Word: butterfields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they agreed that the state of affairs in the world had taken a turn for the worse since the early 1970s. The were both pleased that the Indochina War had ended, but they acknowledged that evil was still widespread--and people seemed less willing to fight it. And Mrs. Butterfield was worried about her husband, Lyman H. Butterfield, professor emeritus of History, who had not been well...
...that point in his life, the alumnus had been having a tough go of it. Nothing had seemed to be going right for him. But as he sat with Mrs. Butterfield, he felt the first feeble rays of optimism beginning to light things up. He left her office much happier than when he entered...
This spring, the alumnus learned that Mrs. Butterfield had taken ill just after she retired from Harvard. He wrote her a letter, in which he reminded her of a promise made years before. Would he be able to do his profile...
...Butterfield was not feeling well. The alumnus made a note to keep in touch with her--perhaps her condition would improve, and she would be able to talk to him about more of her Harvard experiences, about her life before moving to Cambridge in 1954, about the bookstore which she managed in addition to her job to raise money for Bryn Mawr, her alma mater...
...alumnus never thought his profile would come in the form of an obituary, a clumsy effort to capture the sparkle of a woman who so touched everyone around her. He sure wishes Mrs. Butterfield were around to help...