(From Rick Sanjek)
Dear cousins, family and friends:
David Sanjek reached his
final resting place on Memorial Day weekend in Timberlake Cove in Plymouth VT,
as was his wish.
He had worked for eighteen summers at Camp Timberlake, mostly
as the director of the waterfront.
One of his campers who lives in New York, Colin Mitchell,
graciously carried David’s ashes to a gathering of staff and alumni, all friends
and colleagues of Dave’s.
In Colin’s words:
“I have
pulled together 131 photos from Dave's memorial. These have been gathered from
many of the people in attendance:
(Colin is
the big guy in the Aloha shirt in the pictures)
“The event
was broken into 3 parts, each captured in the pictures. The first part was
gathering all of the people who had come from near and far into a single place
(the Timberlake Trading Post). Many of us had not seen each other in 20+ years,
so there are many pictures of people greeting each other and catching up on each
other’s lives. This is the first 68 pictures. The next 16 pictures cover the
40 minute Quaker Meeting for Worship that was held in Dave's memory. The
remaining pictures document the days final activities, including placing Dave's
ashes to rest in the water in Timberlake cove, just off the docks where Dave ran
the waterfront for many years. We sang songs as a group and individually, and
some even went for a spontaneous swim with Dave after the ashes had settled.
The final picture is a nice shot of the cove where Dave rests, taken from the
waterfront docks.”
As you all know, Dave’s life was immersed in knowledge and
music and he spoke eloquently like a skilled musician immersed in the art of
language that came out in long improvised riffs of dramatic, cohesive and
symmetrical proportion.
As Irving Berlin once wrote, “The song is ended, but the
melody lingers on…”
For me, Dave’s melody will linger on forever!
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