Stark School Administration (mrhowardstark) wrote in marvel_prep, @ 2015-01-30 00:06:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! news, giant-man |
News: Science Op Ed
Characters: ---
NPCs: Hank Pym and mentions of Howard Stark
Location: Daily Bugle Website
Timeline: 1/30 - Morning
Description: A key member of the science community reacts to Howard Stark's death.
Rating: PG
REACTIONS: The Scientific Community Mourns One of Its Own
Posted: 1/30/2015 09:10 EDT
There has been an outpouring of emotion from the scientific community following the death of Howard Stark. One of the first to comment on Stark's passing was Dr. Hank Pym. The notoriously private inventor whose discovery of Pym Particles altered the course of biomedical engineering and industrial manufacturing practices took to his popular science blog to express his feelings following this morning's news.
The following excerpt is posted, with permission from www.littlebiguniverse.com: I woke up to the news this morning, and I didn't know what to say. In honesty, I still don't really know what to say. I've been to enough fundraisers to know that, of all the great industrial minds of the world, Howard was the most charismatic. The irony is that I'm sure he could find the words that make meaning of his tragic death. All I can tell you is what he meant to me. Howard Stark was a hero of mine growing up. He was a man from humble beginnings who used his intelligence to make a name for himself, to create things that made the world a better place. The Stark Expo was a fixture of my boyhood imagination—science fiction turned into science fact, proof inedilible that we could really have it all if we put to work the boundless human curiousity that each of us possesses from birth. I was lucky enough to work with Howard on a handful of projects. Meeting him had long been a dream. Working with him was occasionally a nightmare, depending on whether or not I was on the wrong side of the negotiation table. He was tough. Unflappable. He liked to win and wasn't afraid to admit it. No one would call him modest, but he also never took more credit than was his due. If he liked your ideas, he said so. If he didn't, you knew why before he even had to say a thing. This was because ideas were his livelihood. What those of us in the scientific community hope to accomplish in a year or even a lifetime, Howard could make real in a month. He was a man of incomparable vision. He didn't just project trends. He could practically see the dreams of the country. He put those dreams in our homes, in our hands. He gave us the tools to succeed. All my life Howard Stark has shown me a roadmap for the future, and today, the future is that much more cloudy without him. Right now, my thoughts and prayers are with those Howard left behind, his colleagues at Stark Industries as well as Howard's exceptional school, and of course with his son, Tony. |