Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Dear JStC, As my charismatic Latin teacher for Latin III and Latin IV at New Canaan High School in Connecticut, from 1963 through 1965, you gave me and my classmates all of that ancient, gorgeous, rich Latin. Because of that, when I studied Latin V in college, my fellow students looked upon me as a wonder. Of late, you and I shared our particular, almost sacerdotal, knowledge of the magic of Nahant Bay, the sea, the skies, the colors and configurations along Lynn Shore Drive, where I live, in Lynn on the Swampscott border, and which, as a youth, you often walked along for a mile or more, back and forth, stopping at a clam shack I wish were still there. I'm glad I could send you iphone camera photos from Lynn Shore Drive and from around the towns of Lynn, Swampscott and Marblehead, which, along with the Town of Nahant, are part of our almost-secret crescent of storied and sempiternal New England. As you taught us that Catullus wrote, in mourning, "Ave atque vale"...you shall be forever in our memory, Nancy Hutchinson ( Erdmann), NCHS Class 1965
