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| Book cover |
Street Journal's feature on books, but that is what happened to Ian "Sandy" Frazier’s notable book, Family, in the September 1, 2019, issue of that paper. Mary Norris was asked to list the “Five Best Tear-Jerkers,” and Frazier’s book was selected as one of the five.
It might be just a passing salute for those of us connected with Western Reserve Academy, but this book is about the Frazier family in Hudson, Ohio, and the sad part has to do with the passing of Sandy’s younger brother, Fritz, who was only in his sophomore year at Western Reserve Academy when he died on December 7, 1972. He was just 15 years old and was a victim of cancer.
“To have known Fritz is to have known life in its most animated form,” said Dr. Robert Pryce at the
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| Frederick Schuler "Fritz" Frazier, 1971 |
“Fritz enjoyed living, and he liked having fun, and meeting with new experiences, and being with a warm and lively family, whom he loved, and who loved him.”
Mary Norris writes in The Wall Street Journal, “I sobbed at the deathbed scene, so piercing in its
evocation of the unbearable.”
Fritz has been memorialized on the campus of Western Reserve Academy with trees and a stone bearing a verse from the British poet, John Clare. It is good to be reminded of what a good book Sandy Frazier has written, among the many that he has done over the years. Ian "Sandy" Frazier is an alumnus of WRA, Class of 1969. Family, the book, can be borrowed from many libraries, and an inscribed copy can be found in the Western Reserve Academy's Authors & Artists Collection at the John D. Ong Library.
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| Description of Fritz Frazier's memorial at Western Reserve Academy |
