In Memoriam

Former 62 WHEN News Director
Donna Speziale Richards
1958 - 2001

I am standing on the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sky and the sea mingle in the mist. Then someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!" Gone where? Gone from my sight, that's all. She is just as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination. Her diminishment is in me not in her and just at that moment when someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!" there are other eyes that are watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here! She comes!"

The Eulogy - May 31, 2001