Remembering Rich Male, who made lives better not just in Denver, but around the world.
, activists who busted up sidewalks and laid down on Colfax Avenue to protest how hard it was for people with disabilities, especially those in wheelchairs, to get around in Denver. The curb cuts that make it easier to roll a stroller or a suitcase off and on a sidewalk? Rich helped standardize them in Denver and around the world., a memoir and collection of remembrances from friends and loved ones published in 2021, I was gobsmacked by what I learned about a man I thought I knew well.
I knew that Rich worked to protect elephants in Kenya and reduce HIV/AIDS in Botswana. That he championed reproductive rights in Guatemala and democracy in Mongolia. I knew that he promoted literacy and library development in Ethiopia, where I was privileged to travel with Rich and his eldest son, Abraham, in 2008, as emissaries of, an organization he coached and loved and where I worked for three years, thanks to Rich.
Most personally, I knew that Rich was a devoted mentor, coach and friend who changed my life. For sixteen years, he helped me strategically plan my life. He made introductions and found me jobs, shared the curriculum of classes he taught at Regis University, the University of Denver and other schools. I did not realize the full extent to which he played the same central role in the lives of dozens of others. Hundreds, over the course of five decades.
The Male children – Abraham, Sarah, Daniel and Juliadele – are all now established, accomplished in different ways, all able to read and recite in Hebrew the Kaddish that soothed mourners who gathered at Rich's gravesite Rose Hill Cemetery last Tuesday, taking turns shoveling earth onto his casket. At his service, Evelyn shared that, in the end, Rich was not depressed or sorrowful about what the end of his life meant for him. Rather, he was deeply disappointed that he wouldn't see in full bloom the work of those he left behind.
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