Towards the end of January 2003 our son Hillary said to Dick "You have a significant birthday coming up don't you. How would you like to celebrate it?"
"Quietly!"

So Hillary and I put our heads together.

Result -
when Hillary brought his family down to Dunbar on 2nd March, he presented Dick with a large loose-leaf folder full of messages from former colleagues and students - greetings, reminiscences, pictures, jokes.
It was wonderful.
Various other typescripts and reprints were included. Hillary had recently weeded these out of the mountain of junk left in a corner of the James Clerk Maxwell building when Dick retired in 1990.

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Since this 'book' was first published to the web in 2003, I have added further notes sent to me by the contributors, along with comments, images and links to other websites.
Sadly, Bill Cochran died in August 2003. Peter Farago followed on the last day of 2004. Dick himself died in April 2005 and Alastair Rae followed a few months later. Most recently we said farewell to Harry Napier who died on the last day of 2005, and to Hugh Montgomery on Easter Sunday 2008. I feel most privileged to have known them all, and have added further notes to their pages here as a small tribute to their memory.