David Halberstam’s New York Service
May 30, 2007
Jean and Julia Halberstam asked me to pass this along:
There will be a memorial service for David Halberstam in New York City on Tuesday, June 12th, 4 pm, at the Riverside Church, Riverside Drive and 121st Street. Julia and Jean will receive friends across the street in Riverside Park after the service. There will not be a service in Nantucket.
“David loved those days of “Third World Softball.” Frank Conroy will be pleased that Billy Taylor will be at the piano, playing as people enter the church. What a full and rich life he had. For the last decade or longer, he would say to all of us - walking friends to a taxi after a dinner party here or leaving a restaurant or just the 2 of us - “aren’t we lucky!” So Julia and I have bought a bench on Literary Walk in Central Park saying exactly that. His is a few benches away from George Plimpton’s (which says “When there is no wind, row), and Jim Henson’s is nearby. Good company.”
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Ann Warner Arlen | June 14, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Thank you for this sweetness of Jean’s words.
Simply in his being, David was and continues as a teacher of what it means to be a human being seeking and attaining his best, without excuses.
I recall him vividly on The Harvard Crimson in the 1950’s. He was Sports Editor (before he became Managing Editor), yet from that perch had a global reach. The McCarthy hearings were on television. I was about to embark for England. He said it was important to understand what was going on in the hearings because people over there would want to know.