All the students at Seton Hall Preparatory School will pray for Larry’s family and ask him to pray for the rest of us next Friday morning in our weekly remembrances of those who have died.

My faith teaches that Larry is enjoying a cigar and a drink from Mr. Twain himself and their conversation is quite energetic and fulfilling for Larry!  

I’m sure all of Larry’s work is being praised by our hero and all Larry's scholarly questions for Mr. Twain are being happily answered.

John Pascal
Seton Hall Prep
> On May 20, 2018, at 7:52 PM, Gretchen Sharlow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Oh so many wonderful memories of our dear Larry Berkove. Who remembers the E=
> lmira conference when we rallied, first to get him to breakfast, then into t=
> he conference session to hear Andy Hoffman=E2=80=99s paper?  (It=E2=80=99s 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 s=
> ad day. Gretchen
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On May 20, 2018, at 3:10 PM, John Bird <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I am very sorry to hear of Larry Berkove=3DE2=3D80=3D99s passing. Larry wa=
> s a fri=3D
>> end, a mentor, and a model to many of us. He was a very generous scholar, a=
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>> s others have noted. Like Mark Dawidziak, I had a poignant moment with Lar=
> r=3D
>> y at the 2013 Elmira conference. I was sitting outside the meeting halls o=
> n=3D
>> a picnic table, smoking a pipe. Larry came and sat down and we had a very =3D=
> 
>> deep conversation, just the two of us. He said some of the same things he t=
> =3D
>> old Mark: about his advanced age and the likelihood that this was his last=
> =3D
>> of the conferences, but also about the importance of the rest of us to car=
> r=3D
>> y on. It was one of those rare moments in life when people talk about thin=
> g=3D
>> s that really matter. As kind as Larry was, he could also be a bit of an i=
> c=3D
>> onoclast=3DE2=3D80=3D94but then, so could Mark Twain, and so can I=3DE2=3D=
> 80=3D94which =3D
>> is why I held Larry Berkove in such high regard. He will be missed by so m=
> a=3D
>> ny of us.=3D20
>> =20
>> John Bird
>> =20
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