David Thorup Rowley

I want to pay tribute to one of our classmates whom I have thought about for decades.  Those of you Wasatch Warriors will remember a tribute that Mr. Gillcrest made about him during an assembly. I want to pay tribute to David Thorup Rowley.  I didn’t know him that well and only interacted with him at chess club at Wasatch.

I think about all that David missed out on being restricted to that awful wheelchair his whole life.  I never gave it much thought but, if I could go back in time with the power to make the impossible happen, I would want to exchange bodies for a week to let him live the life we so easily take for granted through mine.  Living in his body during that same week would have given me a taste of nothing I have ever experience in my entire life.  I’m sure my class brothers would be willing to do the same and it would have benefited us all for the rest of our lives.

David, you experienced ultimate healing when you left this Earth and now for eternity live on the way you should have been able to while here on this beautiful Earth.  I look forward to seeing you again when my time comes to join you and our other classmates.