{"id":3127199,"date":"2021-12-01T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/roger-polk\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:52:21","slug":"roger-polk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/roger-polk\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Polk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Polk<\/strong>\u2014<em>Roger Polk<\/em>, de 73 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 el 12 de enero de 2021 a causa de la COVID-19 en Oakland, California. Roger naci\u00f3 el 30 de septiembre de 1947, el segundo de dos hijos de Fred Polk y Paula Maria (Berger) Polk, ambos inmigrantes de Austria que adoptaron la fe cu\u00e1quera una vez en Estados Unidos. La familia viv\u00eda en Westbury, en Long Island, Nueva York. Roger naci\u00f3 como Amigo y asisti\u00f3 a la escuela dominical cuando era ni\u00f1o en el Meeting de Westbury (N.Y.). Fue a la escuela secundaria en Oakwood Friends School en Poughkeepsie, N.Y., y fue estudiante en la segunda promoci\u00f3n de Friends World College (FWC), un experimento cu\u00e1quero en educaci\u00f3n experiencial con el objetivo de crear ciudadanos del mundo.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Como estudiante, Roger se interes\u00f3 por el inconsciente colectivo y quer\u00eda ver qu\u00e9 pruebas pod\u00eda haber de ello. Su trabajo final en FWC se titul\u00f3 \u201cLa b\u00fasqueda de significado de la humanidad\u00bb. M\u00e1s tarde, obtuvo una maestr\u00eda en la Universidad Estatal de San Francisco. Roger particip\u00f3 en proyectos y estudios independientes en Europa, \u00c1frica Oriental, M\u00e9xico, India y Jap\u00f3n. En Tanzania, trabaj\u00f3 con Jane Goodall y su marido, el fot\u00f3grafo Hugo van Lawick, rastreando y capturando im\u00e1genes de guepardos en el Serengeti. Las amistades que comenzaron en FWC duraron toda su vida, incluyendo a su compa\u00f1era de clase Kathleen McLean, y a la persona que se convertir\u00eda en su compa\u00f1era de vida, Catherine McEver, a quien conoci\u00f3 en 1969 y con quien viaj\u00f3 hasta su muerte.     <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1987, Roger comenz\u00f3 una carrera de 23 a\u00f1os en el Contra Costa College en San Pablo, California. Su primer puesto fue ayudando con las necesidades audiovisuales en la biblioteca. Cuando la universidad inici\u00f3 su programa de aprendizaje a distancia, Roger convirti\u00f3 las aulas tradicionales en aulas equipadas con c\u00e1maras y micr\u00f3fonos para ser utilizadas para transmitir clases en el canal de cable de la universidad. Produjo programas educativos y se convirti\u00f3 en gerente de la estaci\u00f3n de televisi\u00f3n por cable de la universidad. Roger estaba fascinado con Internet en sus primeros d\u00edas. Mientras trabajaba a tiempo completo, se inscribi\u00f3 en un programa de posgrado en tecnolog\u00eda educativa en la Universidad Estatal de San Francisco y obtuvo una maestr\u00eda en ciencias. A partir de entonces, Roger desarroll\u00f3 aplicaciones multimedia para el profesorado de la universidad y se convirti\u00f3 en administrador web.      <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roger era un \u00e1vido lector tanto de ficci\u00f3n como de no ficci\u00f3n. Coordin\u00f3 clubes de lectura mientras trabajaba en la universidad y despu\u00e9s de su jubilaci\u00f3n. Le encantaban los animales, especialmente los perros, y fue voluntario como paseador de perros en el Refugio de Animales de Berkeley.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roger comenz\u00f3 a asistir regularmente al Meeting de Berkeley (California) en 2012. Aproximadamente al mismo tiempo, murieron tres personas a las que se hab\u00eda sentido muy unido. Compartir sus sentimientos de dolor con los miembros del Meeting signific\u00f3 mucho para \u00e9l. Roger profundiz\u00f3 los lazos con el Meeting y se hizo miembro el 13 de diciembre de 2015. Sirvi\u00f3 en los Comit\u00e9s de Cocina y Propiedad.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roger tuvo muy poco tiempo para disfrutar de la jubilaci\u00f3n antes de que la enfermedad de Parkinson y la demencia con cuerpos de Lewy atacaran lenta pero implacablemente tanto su cuerpo como su mente. Aunque a veces le resultaba dif\u00edcil de aceptar, afront\u00f3 sus aflicciones con valent\u00eda y tom\u00f3 decisiones basadas en las cosas que amaba. Se mud\u00f3 de su singular casa con paneles de madera en Richmond Heights al Lake Merritt Hotel en Oakland. 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