[Pols-l] FW: From Mrs. Francisco

Tue Nov 7 14:02:19 CST 2017

FYI, update from Debby Francisco.
DHM

From: Pickerel, Linda M.
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2017 12:18 PM
To: bjmill at yahoo.com; Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick <dhmarkel at ku.edu>
Subject: From Mrs. Francisco

Hi, Linda, It's good to hear from you!  I don't check Ron's email very often - maybe I should!

The short answer to this professor's question is: Ron can no longer help & I'm not sure I can.  But I'll ask our son; he can often find a patch for these things.

I'm sure you wonder where we are & what we're doing these days.  I'm truly sorry we haven't kept in touch.  We weren't deliberately ignoring everyone; it was simply a matter of trying to tread water & meet immediate, screaming priorities.  Chris & Cynthia, our son & daughter-in-law, had been begging us to move here to Stillwater, OK, to be closer to them.  Ron's doctors encouraged it too, but we both loved Lawrence and our home, & Ron vehemently refused to leave.  However, last Christmas I could see the handwriting on the wall: I needed help with both Ron & our home. To make a long story short, we visited Stillwater in late winter to celebrate Ron's birthday, unexpectedly found a lovely house, sold our beloved Lawrence home before it even hit the market, and moved in early July.  It was a whirlwind that seemed self-propelled once it began.  I think I'm grateful for that.

We're now settled in tiny Stillwater, a very kind and friendly college town. It reminds us of the Lawrence we knew at the beginning of our careers decades ago. Chris is currently Chair, pro tem, of the math department, and both he and Cynthia, also teach in the department.  Our "baby" grandson, Ben, is now in the first grade & we still can't understand how that happened so fast. All are thriving and enjoying small-town family life - as long as the Internet is up & connecting them to the world-at-large!

Ron is doing as well as can be expected.  Lab tests show he is physically very healthy, but the FTD (frontotemporo degeneration) is definitely taking its toll.  He doesn't write; rarely speaks, and then only in single words; doesn't understand most language; and doesn't run anymore.  At present, he's a shell of the Ron you knew.  But I can still find traces of my dear husband, and I'm grateful he is still with me.

Please feel free to send my message to the department and to others you think might be interested. Ron thinks of all of you warmly and he will always cherish his days on the Hill.

Rock Chalk from OSU Cowboy country!
Debby & Ron

4012 Woodland Trails
Stillwater, OK. 74074

dsfrancisco at gmail.com<mailto:dsfrancisco at gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 4:34 PM Pickerel, Linda M. <lpicke at ku.edu<mailto:lpicke at ku.edu>> wrote:
See below and let me know how to respond, if able.  Take care, Linda

From: Steinert-Threlkeld, Zachary [mailto:zst at luskin.ucla.edu<mailto:zst at luskin.ucla.edu>]
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 3:37 PM
To: KU Pols <kupols at ku.edu<mailto:kupols at ku.edu>>
Subject: Trying to Contact Professor Francisco

Hello,

Do you have a way I can contact Professor Francisco?

I am a professor at UCLA, where I study variation in protest.  Professor Francisco’s Protest and Coercion Data is great (http://ronfran.faculty.ku.edu/data/index.html), but the link to the Latin America dataset is broken.  I would like to ask him for a copy of the dataset.

Thank you,
Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld

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