"My memories of Kip are when Melissa was in my third grade classroom, and he would help at parties and field trips.  He would always ask the boys if they were Melissa's boyfriends.Melissa would get so embarassed.  He would also stop by a few times a year (after Melissa moved up and Cole was in the building,}  and tell my class it was my birthday and  they should sing to me,  That always wound all the kids up.  He'd laugh like crazy.  I told him he should work with kids.  When he would come in, he would always find the kids with the biggest problems ( i'd never let him know who) and he would sit with them, and talk with them and tease them in the kindest ways possible.  He  wa a good guy and loved his family very much."