My department at my alma mater has a newsletter that it sends annually to each of us alumni. This bit, amidst the various news items about various of us caught my attention.
"Neville W______ (MA 1978) died in October 2010 in K______, Maine. According to his obituary, "W_______ was well educated, attending Kings College (Cambridge, England), Tufts University (magna cum laude, 1965), and Stanford University upon receiving a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1965-66. After retiring from retail in 2002, Neville was able to return to his lifelong love and pursuit of painting and poetry. He published his first book of poetry, The Early Morning Clapboarder, in 2007. His poems remain a legacy of joy, love and wonder of life. His life is well summarized in a quote he gave for a 2007 interview in the local Tourist News: 'It takes time to reach the center of who you are. I found that life is ever changing, and there are no certainties, only possibilities. Love is man's last great hope of peace and the source of all that's important. The journey is what's important.'"
