Perhaps because I fervently believe in Continuity opposed to fragmentation and Order opposed to isolation and chaos, I can accept without question John Donne's truth "No man is an island, entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main..." Thus I perceive in human experience, as in Alan's, both tears and laughter. We are one with nature-generation to generation-and so we share the grief and the happiness. Alan's gift was his three sons and their sons to keep the mystery alive, and his brief sojourn enhances our understanding of the enigma we call Life. So I drive...

An egregious crime took place many years ago that threatened to shatter the very foundation of The Pennsylvania State University and its home town of State College-known to the world as Happy Valley. Once publicized, the notorious case swept across America with almost instant rapidity. The "happening" left a mysterious and complex trail of rumors, false testimony, and a "conspiracy of silence." For more than nine years the matter was unsolved and the perpetrator unpunished. Countless high- ranking officials-accused of a conspiracy of silence-known as a "cover-up" were "punished" or given...