Thank you for the tribute you paid to Andrew Taylor in the October 31 issue. When I heard of Andrew’s death on Sunday, I had to sit down and cry. He was a wonderful young man and a memorable student in my class in opinion writing at UH in the spring of 2009.
He was not a journalism major, but somehow he found my class without the prerequisites and out-wrote everybody in it. He was warm, funny and down-to-earth. He was going places. What a great guy. What a terrible loss to us all.
— Michael Berryhill
Associate Professor of Journalism
Texas Southern University
I was also in that class and couldn't agree more with Professor Berryhill's comments. A terrible loss indeed.
I first met Andrew in an LSAT prep class. Being a lawyer was something that Andrew cold have accomplished with flying colors. Andrew was truly a rare combination of warmth and wit, and will be deeply missed.