Robin clements beth gutcheon biography
Robin Clements, headmaster of a California school and single father of two....
by Beth Gutcheon
Wm.He is survived by his wife, Rosamound Fitch Richardson, and his children, Anne Johnson, Frank E. III '62, Thomas '64, Beth Gutcheon Clements.
Morrow, N.Y. 2008
$24.95 241 pages
Beth Gutcheon is known to Ann and me as Beth Clements. She and her husband Robin were members of Trinity Church, San Francisco, the last years before they moved to New York. We have remained good friends in spite of their failure to remain in San Francisco.
Beth’s humor is best described as the gentle put down.
Guild Nights are small literary events held in intimate settings at private homes featuring one of today's most celebrated authors as the guest of honor.
I once said I was going to add some explicit details of my sex life in my memoir. She replied in her very Beth way, “I think not, Robert.”
When she told me she was putting a an Episcopal priest as an important character in her new book, she said, “No Robert, it’s not about you.” She knows my fragile ego needs lots of stroking but she was not going to do it in her new novel.
She did consult with Robert Willing, the retired Archdeacon of the Diocese of New York, and me.
She was kind enough to include us in her list of acknowledgements, p. 442 to be exact. We described some of the processes and procedu