Brookline
High School
Class of
1961
Reunion
Information
The 45th reunion was held October 7, 2006.
Contacts: Larry Kaplan, Gerry Lynch Heffernan
Over the years, the writer's never lost a root curiosity about the fate of people he's known, a curiosity which usually reaches his inner ear in the language of his childhood: "What ever happened to him?"; "What did she do with her life?"; "What did he make of himself?" Though such curiosity of course has a component of self-appraisal, there's also simply the sheer hunger to know. Sometimes, now, considering the various turns his own life may still take, or wondering if in fact the pattern is long since clear to anyone with the eyes to see, the writer asks, "What is my story?" And, when times have been hard: "What will become of me?"
...from Compared to What? (On Writing and the Writer's Life) by Thomas Farber (1988)