To the Editor,
Your April 3 print issue has only just reached North Carolina, and I much enjoyed Elizabeth Miller’s essay, “News Notes, Social Media, and the Anxiety of Oversharing.” The style of the Personals section under Editor Peter Told and his wife rapidly became old-fashioned. Some time around 1980, Robert Smart, then organist and choirmaster of Trinity Episcopal Church, sent in a notice about a choir recital, listing the names of choir members. The Tolds, who of course knew everyone, amended the names of the married women: I, for instance, became Mrs. Kevin R. Cadigan. Bob was furious!
Judith Cadigan
Chapel Hill, NC
