Fred Easter devoted his days to improving the lives of Black people. Often that meant helping students access higher education. Sometimes that meant supporting a grocery store in a food desert or joining a podcast with members of his historic class at Harvard University.
“Fred clearly has a legacy of probably thousands of people whose lives he touched, who when I say touched, he didn’t just touch. He really had an influence,” said Joe Nathan, a former student who remained in contact with him.
Over the course of his eight decades, Easter held a variety of titles: instructor, dean, coach and father, among others. Easter, 81, of Prior Lake, died in September, about three years after he was diagnosed with cancer. A memorial service will be held in the chapel at Carleton College on Nov. 5.
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