Lucky Me! Griff and I 'found' each other on the internet. We were an early pairing of veterans of High Arctic weather stations on an internet site. Those Canadian stations were begun over a 4 year period, beginning in 1947. Griff was among the first crew -- all 8 of them that landed on sea ice at Alert on the north coast of Ellesmere Island in the Spring of 1950. Find Alert on an internet map!!
When Griff got south after a year at Alert and Isachsen, he soon became an instructor at weather schools in Toronto -- Toronto Island and on the Scarboro Bluffs. Many students passed through those training centres and Griff could still recall very many of them 50 years later.
Griff and I spent many hours and months finding -- and refining -- lists of personnel that served on those stations. He was so VERY good at that!
Linda and I will miss Griff. He was a wonderful guy!!
