David Latimer Raine Jr.

David and I were classmates at Washington and Lee and worked together as proofreaders on the literary magazine Shenandoah. My favorite memory is of the time we decided to go to a fiddle festival in Pipestem, West Virginia. My wife, Sugar, and I didn´t have a car and the ever generous David offered to drive us. We drove through the night and when we reached Pipestem, slept uncomfortably in his little car. As the sun came up friends who played in an old time string band surrounded the car and...

When David was a high school senior, we fell into conversation about The Big Questions of life, love, and the cosmos. He was so smart and articulate! While he was confident and knowledgeable, he displayed not a dram of arrogance. In particular, I was impressed by his knowledge of the ideas of Ayn Rand and by how he was so confidently able to speak about the work of this highly controversial intellectual, and to hold forth without any apparent fear of how he was going to inspire many people to...

When David was a high school senior, we fell into conversation about The Big Questions of life, love, and the cosmos. He was so smart and articulate! While he was confident and knowledgeable, he displayed not a dram of arrogance. In particular, I was impressed by his knowledge of the ideas of Ayn Rand and by how he was so confidently able to speak about the work of this highly controversial intellectual, and to hold forth without any apparent fear of how he was going to inspire many people to...

I knew David in high school, and he impressed me as one of the brightest and most engaging bulbs I ever met.

It was an honor to watch my little sister, Leah, dance with David for the father daughter dance at her wedding. Zoe has been an additional sister we are blessed and thankful to have in our lives. David, you will be greatly missed! thank you for all you´ve done to touch the lives of others. Thank you for being you

Sorry for your loss. Wishing you and your family peace and comfort during this difficult time

Condolences to all his family. David and I worked together on the high school literary magazine and were involved in drama. We last spoke after he was a student at W & L and had recently returned from a year in NY publishing. He reported that he was somewhat taken aback by the amount of alcohol consumed over publishers' business lunches. We also debated the beginning of modern extistentialism. We both were probably mistaken but it was a decent discussion of the different approaches: David's...