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Hal Flanders 1915 - 2001
Tributes
© Brian Cassell 2001 Jim Olney
Hal will take a part of each of us with him; the part that warmed to that extended hand and infectious smile.
Bernie Zelazny
On 8 October 2001, after 86 years and two months of loyal service, the man we knew as Hal Flanders recycled his body by donating it to scientific study at the Texas Tech Medical School before its final return to the Earth. He had used his body to its full extent towards his desire to have every reusable and renewable resource returned to its proper place for reuse and/or renewal for the benefit of current and future generations on this planet.As I see it, simultaneously the Spirit we knew as Hal Flanders was returned to the Greatest Recycler in the Universe. Hal's Spirit was then halved by the Ultimate Model of Renewal. The first half was imparted to a newly born body in which this Spirit will continue to advance the sustainable use of the resources so generously provided to us by the Earth and the Universe to the benefit of current and future generations existing in these planes, but with a doubled zeal. The remaining half was divided infinitely with an equal share being recycled into each and every Spirit residing in all beings, present and future so that all beings can move closer to the fullest sustainable use of the resources so generously provided to us by the Earth and throughout the Universe.
Hal Flanders has now been fully and completely recycled to the benefit of all beings in the Universe.
Jim and Barbara Walker
Hal Flanders: An Appreciation
Hal and Mary Flanders were among the first people Barbara and I met when we moved to Alpine in 1989. In 1991, Hal began organizing Alpine Recyclers, Inc., a private non-profit recycling effort. We and many other volunteers spent several years working a day or two a week crushing many tons of glass bottles, gathering and crushing hundreds of thousands of aluminum cans, and preparing several other kinds of recyclables. Hal had an outstanding ability to convince other people of the value of this program, partly by gentle persuasion, and partly by his own example of hard work and dedication. He began this work in his middle seventies, designing and building, for example, glass-crushing machines and other equipment largely from salvaged parts. It was his dream to build a recycling program that the City of Alpine would eventually come to operate. He achieved that dream, to the great benefit of the community and the environment. Knowing Hal and working with him was a privilege we will long remember. Indeed, "We shall not look upon his like again."
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