August Berkshire wrote and read this tribute at the memorial for Robert Nienkerk on June 29, 2015.
Nature just provided us with a brief rainstorm, so we would all have something that Bob would have appreciated: nice clean cars!
In early 1984, Madalyn Murray O’Hair and Jon Murray came to the Twin Cities, on their second or third attempt to try to form a chapter of American Atheists here. This time it worked, and a bunch of us, including Bob & Marilyn Nienkerk, started the Twin Cities Chapter of American Atheists, which became Minnesota Atheists seven years later.