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for DAVID HUME
March 17, 2015
St. Davids would not be the school it is today without David Hume. He embodied everything that is right about that wonderful plave.
Niel Cannon ('59)
Grant Hammond
March 13, 2015
We at the Mystic Seaport Boathouse will miss you, David.
March 12, 2015
Mr. Hume's vision, creativity, interest, devotion, enthusiasm, and love of art and music as expressed through his headmastering of St. David's have stood by me as a rock throughout my life, a strong place inside me. I will be ever grateful to him, and my heart goes out to Catherine and family as you suffer his loss. Marek Pyka '67, East Calais,Vt.
John Fennell
March 6, 2015
I knew David Hume for almost six decades, from the time I attended Saint David's first seventh grade back in 1956-57 until approximately two or so weeks ago when I sat with Cathy, David's wife, at a hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina, keeping a vigil at his bedside. There was no question that David was dying: it was just a matter of when. He lasted throughout the long night and drew his last breath in the early morning hours of February 18, Ash Wednesday.
I cannot adaquately express how grateful I am for having been present at David's passing. It afforded me the inestimable privilege of placing a soft kiss on his still warm forehead. The kiss was not so much in way of saying "Goodbye" to David as it was a "Thank you" to my life-long mentor and would-be father.
Kenneth
February 24, 2015
Thoughts and prayers for the grieving friends and family, God's blessing
February 23, 2015
A towering figure in my life from 1960-1970 and beyond.
Kent R. Vogel 1970
February 23, 2015
I wish I had known him better. God bless and keep you. Judy Snipes.
Victoria Gilbert
February 23, 2015
I had the privilege of being hired by David to teach in a job that I have loved since the day I began over 28 years ago. He was a true HEAD master and you were always delighted to see him stop by your classroom because you knew you would learn something interesting and immediately applicable to your class after a short exchange with him. It was an honor to have worked with him!
Rey Buono
February 23, 2015
David was the first, and best Head that I ever worked for. He hired me straight out of college, set me up in a fifth-grade classroom, then, gave me all the freedom and support any young teacher could want. From the get-go, he understood my theatrical temperament and need to find original ways to be a teacher.. He allowed my to find my metier, and to fall in love with a profession that is still at the core of my life.
The school was a delight, an utter extension of David's energy, humor, enthusiasm and polymathic reach. I could spend hours and pages describing all the things that made it special, but suffice it to say that 12 East 89th Street was a place were all of us, students, teachers, and, yes, even parents, encountered gladness.
"And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche."
Lawrence Weber
February 22, 2015
A man whose life and work blessed so many.
Kevin McKiernan
February 22, 2015
Decades after graduation, he was still "Mr. Hume" to me and I always looked up to him.
May he rest in peace.
February 20, 2015
May God comfort your family. 1Cor 1 : 3,4
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