A friend from high school

ASIJ [American School in Japan] friends -- Paul Halpern was an artist, a person of creativity and deep (Buddhist) faith. My memories of him go back to senior year at ASIJ when he used to translate Juvenal's satires from Latin for me, and accompany his translations with crazy cartoons. He was a very good friend to me in the lonely years after I'd left Japan and couldn't quite find my way in this country. He was a private person, not in the midst of class conversations or group reunions, so many of you may not have known what a jewel he was. I knew he was ill, but he didn't want a lot of fuss. In his last email to me he still sounded pretty healthy, and I was just on the verge of sending him a video of my granddaughter when I saw, with shock, the announcement from the alumni office. He will be very much missed. With love, Nancy Van Wyk Phillips