With heavy hearts the Whitacre family announces the passing of David Whitacre on December 12th. His passionate, brilliant and humorous sense of self will be deeply missed. One of his favorite novels was Zorba the Greek, and I share this quote from it: "While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been."