In Memory

Robert Altman - Class Of 1969

Robert Altman



 
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07/09/10 01:28 PM #1    

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.


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