Archive for the category "The Mourner’s Kaddish"

Memories of My Dad, the English Teacher

31 January 2012

I’m not sure who took this photo; it’s my dad, sitting at his desk in his classroom on the second floor of the upper school building of the Pike School. The kind folks in the Office of Advancement at Pike scanned it from a yearbook. I remember my dad taking many of the photos in [...]

John Hopkins, 1932 – 2011

23 December 2011

After a long, difficult struggle, my dad passed away this past Sunday night. What follows is the obituary we put together this past Monday, which I sent to the local newspapers up in Andover, Massachusetts. I hope that this small paragraph does the man some justice. John G. Hopkins, 79 January 9, 1932 – December [...]