Elizabeth BJ Infante

We've really lost a shining star with Elizabeth's passing. We were friends at school at the beginning of our friendship, and I remember our regular late Friday afternoon talks when we would discuss kids, lessons and struggles. Elizabeth always took special care with the students she was assigned to and was so smart about coming up with new ways to draw them in. Invariably, suddenly it was dinner time, so we'd track over the Bavaria for Friday night fish. Elizabeth had an ironic sense of humor! I remember movies together that I would have never seen without her, grocery shopping together at Metcalfes, lunches at Nonno's, swapping books, walking in the Arboretum, trying on clothes at Land's End sales, shopping for books and toys for our respective "grands", APT, and long conversations about politics, religion, and "doing the right thing" in situations where the "right thing" was terribly unclear. Elizabeth challenged me to be a bigger, more compassionate person - to think outside the box, and to be braver than I thought I could be. I will miss her.