My love and condolences to the family. I remember my Sonoma School days with her son James in my class and the times at their house on Colleen street. We lived around the corner on Ruth Way. She was a kind and extremely smart woman who I had much respect for as a kid and adult.

In 2011 and 2012 I was fortunate enough to spend my summers with Dr. LeBlanc and her husband. I was an arrogant junior high boy and I found a calmness and inquisitiveness in their household I had not known. She is a remarkable soul. I will continue to cherish the memories of the dust free weights and measures, the glimpses at topology, the art of bonsai, and of course the cello. God bless and keep her in the hall of saints.

I was the first of the Berkeley classicists who were lucky enough to work on Greek with Mary. I say 'work with' because, as James has already said, she really did not need much more than the occasional correction or suggestion. Indeed, coaching someone with as incisive and disciplined a mind as Mary's was a great way to reveal one's own assumptions and blind spots, and I am sure all of her teachers learned much from her about their own subject (I sure did). The greatest inspiration Mary gave me, however, was the example she set in life-long learning as a way of life. We are all aware, I think, of her accomplishments in multiple fields, above all that of her PhD (those are not easy to come by); but she knew there was always more to learn, more joy to be had from the process, and that one is not defined by any particular specialty. And so I follow the example, a scholar of Latin and Greek who is just about OK at programming and ever threatening to finally conquer the Calculus. Thank you so much for that Mary!