About
Carl Couch


It has been said that great thinkers have one or two basic insights that escape others. Carl's was simple. We always have to study people doing things together--interacting symbolically. We don't study people. We study interaction.

And so here today we honor, together, through our interactions, Carl and his legacy. We will do this together and it is to Carl's credit, and to the efforts of Dee Dee, Becky, Sue, Steve, Mike, Topsy and all of Carl's family, that we are doing it so effortlessly, with so much love.

And so I know that Carl, to invoke Dylan Thomas's poem, didn't go gently into the good night. He never went gently anywhere. He's out there, Still ahead of us, smiling, calling us forward. Let's get on with it.

Thank you Carl.
Norman K. Denzin