Sincerely,
Jeanne Westphal

I had been doing color analysis for 15 years before I found Kathryn’s website in 2004. I flew to Connecticut a couple of times for training in the 12-tone system. During the second visit, Kathryn mentioned that she was overwhelmed with business, exhausted, and wanted to have trainers to give her the creative time to innovate new products and services. I jumped at the chance and feel fortunate to have been her first trainer.

I believe Kathryn’s legacy is not only her obvious gift of color knowledge and application, but also her love of teaching. She was committed to sharing that knowledge to help others understand beauty and help them create their own businesses. No matter what the question, she would take the time to explain the answer until the questioner fully understood the answer. She freely gave of her knowledge and experience. She was a woman with a great heart. I will miss her.

Thank you so mach for the lovely tribute to Kathryn.
I respect her unique life and deep knowledge for color.
Her contribution to this world and Japan has so huge affect,
and changed my life.
We will never forget her.

Yours Sincerely
Toshiya Hashimoto

This first email was the beginning of a long, long conversation with Kathryn Donovan which ended all to soon.

My work day unofficially began each morning, with turning on the computer on waking, just to check in case there were new emails from Kitty. My workday unofficially ended each night with the switching off of the computer, but not without first checking to see if there were any new emails from Kitty. Although so far away it was as if Kitty was in an office, or a house, or a room, just down the road; or perhaps a just across the other side of town.

I never believed that the internet could provide a forum for getting to know some one. But now I believe it is possible. I trusted kitty. I trusted her judgment, I trusted her expertise, I trusted her motivations, I trusted that she cared, and I trusted that she would always say it as it was, straight down the line, upfront and honest. Kitty was a woman you could trust to always be who she really was. Such a rare and valuable quality!

Thank you Kitty for trusting in me.

I talked kitty into getting a web cam. The one small regret I have is for not hounding her to learn to use it! It would have been great to ‘see’ her more. She said it sat over on a shelf, and that one day she must get to using it. In the end though perhaps it did not really matter. In the end the emails were good enough.

I have a file in my ‘inbox’ marked Kitty. It contains hundreds of conversations, contained in hundreds of emails. Some are all jumbled up. As in ‘real’ life conversations are not always linear, but can continue on after weeks of neglect. Kitty always got back to you even if you had forgotten the question!

The conversation with Kitty will not end here. They say that death is the end of a life, not the end of a relationship.

Thank you for being in my life Kitty. I will miss you.

Amelia in Australia.

I can still hear and feel the passion of Kitty. We talked the whole evening after the class and this great mentor of coloration allows me to bring such a scientific and artistic system to Asia, being the first one. I am blessed. Her voice, her sharing and her way of seeing people are still like a masterpiece painting in my mind. I have started my 11th classes of Sci/ART color analysis; applied this to my corporate training & Asian business forum sharing; and incorporated it into my naturopathic practice. Psychologist, CPA, banker, artist, stylist, CEO… are all convinced by Kitty’s work. I heard of this tragedy just when I decided to bring her passion to China. Although it’s sad, my determination on this will only get stronger, as I am sure that Kitty will be very happy to see this happens. Kitty’s works and researches on Human Coloration has marked a new page of human understanding and application of color. Your mentees will continue to write the new history, page by page, from West to East… I miss you Kitty… We planned to meet in May again… but we’ll meet everyday whenever I see color. Desmond in Hong Kong