heartbroken

I’m at the Providence train station, and I’ve just received some heartbreaking news from our university.

Last Saturday night there was a garden party at the home of the President of AUC. Among the guests at the party was Steve Everhart, the wonderful Associate Dean of our School of Business. He was headed to Iraq a few hours later to provide some consulting work for struggling universities there. He seemed happy about the opportunity, though understandably a bit worried.

We’ve now learned that yesterday morning, he was killed by a bomb in Baghdad.

Steve leaves behind a wife and three children, one of them an AUC student.

I don’t know what else to say, except that Steve was a witty, likable, accomplished person and someone I was always delighted to chat with on campus.

This is pretty hard to deal with, I’m afraid.

Here is Steve’s BIOGRAPHY PAGE on the university website. This was a wonderful colleague, but also someone I considered a personal friend.