A friend of campus and community
New to NKU and the Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement a year ago, I met Danny at a Friends of Steely event — and from that moment on it was as if I had known him for years. He was welcoming to me, and as importantly to the work of the Center. He unfailingly supported the Center’s work, introduced me to the language and literature faculty and was a ready partner each time the Center sought to connect campus and community.
For his many friends who knew him for years, what a good fortune. For those of you who, like me, were new friends, the loss is deep, too.
In “The Friends of Youth,” Yeats wrote words that describe a man like Danny, whose joy was life and friendship:
“Laughter not time destroyed my voice
And put that crack in it…. “
Each of our lives, I suppose, is a story. Danny’s was too short, but whatever his lacked in length it made up for in a soulful of embrace of being human and humane. Maybe its our cause now, to assure no deficit in kindness and laughter.