July 17, 2022
July 17, 2022
Like Fran, I'm just stunned to learn, years after the fact, that Keith is no longer with us. Keith was one of the cornerstones of the Grad Wing in A dorm (for an arts college, we had the most boring dorm names...). A little older than most of us, both serious and full of fun, he was always around, always reading and studying yet always up for hall pranks and amusements. After I graduated and moved up to Marin, he was one of the friends I called every now and then, until I no longer had an up-to-date number for him and he certainly wouldn't have had one for me as I didn't always have a phone. I think this is one of the sad things about our generation: we went our separate ways before email and the internet were commonly used, and so in our twenties, too peripatetic to think about letters and Christmas cards, it was very easy to lose track of people we liked and cared about and hoped to see again someday. Keith and I weren't as close as Keith and Fran were, but he still meant a lot to me and I would have loved to run into him again and hang out. Well--we're at that point in life when sad surprises like this greet our Google searches for old friends. Wishing Keith's family and all his other friends peace.
