From Steve Cook’s blog:
For about a week I’ve known that one of my beloved mentors from Yale Grad School, Brevard Childs has been critically ill in hospital in Connecticut, but he is a great and private man and I’ve been very reluctant to post on it. At this point Bard’s condition is ever more life threatening, and so I, and his other students and friends I’m sure, earnestly request your prayers. He collapsed about a week ago, the night before he and his wife Ann were were planning to leave for their summer place in Chautauqua. He has undergone at least two difficult surgeries and is now not conscious and in danger of renal failure. His family is with him, as I am in my prayers.
Childs was one of my professors as well, and I would like to join Steve is requesting prayers for not only one of the great scholars of our day but also for one of the most gentle men I have ever known.