Robert was one of my closest friends and a classmate K through 12. We both lived in the Midwood Street "co-op" and our parents were friends. A sensitive, quirky and interesting guy, he was always there and always my friend when others were giving me a rough time at Winthrop (where I was the shortest kid, boy or girl, in each of my classes). I remember our conversation about college the week we graduated from Wingate - he was off to Stonybrook and I to Rochester - and the new experiences we would have.
I was shocked and saddened to learn that he took his own life a couple of years later. Who can ever know what drives a person to take such a step? I wish I could have been there to talk him through whatever it was he was going through and be there for him, as he was for me when we were younger. I miss him.
Nathaniel Deutsch (1969)
Robert was one of my closest friends and a classmate K through 12. We both lived in the Midwood Street "co-op" and our parents were friends. A sensitive, quirky and interesting guy, he was always there and always my friend when others were giving me a rough time at Winthrop (where I was the shortest kid, boy or girl, in each of my classes). I remember our conversation about college the week we graduated from Wingate - he was off to Stonybrook and I to Rochester - and the new experiences we would have.
I was shocked and saddened to learn that he took his own life a couple of years later. Who can ever know what drives a person to take such a step? I wish I could have been there to talk him through whatever it was he was going through and be there for him, as he was for me when we were younger. I miss him.