Robin Williams, the comic genius who died Monday of a suspected suicide at age 63, spoke fondly of his days a Detroit Country Day School in Birmingham.
One thing, though, he wasn't the class clown as you might have expected, according to a story in the Detroit Free Press by Julie Hinds.
“No, no, I was president of the class,” said Williams, an alumnus of Birmingham Detroit Country Day, told the Detroit Free Press almost 20 years ago. “I loved school, maybe too much really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.”
Folks around the world had fond things to say about him including people with local ties.
“He was absolutely one of the great comedic geniuses of all time,” said Mark Ridley, owner of Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle in Royal Oak, according to the Freep article. “With genius comes certain burdens you have to carry, and Robin Williams certainly carried something deeper than anyone ever knew.”
“So sad so very sad about Robin,” tweeted Tim Allen, another big-name comic with Detroit roots. “My head and heart extend to his family.”
Our condolences to the family of Robin Williams. We are saddened to hear about the loss of our former student. #robinwilliams #dcdsalumni
— Detroit Country Day (@DCDSNews) August 12, 2014
