Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 8/10 EDWON SIMMONS ’93 What’s in a name, Shakespeare famously asked in Romeo and Juliet. Juliet observes, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Names are sometimes a curse, but they sometimes get right at the heart of the matter. Edwon […]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 4/10 DONALD WHITESIDE ’87 The greatness of a man is measured from the neck up, Napoleon said. Donald Whiteside never commanded armies or fought in wars. He has from his early beginnings smart, shrewd and instinctive. He also was a guy that was never afraid to cut his […]

Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 8/09 JOHN STANDRING ’66 Memory is precious and peculiar, especially childhood recollections. They flood the consciousness, drifting, floating, permanently held together as if roped together. “Memory believes before knowing remembers,” William Faulkner famously wrote. Some six decades ago, when he was just three years old, Jay Standring recalls […]