Steve Kaplan

He also played the contra-alto clarinet. 

I visited Ricky's folks on a visit back to NC. His gentle father told me how happy he had been to have recently been married. Driving home, a drunk driver ran into him. 

Ricky had a wicked sense of humor and a huge heart, and was very kind to me on several awkward occassions. 

I think of him many times.

Lea was one of the most original, creative, intensely emotional, strong willed, brilliant people I have known. From her tearful "Ode to Sam" at Holt, her mature and independent-minded arguments on religion with her preacher, her contributions in the honors English seminar at UNC-CH, and her constant, witty and compassionate patience with me and whatever craziness I was currently spouting... I regret having lost touch with her along the way. The world feels a different place.