It is difficult for me to think about who I was just over the decades ago as the son of two PhD college proffessors and just out of SMU I found myself in the West Dallas Yard. I was working with Bob V on a daily basis, and it didn't take long for us to become fast friends. I learned how amazingly smart he was quickly recognized his problem solving capacity to be greater than that of those PhD's that raised me. He and Shirley accepted me for who I was, and it was if I had become a part of their family ... and then I did. I met and married Debbie and now Bob and Shirley were in-laws. We had married when we were both just out of bad marriages and did it too quickly, and when it didn't work out they were still ther for both of us. Years later Debbie and I were still good friends thanks to the kind of people that Bob and Shirley are. I cannot say thanks enough to them for they way they accepted and encouraged me. Our paths took us in different directions, but the importance of Bob's place in my life, in my heaert, could never be altered. I know that on the other side, when he meets his maker, he will hear "Well done my good and faithful servant".