[TCCM] Fwd: for members of your community

[Loni Butera]

 From the Chaplain of the Institute ....


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> From: Robert Randolph <randolph at MIT.EDU>
> Date: March 13, 2008 11:20:56 AM EDT
> To: chaplains at MIT.EDU
> Subject: for members of your community
>
> Friends, I am trying to get this statement/letter widely  
> distributed. I would appreciate it if you would share it with  
> members of your communities.
>
> The Way Things Are: Losses and Blessings
>
> To the MIT Community
>
> Over the past weeks we have lost several members of the MIT family.  
> Robert Wells died in a fall from his place of residence. J. Mark  
> Schuster Professor of urban studies and planning lost a valiant  
> battle with cancer. We said good-bye to emeritus faculty Louis  
> Menand of political science and Frances Reintjes of electrical  
> engineering.
>
> At one level this is the natural order of things. At another, death  
> always comes too soon. What we are reminded of, however, is that we  
> are bound together in a shared enterprise. We are all touched by  
> loss no matter whom, no matter when and no matter why.
>
> Our thoughts and prayers are with the families who have suffered  
> loss. Members of the DU fraternity traveled to be with Robert’s  
> family at a service in New York. Later this week and next month we  
> will celebrate their lives. This is as it should be.
>
> As the same time, our community is also blessed. On March 6, Prof.  
> David Mindell and his wife Pamela, Housemasters in Edgerton Hall  
> welcomed Lucia Flora Mindell to their family and we welcome her to  
> ours; we celebrate with them.
>
> Sunday morning our clocks turned forward, the sun stays with us  
> later in the day and prospects of spring seem more real. Spring  
> break is around the corner. Let us all find new energy for our work  
> together, and for the ties of friendship and family that knit our  
> community ever tighter. With time healing will come, but as the  
> days pass let us resolve to be better friends, colleagues, workers  
> and companions. The ties that bind us are wonderfully strong and  
> should be celebrated each day.
>
> Robert M. Randolph
> Chaplain to the Institute
>
>

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