Lou Ureneck '72, chair, journalism department, Boston University: "I learned basically one thing from him: There's joy in the work, and the harder you work, the fuller the joy."

Tom Newkirk, UNH professor of English: "As much as Don tried to describe his process of writing, it was its unexpectedness that truly fascinated him . . . . A writer could choose a word that would set off an unanticipated set of associations and lead to a digression, a new possibility, a new focus, perhaps to the true heart of what needs to be written."

John Christie '70, publisher, Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel: "He believed in words and sentences and paragraphs and spoke of them so passionately that, as Yeats wrote of the great poets, 'One believed he had a sword upstairs.' 'I know writers,' he said. 'I am a writer. I'll write with you, and we'll both be writers.'"

Meg Heckman '01, reporter, Concord Monitor: "As a student at UNH, in a journalism lab bearing his name, I learned, per Don, that journalism is as simple——and hard——as these three things: You ask. You listen. You write."

Jon Kellogg '70, editor of the Waterbury (Conn.) Republican—American: "He helped me to learn how to think on my feet. He opened the joy of writing to me. He insisted, in whatever I was doing, that I get to the point."

Tom Osenton '76, adjunct professor of marketing and Don's housemate: "During the final months of his life, I would often find him sound asleep at the computer in his office——fully dressed in a bright shirt with ink stains on both pockets . . . . Startled, he'd wake up and almost always give the impression that he had just fallen asleep. 'I've done some good work on our project this morning,' he'd say, out of guilt for having catnapped for 10 minutes. He felt this overwhelming need to pull his weight in this life."

Lisa Miller '80, '88G, UNH associate professor of journalism: "I met so many people through Don; he loved bringing people together. He saw people in a way we couldn't quite see ourselves but wanted to. He treated students as writers, so they became writers. He touched people in a deep way by being able to see their best selves."

Don Murray '48, from his second—to—last "Now and Then" column in the Boston Globe (his last column was published three days after he died): "I have an obsession. I write. I draw. I try to capture a fragment of life and reveal its wonder to you. I never get it quite right, but there is a joy in the trying that makes me young. My New Year's wish for you, old and young, is that you find in the year ahead something you can't do."