Letter: Not that much in a name

Editorial Page Editor Jeff Lytle’s comments regarding the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Collier to Eckerd College should go down as “the cheap shot of the week.”

Eckerd College is a private liberal arts school and not the St. Petersburg public school system.

The article in your paper regarding the gift stated it was a challenge gift directed toward specific needs of the college.

For you to suggest that Miles Collier and his wife should have some obligation to eliminate illiteracy in Collier County just because their name is Collier is off base.

As the editorial page editor I think you can better serve your readers. Generous people should be encouraged to be generous without cheap shots from editors like you.

Robert W. Navarre/Naples

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