Oh so many wonderful memories of our dear Larry Berkove. Who remembers the Elmira conference when we rallied, first to get him to breakfast, then into the conference session to hear Andy Hoffman’s paper?  (It’s a good long story that we can tell over cigars at the next Elmira conference.)
    Larry was a valued advisor and friend to us in Elmira.  This is a very sad day. Gretchen

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> On May 20, 2018, at 3:10 PM, John Bird <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> I am very sorry to hear of Larry Berkove=E2=80=99s passing. Larry was a fri=
> end, a mentor, and a model to many of us. He was a very generous scholar, a=
> s others have noted. Like Mark Dawidziak, I had a poignant moment with Larr=
> y at the 2013 Elmira conference. I was sitting outside the meeting halls on=
> a picnic table, smoking a pipe. Larry came and sat down and we had a very =
> deep conversation, just the two of us. He said some of the same things he t=
> old Mark: about his advanced age and the likelihood that this was his last =
> of the conferences, but also about the importance of the rest of us to carr=
> y on. It was one of those rare moments in life when people talk about thing=
> s that really matter. As kind as Larry was, he could also be a bit of an ic=
> onoclast=E2=80=94but then, so could Mark Twain, and so can I=E2=80=94which =
> is why I held Larry Berkove in such high regard. He will be missed by so ma=
> ny of us.=20
> 
> John Bird
> 
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