Leo Vanderpot

Leo Vanderpot (DGE’57, Wheelock’61) of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., writes that in May 2022 he reached 90 years of age “without incident been writing some prose and poetry, flashes for the most part.” He says he has good memories of BU. “Don’t dwell on Dr. Young, Dr. Blaustein, Dave Trask, and Mary Hawthorne, but Bill Read pops into my head often,” he writes. “He arranged a reading by W. S. Merwin in our auditorium one afternoon. Too bad Bill Read’s passing was never noted in these pages. In October of 1955, my first experience of college, he was on the cover of the Atlantic Monthly, along with Dylan Thomas and Caitlin, his wife.” You can email Leo at leov10571@yahoo.com.