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Dear Dick,
Very best wishes for your 80th birthday.
Have a sparkling day!
I am reminded of happy times with you in the High Voltage laboratory in High School Yards by this photograph of "the machine" sparking away as we made it do in order to impress and entertain visitors. (Also, as it would do spontaneously when we wanted it to run usefully!) You were very tolerant during the time I made a lot of mess in
the lab. building a loudspeaker enclosure which seemed to need sandpapering, with associated dust, for a remarkably long time! Happy times during which I learned much from you about critical interpretation of experimental data and clear thinking about physics in general for which I have ever since been grateful. I recall also, that I followed in your footsteps into the teaching of Musical Acoustics and later into the "Physics/Mathematics Building" steering committee, both of which were fun in different ways, aided greatly by your help in settling in to the tasks.
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Mention of acoustics, reminds me that we first met in the summer term of my first year (1952) when you lectured on "Sound and Light", if it is fair to say "met" when I was an anonymous part of the class! Certainly we did meet in your honours optics lab. in the basement of the old building in Drummond Street, where the many fascinating experiments were a pleasant change from balancing every kind of bridge ever devised, in the electrical laboratory upstairs.
Enough! Returning to the real purpose, Edna joins me in sending you our greetings on your birthday with all best wishes,
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Bob Galloway
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