Dear friends, I know you dread having to read more obits, and I dread writing them. But at our age it goes with the territory. And, as Randy Alfred reminds me, the best thing we can do for those who have gone before us is speak their names and keep their memories alive...
In this spirit, we have lost two more classmates who will be sorely missed: Al Allston and Chris Dunleavy. Al died last April from leukemia, 24 years after he was told he had less than a year to live. But he had other ideas and went on to not only live more than two decades but also enjoy everything life had to offer...
After graduating from Yale he got his J.D. from Duke and embarked on a career of fighting for civil rights, community development and economic empowerment. He was assistant director of the South Carolina Council on Human Relations… READ THE ENTIRE COLUMN HERE