05/06/2026
MUS 2006, high school graduation. Two decades on I’m still the nerd I always have been. My senior quote seems at odds with my professional calling, but I think of it more and more frequently: “Surely there is a lesson for us all here today; a lesson of change, of change which is written upon humanity as it is upon material structure, whether of wood or stone; a lesson of decay; a lesson of the limit of human effort; a lesson of the advancing tide of events as time rolls on its irresistable march, sweeping away life, monuments and edifices - all things but the essence of good.” -Douglas Walworth. We have tragically lost a number of our classmates through the years, most recently Alex Rainer. Some of my earliest and best memories are hanging at the pool in the Summer with the Rainer boys and the Dillons. I hadn’t seen Alex in years and years, but I can still hear his laugh clear as day. A GoFundMe has been set up in support of his family, and I encourage giving to it - and remembering the essence of good that Alex had so much of in him.
