remembering Dan Sachs
A monumental stone building remains long beyond the form of its namer's dust. But the fragile, decaying matter of human lives, connected in ordinary ways, prevails. Not merely prevails, but grows.
Daniel M. Sachs, Princeton Class of 1960, was a mighty footballer and a top-honors student. He attended Worcester College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship, and then Harvard Law School, and then married and had a daughter. At age 28, he died of cancer.
At his death about forty years ago, Dan Sachs' friends and classmates established a fund to support Dan's family. They provided that, if Dan's family's needs were met, remaining funds would be for a scholarship in Dan's name. Thus the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship arose.
To Charles and Emily Gillispie, thank you for so carefully remembering Dan Sachs.
Update: Congratulations to Pauline Yeung, recently selected as the Sachs Scholar from the Class of 2008. Fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese and English, Pauline has studied globalization of international law at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. She will attend Worcester College, Oxford, where she plans to pursue a graduate degree in Global Governance and Diplomacy.
THANK YOU DOUG. I'm so glad you took the time, and imagination, to preserve this moment in time. It might be instructive to show to seniors who gather to find out about the scholarship.