Farewell, old friends

Dear Editor,

"Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot (farewell Gene Upshaw, Jo Stafford, Paul Newman, Gene Hickerson) And Never Brought to Mind? (farewell Bernie Mac, Preacher Roe, Margaret Truman) Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot (farewell Herb Score, Cyd Charisse, William Buckley Jr.) And Days of Ault Lang Syne. (farewell Sammy Bauch, Paul Scofield, Heath Ledger, Ertha Kitt) For Auld Lang Syne, My Dear (farewell Bobby Fischer, Studs Terkel, Tony Snow) For Auld Lang Syne. (Farwell Richard Blackwell, Odetta, Georgia Frontiere) We'll Take a Cup of Kingness Yet, (farewell Bob Diddley, Isaac Hayes, Edmund Hillary, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) For Days of Auld Lang Syne."

Sincerely,

Thomas Kope,

Baldwin Park, Calif.