Remembering Robert Fitch
An overflow crowd at New York’s Brecht Forum on September 18 commemorated the life of the late journalist, author, scholar, educator, activist, union organizer and frequent New Politics contributor Bob Fitch, who died in March after complications from a fall. Among the speakers were Bertell Ollman, Steve Bronner, Doug Henwood, Christian Parenti, Jonathan Fitch, and Michael Hirsch. Below are Hirsch’s remarks.
Those of us who ever saw Bob Fitch make a presentation know he followed the showbiz adage that “if it’s not on the page, it’s not on the stage.” Bob said extemporaneous speakers risked shortchanging their audiences. In keeping with Bob’s precept, I’ll read these remarks.
Shakespeare talks about the seven stages of man. For the Bard they ran sequentially. For Bob they ran more or less simultaneously.
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