Memory
Not without Honor
“A prophet is not without honor save in his own country and in his own house,” does not apply to Henry. When he retired as Dean at the University of Utah, all his 15 brothers and sisters, their spouses, and many of their children and their children’s children, making a group of more than 90, gathered in Salt Lake City to honor him. We had not all been together as a single family group in more than 40 years. It was an unselfconscious acknowledgement of his family’s affection.
One early morning several years ago we ran into each other on a back street in Atlantic City, neither suspecting that the other was in town, and had breakfast together. It pleased him to think that a Divine benevolence had caused our paths to cross. We differed in our belief concerning this, but I am grateful for the crossing of our lives and am content to leave this out of the realm of chance.