Dick Simon taught in the English Department at Cal Poly from 1988 to 2004. He inspired respect and affection in colleagues and students. His life was celebrated at a ceremony in the College of Business auditorium, the venue that filled for years with people eager to hear his multimedia lecture presentations. Brief asbestos exposure during his college days caused his untimely death. He met it with courage and grace.
Dick’s website archives his extensive intellectual legacy as teacher and scholar. He published two books and was working on a third. His Memoir, produced during his last year and completed a month before he died, provides a 304 page illustrated retrospective of his life and times.
