator of the M.Y. Williams Mineralogical Museum at UBC before its closure. Joe went on to use the technology he developed there to become an internationally recognized consultant in collections curation.. He died from an automobile accident in Dec. 2001. His mom, Henny Nagel lived to be 99 years old.
Richard Garris
Joey Nagel, Dave Damm and I hung out a lot together, sharing stories and jokes about BHHS and life in general at that time.I went on a trip with his father Fritz and mom Henny of the southwest US in 1965 (if my memory serves me). We visited Nevada, Arizona, the Four Corners and cities in SW Colorado. His mom was a fabulous cook and loved apfelstrudel. Joey got a BS in Geology from UCLA, then landed a teaching job at the University of British Columbia, and met his girlfriend. He moved up to BC and they bought a house. I kept in contact with Joey periodically and stayed with them a few days in 1981, then drove the Trans-Canada highway to Calgary (12 hours--brutal!--but the first 2-3 hours were nice, affording gorgeous views of the Canadian side of Glacier National Park) to meet my girlfriend Rosi (now my wife of 33+ years, and still going strong) whom I flew up to Canada for our first vacation together.
Dave, Joey, and I would drive off campus frequently to get away from the boring institutional cafeteria food or brown bag lunches. We went to Jack In the Box on SM Blvd. After lunch we would all look for our favorite parking lot cop, Mr Steve Miletich (or "tich") , as he was affectionately called) to make sure it was safe to reenter the lot without getting busted. :) We never were, luckily. Never had to wear the BHHS handcuffs.
It was very sad to hear that Joey died in a head on collision in 2001--link to the story:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00357529.2002.9925664. His father unfortunately passed at age 70 following complications of colon surgery. It was great to read Werner Brandt's story and especially the part about his mom, who made it to 99! Great genes.
We will all miss Joey.
R.I.P.
Rick Garris
Robert Buck
Joey was such a nice person. At Beverly, we shared a lot of classes together. He was always generous with his knowledge and his support. Outside of class he was just as nice. That is a wonderful article about Joey that RIchard referenced (thanks Richard). It is nice to see that he continued to live his life the way he started it -conscientious and helping others. Indeed - a real loss.
Bob Buck
Carole White
Thank you fellas for posting about Joey...I'm sorry I never got to know him..He seems like he was a fascinating man, in addition to being so nice.