“Hail and Farewell” is a tradition I learned from my days in the US Navy. Military life is punctuated by comings and goings, often of seemingly indispensable people; from the wise master chief who knows everything, to the rising-star junior officer who just got good at the job—they come, and they go.
These comings and goings are always bittersweet. While we can’t imagine what life will be like after the departures, the arrivals bring new perspectives and important talents—soon we can’t imagine how we got along without them.
It is with this sense of the bittersweet that HSLDA bids farewell to one of our long-serving board members, Rogers Hellman, and welcomes our newest board member, Abraham Hamilton III.