Jos wearing a "Papa-bear toessel", a hat he knit. Here is a side view too. Here he is as a model on his toessel web site.
Professor David Menefee-Libey writes,
"I was thinking about the way Jos had of humanizing really huge and overwhelming issues like the religious/political issues we talked about in the portion he taught of my US Congress class: abortion, euthanasia, freedom of worship, etc. Without diminishing the gravity of the issues at hand, he often found aspects of them which were absurd to the point of silliness. A good joke would often diffuse tension, and we could go on with our often very serious discussion. His seriousness and goofiness were woven together."Here's an example.
