The Call

I had just gotten home from dinner at my future in-laws’ house and I noticed I had a voicemail on my phone. I must have missed it during the dinner. When I clicked on the voicemail, my phone informed me that the caller was from Boston. “I don’t know anyone in Boston,” I said to myself. Then as I listened to the voicemail and heard Don’s voice everything came together. I felt obligated to return Don’s call and over the next week we played phone tag, only to eventually have him leave me a final message saying “Dave, no need to call me back. You’re in!” I remember the night of that call so vividly because it changed my life in so many amazing ways. I didn’t take as many courses with Don as some of the other students, but I took enough to understand just how amazing a teacher he was. LGO certainly won’t be the same without him, but I take some solace in knowing that his memory and values will live on in all of his students who passed through the program.