Julie writes: “Howard and I were fortunate to be able to attend the funeral of our classmate Isaiah “Ike” Harriday ’63 a few days ago, and we stayed for the fellowship lunch which followed. This gave us opportunity to greet Theamarie “Timmie” and all four daughters, and to meet Isaiah’s nephew Darryl Harriday from his home community near Baltimore. We were delighted to meet A. Joris “Jory” Watland ’63‘s niece Marta there.

It was a lovely service, very reflective of this multi-racial family. There were folks from various religious and racial backgrounds present: the former Bishop of the ELCA, Mark Hanson, preached, and the music included solos and duets by African-American singers, as well as hymns familiar to us.

As the obituary indicated, the family suggested memorials to NAMI of Minnesota or to the ELCA world hunger fund, so we did follow the family’s request and wrote a check to one of these organizations. We would hope that many of our class might choose to memorialize Isaiah with a gift to St. Olaf; we did make such a memorial online today, designating ours to students who are persons of color, recognizing the courage and leadership Ike exhibited in being only the second African-American to graduate from St. Olaf.

Julie and Howie

P.S. – On a personal note, we moved this last year from our family home of 44 years to a townhome in Northfield, Minn. We also celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary this summer, with lots of family and friends present.”