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for JAMES MCENTEER
Wayne Wanta
September 27, 2019
He was brilliant, thoughtful, clever, kind. While studying together in the Texas doctoral program, he was one of my closest, dearest friends. This is such sad news.
Talie Timm
September 10, 2019
I knew Jim a little bit in junior high school, such an intelligent, fun person, a character with a smart future ahead, a man who would make a difference, and he did. Sad he,s gone, glad he,s not suffering.
Guy Cartwright
September 10, 2019
Jim. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Miss you.
Guy Cartwright
September 10, 2019
Jim. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Great memories.
Jack Powers
August 29, 2019
I miss you dude.
Steve Sellers
August 8, 2019
News of Jim's failing health brought a flood of memories came to mind. Here's some of what I wrote to Tina at that time. Your reference to "the long, strange trip" (as the Grateful Dead once said) is certainly apt and characterizes much of what we jointly recall from Wesleyan and thereafter (pun unintended but it fits). For all of us it was a time of wandering and seeking a firm path, hounded by the draft, drawn to protest and civil disobedience, enlightened by all nature of experiences.
After Wesleyan I recall Jim dropping in on me here in Guatemala around 1967-68 as I was convalescing from hepatitis, then Mexico D.F. and Zihuantanejo a year later, then when he showed up at our door in Tucurrique, Costa Rica in 1975-76 and soon after Martha Julia and I visited him at a cottage on the beach in Tamarindo on the Nicoya peninsula. Back in the U.S. we met up a few times: I recall sledding on the golf course across the street from our house in Lexington, meeting Tina and her mother in Miami, and a get together when in Berkeley. Both of us being so inclined to wander it seemed our paths were bound to cross somewhere at some point and so, like another song says, I always thought that I'd see you again. We're less peripatetic now and I sense that, despite all the early indications to the contrary, over the past several decades Jim found himself content and fulfilled as a family man. There's a box in our attic back in Lexington where I've got collected correspondence with Jim and other Wesleyan colleagues from those years. If I were there now, I'd probably go up to the attic and read them because it's a pleasant (and tearful) sensation to recall who we were at that age and what lay before us.
C K
August 6, 2019
Please accept my heartfelt condolences. My thoughts and prayers are with the family. I'm so sorry for your loss. May the God of all comfort be with you during this difficult time to comfort you and give you strength.
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