Simon Gaskell- "Greetings from a Poor Correspondent"

Dear Phil,

I owe you multiple apologies for failing to respond sooner to your e-mails concerning the Class Reunion. I’ve been trying to work out whether it is feasible to attend – and it may well be so. It would be great to catch up. I am due to be in Denver for a conference that week, but if I skip the end of the conference I could be in Santa Barbara on the Thursday. It’s going to be difficult to miss commitments already made for the following Monday so I may have to take an overnight flight back to the UK on Saturday night, therefore missing (without too much reluctance!) the softball game and (with great reluctance) the dinner at Don’s place on Saturday and breakfast at Billy’s place on Sunday. I’ll confirm all this once I’ve checked schedules.

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Second Email- in response to pdi’s encouragement that Simon stay longer if possible….

Dear Phil,

By all means add my e-mail to the blog. I’ll see what I can do to escape commitments!

Best wishes, Simon
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As you will see from my address below, I keep myself occupied as a VP at the University of Manchester. My wife (a child psychologist) and I have two “kids” – a daughter (29) who is a lawyer and a son (27) who is an architect, both living in London – so the dinner table conversation is varied on the, increasingly rare, occasions when the family is together.
I’ve enjoyed your e-mails and the accompanying photographs and I look forward to re-establishing old friendships. I’ll be in touch to confirm.

Best wishes,

Simon


Professor Simon J Gaskell
Vice President (Research)
Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry
University of Manchester
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre
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