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Cathy Forsythe - General Manager KACC 89.7 FM - Alvin Community College

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Many here may (or may not know) Cathy Forsythe. She and her program at Alvin Community College have provided Houston Radio Stations (as well as other media outlets) quality talent for nearly 30 years.

While undergoing Cancer Treatment monday, she suffered a stroke and is unresponsive. Doctors are evaluating her condition as I type this.

Please keep Cathy and her family in your thoughts and prayers.
 
My prayers are with her and her family. "The Gulf Coast Rocker" wouldn't be what it is today without her.
 
Wow, what a sad thing to happen to such a trooper. I have gotten to know Cathy as I was a student there and plan on making it back sometime in the future. She has kept the most positive attitude through all of this that she has been through and if you didnt know that she was undergoing cancer treatment, you wouldnt been able to tell as she didnt let it affect her spirit. She has kept the most positive outlook on the situation and never let a day go by to where she felt defeated. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family and pray that she make a full recovery. The program has an excellent back up in Mark Moss, and will be in good hands until Cathy returns.
 
Prayers for Cathy and her family!

KACC is a great station. Simply the best rock station in Houston. The Gulf Coast Rocker - "We scare old people!" Love it when they say that.
 
Please Keep us posted i had the pleasure to meet her a few years back and she was a very nice person and very passionate about what she does their at the radio and the school!
 
Cathy is one of the "good one's." It's heartbreaking to hear of this setback. Lots of prayers on your behalf, Cathy. We love you.
 
Too bad there isn't some law in nature that would keep good people from suffering such tragedy.

If there was then surely Cathy wouldn't be in the battle she is in.

Sadly I haven't seen her since her birthday bash last year but it was good to see her in good spirits that night. Come to think of it I don't think I have ever seen her in bad spirits.

All my hopes, thoughts, prayers & wishes are with her.
 
My condolenses to the family and friends of Cathy, as well as the staff of KACC. This is a tremendous loss for the community.
 
Cathy was my producer at KRBE. She was one of the most competent, smartest, funniest, toughest people I have ever known. She was just a joy to work with. While she was at KRBE the entire morning show took a lot of trips abroad for remotes. London, Caracas and other places. She was also a great traveling companion and den mother for the whole gang on these trips. Any success I had at that time I owe mostly to her. It was a pleasure to know her, to work with her and to hang out with her. I am glad she is no longer in pain.
God must have a very special place for her in his heart. This world has lost a truely special person. Cathy and her family, and her extended family of all the young people she taught will certainly be in my prayers.
God bless you and keep you Cathy.
Weaver Morrow
 
My condolences to Cathy’s family.

Me and a friend’s mother (who’s an administrator at ACC) were just talking about Cathy the other day. Cathy was my first inspiration in radio when I was attending ACC back in 1988 – 1990. When I left for a university that last year, I wanted to take Cathy with me to be over that school’s radio station, too.

She was kind, motivating, fun, with a good heart, and knew how to kick you in gear to get things done. I was much shyer then and really didn’t get to befriend her as much as I wished. I would come back now and then when I came home from college, but as the years went by, those visits became fewer and fewer. After that discussion I had a few weeks ago with my friend’s mother, I vowed to visit Cathy and KACC soon. I didn’t do it soon enough.

I would like to do a story on her life on this website I write for. Does anyone know who’d be the best person to contact? (Mark?)

Eric Wilson
www.houstonist.com
 
I've had the privilege to work with Cathy in the Department of Communication for the last 22 years and to have known her for the last 25. During her battle this week I have talked to many of her friends and our former students to try and keep everyone aware of her medical situation. In the course of those conversations, the phrase "great person" was the overwhelming theme. With Cathy, it has never been just about education or broadcasting.

It has always been about making each person that she came in contact with feel special. It might be helping someone that needed to find a way to pay for college, or maybe helping a stranger on the phone who was looking for career advice, even if that stranger had gone to school somewhere else. She could definitely pass out some "tough love" when someone crossed her, but 99% of the time she would deliver that message with an underlying compassion that the student understood. In the last five years she has helped countless cancer patients, most of them complete strangers, as they began their medical struggles. Cathy always had time, or at least she made the time, to treat them all with compassion.

Her strength as a patient has been humbling. She received treatments that would have knocked most of us out of work for a week or more. But come Monday morning, I'd hear Cathy coming down the hallway, look up and see her smile and wonder, "How in the hell can she do that?" I would have been curled in the fetal position waving a white flag, yet there she was, making sure we had a path for the department so that we could help future students.

As a parent, I'm not sure that there could be a more loving mother. She has raised two beautiful, intelligent and caring children that I know will make her proud as she looks upon them. Their strength this week has been remarkable yet it is exactly what we have come to expect because they're Cathy's children.

Like all of us, I am certain there were times of doubt, disappointment and despair. Unlike most of us, she never let those moments get in the way of her innate goodness and caring spirit.

There are no appropriate adjectives to describe how I feel. There is an emptiness to our station, our college and our world that I don't expect will be filled. From conversations over the last month or so, I know that Cathy took great pride in how many lives she touched over the years. As teachers, we always wonder if we're really making a difference. Cathy had that question answered through the countless phone calls and cards from former students and co-workers. I am grateful to everyone that took the time to let her know just how much she meant to you.

Be with God Cathy. I love you dearly and hope to live my life in a way that will make you proud.

Bill Lewis
Alvin Community College
 
Cathy Forsythe was my hero. These days that word gets thrown around too often when it doesn't apply. Well that word applies to Cathy. We call football players heroes because they can score touchdowns. Or, baseball players because they can hit homeruns. Cathy was a hero because she always made time for a student in need. She was willing to dispense advice to people who really needed it. She had a smile that could light up the room.

I was a student of her's for over a year before I found out she had cancer. Because of her great attitude and kind spirit, I had no idea. I was truly inspired in her class and always wanted to make her proud.

Cathy Forsythe will be missed by all who came to know her. After all, heroes don't come around that often.

Mark Simpson
Alvin Community College
 
Words cannot describe the devastation we are feeling at KACC. Cathy was the greatest person I've ever known. Without her guidance, I would be pumping gas for a living. Her strength throughout her struggle with cancer was incredible. She was an inspiration to everyone she touched.

I had the honor of being with her and her family in Jackson when she passed away. It was the most powerful moment I have or ever will experience. Her children were amazing. They were strong as steel through it all. Cathy will always live through them. They are just like her. They were her passion.

Her 2nd passion was KACC. She loved our station, the listeners, and the current and past students who were a part of it. Her positive attitude and willingness to help all people made everyone she touched feel special. Indeed she was a special person, and will always be in our hearts forever.

I know everyone will keep her family in their prayers. Details of her memorial service are pending at the moment, but I will post the information as soon as it becomes available.

In her honor, KACC will continue to ROCK the Gulf Coast and beyond. Her legacy will continue.

Thank you to everyone who has helped Cathy throughout this battle with cancer. It is comforting to know that Cathy passed on HER terms, not the cancer's. Please do what you can to help someone with cancer.

Cathy recorded a wonderful explanation on cancer etiquette of which she won a Texas Media Award from the American Cancer Society. Have plenty of tissues on hand. Please visit www.friendsofcathy.com to hear it.

I will miss Cathy for the rest of my life. I know that right now in Heaven, if there is no radio station, Cathy will build one....and it will be the best station ever.

...until we can share the airwaves again......


Mark Moss
KACC Program Director
 
Cathy taught me what a great mother looks like, acts like and talks like.

Back then, I thought she was made of Teflon.
Apparently, I was right.

I am so privileged to have known her presence, to have known the sound of her voice and to have experienced her quick wit and high standards. I am better for knowing her, then . . . and less for not knowing her, recently.

I pray her family knows just how proud of them she was and is and just how much she was and is loved.

'Till we see you again, Cathy . . .

Lisa (Davis) Schott
KACC Student 1992-1995
"Jennifer Erix"
 
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