Ronald H. Rappaport
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School girls’ tennis team just won its fourth state championship in a row.
With the recent death of Bill Graham, it is worth remembering the remarkable job that he did in rescuing the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital from its bleakest moment 20 years ago.
Jerry Kohlberg was a brilliant man. His incredible intellect never ceased to impress me during the more than 25 years I knew and worked with him.
The death of former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke comes as a personal loss for me. I had the distinct honor of working for Senator Brooke in Washington, D.C., both as a summer intern in 1970, and for two years following my graduation from college.
We quietly lost the dean of Vineyard builders when Donald DeSorcy died recently. Outwardly tough, he had a warm heart and the best design and construction skills.
As recent lengthy obituaries in national newspapers attest, Anthony Lewis was a remarkable journalist. What always struck me most about his writing was the clarity of his thinking, the forcefulness of his prose and the directness of his voice. A legal journalist and columnist for The New York Times, he made the complicated decisions of the United States Supreme Court understandable to lawyers and non-lawyers alike.