In no particular order and by no means complete... but the following records those whose influence and impression on me has been more than routine.

Jack & Hazel Swartz    My Godparents.  Both now gone.

Thom & Lavonne Marubbio    Good friends -- more like family -- in Fargo. Lavonne is Godmother to Marcus.

Joe & Blanche Mannino    My friends and partners at INTAC.  Like parents away from home.  Both now gone.

Eric Peter Straus    My roommate for junior and senior years at Yale.  My friend and support in tough times. 

Virginia Burrus    We both worked in the Berkeley College dining hall.  A powerful case of unrequited love, on my part.  But we also developed a friendship and sympathy that was a great gift in the last year of college.  She was a speedy typist and very kindly typed my senior thesis on Augustine that I wrote for Jaroslav Pelikan.  Eric, Gini, her friend Georgia, and I made a spring break trip to Virginia Beach. 

Bentley Layton    Teacher at Yale, faithful correspondent when I was in Botswana, gracious host in Israel and in New Haven.

Saul Olyan    Fellow in studies and life at Harvard Divinity School.

Kevin & Penny Winn    From Peace Corps days to present -- good friends.

Sara Lynn Kane    Peace Corps.

Brad Johns & Lauren Stone    Brad was a fellow student at HDS.  Lauren had the good sense to marry him.

Robert Morrow    Employer, companion and friend in running, kayaking, life.

Kenneth Ogawa    Godfather to my son Kaden.  Met at Mizzou Student Health Center.

Denis Wadley    English teacher and advisor at Shattuck.  Now gone.

Elaine Rincon    A lovely friend I met at CPMC.

Thomas White    Fellow and collaborator in the informatics program at Columbia.

Leigh & Sheila English    Preceded me at NDSU and HDS, then got me a job at the Harvard Biolabs and Tufts as well as hospitable friend.  Lost touch for many years but happily just reconnected when I found out they lived nearby in Chesterfield, MO.