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Friends celebrate memories of writer Donald M. Murray

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20070128
Author:Bryan Marquard

DURHAM, N.H. - "Only connect," a phrase from an E.M. Forster novel, was one of many quotations Donald M. Murray used to coax the writer within from his students, and himself.

"He spun a web that binds us together irrevocably now in grief," said Chip Scanlan, who teaches writing at the Poynter Institute and spoke yesterday at a memorial service for Mr. Murray on the University of New Hampshire campus, where he had been professor emeritus.

Teacher, author, newspaper columnist, Mr. Murray was on the cusp of launching a website for his writing acolytes when he died, at 82, on Dec. 30.

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