Notes on a Silencing

by Lacy Crawford

Ms. Conklin

Ms. Clunie

Ms. Z...

dance instructor

Mr rein

Linley,

Juan, a baseball player.

Rick?

Mr. Atterbury,

Mr miller

Pete Walters

Scott Fossel

He had a brother in the sixth form who was a redhead,

Andy fossel

“Fiona?”

Rosie stovell

Ms. Shay,

Ms short

Andrew,

??

It was possible only on the rarest of hot days, after the sports season had ended but before the final commitments of the year.

Kent

Mike

C...

Mr. Belden. He taught computer science and

Wardrop?

the recently graduated roommate

our host

Scotty Lynch,

???

Mrs. Fenn,

Galazzi

Mr. Katzenbach,

“Harkness Tables,”

John Buxton,

jolie laide,”

Declan Brophy

Rick.

Brett stickney

His girlfriend

Sam gehring

Stacey

??

cruise.

Mr. Gillespie, aka “The Rock.” He’d been at St. Paul’s

Mr. Belden’s

Mr Dickson

Taz,

Ziggy

His girlfriend was on my tennis team. That’s all I knew.

Courtney

Murph

Sarge

Ninj

done. I just concluded that there had been nothing wrong with their part of it, which was why they spoke of it so openly.

Budge,

Tina

Patty/Jenny kim

Morris,

Scotty.”

Meg

Tabby—

Reverend S.,

Rev sherill

Reverend S.,

??

What is to be said about the fact that the teacher who reached me—who made me not only think but feel, who ignited the material at hand—was one who was abusing his power of connection with other girls? Do we call that an unfortunate coincidence? Am I betraying the women he violated by writing about how he, almost alone and without knowing it, helped me that fall?

Knox Courtland

a fellow rower, enormously strong, with what she called “floppy hair.”

Jamie koven

She loved the way his hair bounced around when he walked, the contrast between this and his oversize smile and muscled body. In a few years he’d be an Olympian, but at St. Paul’s he was just a sixth former named Dave.

Jamie koven

Elizabeth Bishop