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Feb. 26, 2013 — The unexpected

Last month, one of my first real sports coaches died, and I only found out about it today. And I’ve felt a great loss. Tom was a person I looked up to — kind of difficult, seeing as he was several...

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Feb. 28, 2013 — Another leg of the journey of life

Today, Catherine leaves for Europe. She was one of the very first people in the program I helped administer, and at the end of the 10 weeks, she was offered a full-time job with the foreign outreach...

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March 15, 2013 — The Ides of March is a milestone

Today’s Game of the Day Alexandria T.C. Williams (Va.) at Alexandria Edison (Va.) For both Edison and T.C. Williams, it will be about looking to make a good start as the Titans make the seven-mile...

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March 20, 2013 — The power of doing one’s job

Today’s Game of the Day Cumming South Forsyth (Ga.) at Cumming West Forsyth (Ga.) This is an early derby match between a pair of teams looking to move up in the ranks of Georgia teams. One month ago, I...

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March 22, 2013 — The one day I missed the bus

Today’s Game of the Day St. Louis Villa Duchesne (Mo.) vs. Louisville Collegiate (Ky.) at Louisville Kentucky Country Day School (Ky.) This weekend, the Kentucky Country Day School brings together...

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March 24, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 1

NOTA BENE: In two months, your Founder will be celebrating his 25th college reunion. Aside from it being an occasion for strangers to figure out how old one is through trumpeting this fact, it is also...

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March 31, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 2

One in a series. It’s Easter Sunday, so I’m going to give my reunion class an essay on religion and spirituality. My 90-year-old father isn’t going to Easter Sunday services today. This, despite four...

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April 4, 2013 — A fitting end, and, perhaps, a beginning?

Today’s Game of the Day Newtown (Conn.) at Milford Lauralton Hall (Conn.) As a contest, this may not be the most competitive. But this is the first time the varsity is stepping on the pitch in a game...

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April 7, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 3

One in a series. Given the fact that my reunion class is likely to be reading these Red Book entries in reverse chronological order, I’m posting the next four entries about my career changes, beginning...

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April 14, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 4

One in a series. It was Valentine’s Day of 2001 when I first started a peripatetic journey within the organization where I currently work. I took the subway into an office complex at L’Enfant Plaza in...

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April 15, 2013 — Making sense of it all

Today’s Game of the Day Nokesville Patriot (Va.) at Haymarket Battlefield (Va.) We’ll call another audible here to spotlight what could be a very good Prince William County matchup amongst a pair of...

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April 18, 2013 — Roots of a murderous plot

Today’s Game of the Day The Lawrenceville (N.J.) School at Princeton (N.J.) Day School It’s been a topsy-turvy season thus far in the New Jersey prep-school ranks. The Pennington (N.J.) School, which...

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April 19, 2013 — The new normal?

Today’s Game of the Day Wilmette Loyola Academy (Ill.) at Winnetka New Trier (Ill.) It’s a prime-time matchup in what could be the game of the year in the Central time zone. Why? These teams finished...

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April 21, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 5

One in a series. This entry starts on Dec. 2, 1997. On that day, I left the newspaper business, having burned out from having to do more with less and with no possible prospects for either advancement...

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April 28, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 6

If you’ve just gotten your Reunion directory (as many others have done in the past week), congratulations for finding this entry and the others I’ve written the last few weeks. I’ll be adding more...

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May 5, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 7

One in a series. In 1996, one of the young athletes that I had a chance to cover before she moved on to college gave me a call at the newspaper. She was turning the tables: she was interviewing me....

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May 12, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 8

One in a series. One of the questions that our alumni/ae association asks of us in writing the entries in our Red Book are thoughts on politics. Mine are somewhat complicated, given what has happened...

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May 19, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 9

One in a series. Somewhere in the archives of The Harvard Crimson is a photo of me taken in September of 1984. I was sitting at the end of a row of Apple Macintosh computers in the new computer room in...

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May 26, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 10

One in a series. You probably have noticed that there is a certain section of the Red Book that has been consistently absent whenever I have made a submission. The segments are for the disclosure of...

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June 2, 2013 — The Red Book, Part 11

One in a series. As I got off the bus taking us back from the reunion-ending party, just about everything I saw evoked a memory of some sort. Everything from the presence of those omnipresent white...

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