Beacons of Light is a collection of essays written by Scott Adam Margolin during his freshman year at Middlebury College. Tragically, Scott was killed in a car accident at the end of the year. Scott was a gifted young writer and we are fortunate that he has left behind the legacy of these stories ... albeit too few. Scott's flair for story-telling shows us that he was a young man who had an insightful way of looking at the world and a real passion for living life to the fullest. We will miss Scott, but are brought closer to him through the view into his life these stories provide. To paraphrase Scott's mother, Maureen, in a quote taken from the story Loretta, we hope these stories will inspire you to "become beacons of light, and they will have an effect on you and that you will spread the word to others and that they will pass it on. In doing so, I feel that I have done some sort of good for the world ... and it makes me feel good too."
Susan Mindell Blum October 1996
Special thanks to Estelle Siegel and Deborah Williamson for their help in preparing this collection
Journal: My Freshman Year In College is a collection of journal entries written by Scott Margolin while he was at Middlebury College. They were published in Coming of Age: Literature About Youth and Adolescence Vol. II, in 1999.