Bill High

My very good friend Bill High died in a traffic accident on Friday. Bill was a guy who did not own a computer, and never carried a cell-phone. He never used email for personal correspondence; a note-card was far more to his liking. Bill had a sharp, wacky, intellectual sense of humor. He didn't believe that information packaged in bite-sized feeds for easy digesting was of much value - if we saw a movie together, I'd be likely to find sixty xeroxed pages of scholarly articles about the director in the mail a week later. Bill devoted his professional life to the welfare of children, first as a child protection social worker, and later as a social worked in the Durham public schools. I can't believe he's gone.