The Gardiner Gazette, Summer 2015
David Straus: A Quarter Century of Board Meetings by Kaaren Vassell
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Editor’s Note: The Gardiner Gazette is not in a position to include regular obituaries, but we are sometimes moved to comment on the passing of residents who have touched more lives than most. David Straus, a quarter-century fixture at Gardiner Town Board and Planning Board meetings, died on June 11 at the age of 84. The Chicago-born son of two physicians, David became responsible for measuring his blood sugar several times daily and injecting himself for insulindependent diabetes at age seven. His early interests in science included frequent visits to the city’s Museum of Science and Industry. With his parents and four siblings, he spent summers at a family-owned farm near
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