I don’t know if you’re aware that your dad in the final and exhausting 24 hour days of our graduating year preparing our thesis project designs fell off his drafting table stool onto the floor causing a lot of commotion and an emergency visit to the hospital

He was subsequently diagnosed with Bells Palsy and the school administration fearing backlash from parents for overworking their children cancelled the deadline and asked everyone to submit their designs as they were .

Not only did your dad receive the award but also the eternal thanks of the eleven remaining exhausted graduating students ( that by this time had been reduced from the original 33 over the 4 years)

His condition either improved or he motored through the after graduation activities that included a fly in visit by his notorious Toronto Advertising friends who were serious party professionals and when we first met your mom

That fall Connie and I moved to Toronto where Connie and your mom were planning on going to Europe together and Craig introduced me to martinis after work at the bar called “21” at the Windsor Arms hotel .

We also spent some weekends in Minden where we met Nancy and Ross Jarvis etc

This is also the time that I met Ron Yuen who’s the only other friend of your dad’s I know because they moved to Vancouver shortly after.