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  Tributes to Dick Sillitto on his 80th Birthday,
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Links 17: from Harry Napier

 
Subject:    reRMS80TH
Date:        Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:02:46 -0000
From:      "harry napier"
To:           " sillitto"


WHAT REMAINS AFTER 50 YEARS IN PHYSICS

I STILL REMEMBER DICK'S JOKE ABOUT THE MAGICIAN AND THE PARROT ON THE TROOPSHIP WW2.

TORPEDOED BY SUBMARINE THE BEDRAGGLED PARROT ON SPAR OF WOOD SAYING CLEVER CLEVER BUT BLOODY STUPID
HIGHEST REGARDS H....
"After 49 years Harry Napier retires!" The day Harry retired, he was taken to lunch in the Braid Hills Hotel by Bob Galloway, David Vass, Dick Sillitto and their wives.

Harry, Dick, Winifred, Isobel, Bob, David Snapped by Edna.
Click picture for Bob's view

Harry, inimitable teller of 'shaggy dog stories', died on 31st December, 2005. The Galloways, David Vass, George and Barbara Bradford and I were at his funeral, as were many of the department's technical staff -- Colin Thompson, Peter Tuffy, Greg, Gordon, among those I recognised -- but most of the large gathering were friends dating from Harry's schooldays at Boroughmuir, his time in the Scout movement, and his involvement with training for First Aid. They were all convinced that THE LAB was the love of his life. And that he was one of the kindest men you could find.
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