Diary 196

Wednesday. September 30th

A lovely day today spent with even lovelier friends in Marblehead — our first day outside Watertown for several weeks.

I was slightly unsettled by the news that my old place of employment (for 32 years) had issued retrenchment papers and said they’d not rehire any of the teaching faculty next year. What this means, exactly, I am not sure as I have no more details as yet.  It seems that yet another Liberal Arts College is going under. Letters have been sent to students and parents, I’m told, so I’m not breaching any confidentiality.