Today on Fresh Air Terry Gross replayed a 1994 interview with Foote. It was very nice to hear his voice. He will be missed.

When I was in elementary school in West Seattle in the 1960s we still had holes for inkwells in our school desks, though we used pencils and crayons. The desks were the attached variety so your seat was on the front of the desk behind you. Noreen Woolf sat behind me in the fourth grade and all she seemed to do was erase, erase, erase, her sheets of paper, and it drove me nuts! When I turned around and told her to knock it off, who got in trouble? You betcha. Not miss goodie-two-shoes with the pink pearl.

SRS