Agnes Gund

Aggie and I went to school together at Laurel in Shaker Heights. We became very good friends and enjoyed spending time together in sixth grade. We played softball together at Laurel. Wish we had remained in contact with each other, but I left after that year and went to Shaker for seventh grade. (Aggie was the tallest girl in the class ,and I was the second tallest. ) My prayers to all of you! She was a special person when I knew her at Laurel!

My condolences to her family. I met her in the late 1970s in program she funded to put artists in NYC public schools, I was one of three artists. She came frequently over a two year period with Ted Burger to see how program was workings.

My family grew up in the grand neighborhood of Bratenahl, a suburb of Cleveland. The gated community was fenced in and grand huge homes lined the street overlooking Lake Erie. It´s there my mother, an art critic for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Mrs. Gund met. In the last several years I wrote to Mrs Gund, who was a legend in the New York art world. I was slightly afraid, intimidated by her power. A few days later I received a hand written letter from "Aggie" who remembered my mother...