A loss close to home
As the Harvard community regrouped the day after the Boston Marathon bombings — accounting, in a flurry of phone calls and text messages, for faculty, staff, and students who had headed out Monday morning as runners, volunteers, and spectators — the worst news of the attack seemed to be over. But on Tuesday afternoon, as authorities released more information about the victims of the two explosions in Copley Square, a Harvard family — and the University community — received word that everyone on campus had hoped not to hear. Krystle Campbell, 29, the daughter of longtime Harvard Business School (HBS) Restaurant Associates employee Patty Campbell and sister of Cabot House dining services staffer Billy Campbell, was confirmed as one of three dead in the attack. Krystle Campbell herself had worked for HBS Restaurant Associates, where her mother has been on staff for 30 years, while attending college several years ago. According to...