Graham Lashbrooke

There are many, many abiding memories concerning Keith, but a great one that stands out is when Humphrey and I employed him to help us start our Systems Analysis courses at WS&L Training.

Whilst there is nothing to say about the undoubted superb quality of the material he put together and the aplomb with which he delivered it, the stress that I had to go through as every course started will always be with me. Every quarter I would start with 20 hopefuls and carry out the course introduction after which I was to hand over to Keith. The problem was that Keith would always arrive at the absolutely last minute, right after I had padded out the introduction to the point of total student stupefaction.

Then in he would march with no apology armed with a huge pile of transparencies that he would sort during his lecture leaving out great swathes and adding many diagrams on the whiteboard. Whilst this may sound like a lecturing disaster, for Keith it was the way things were done and the material he delivered was well received by enthralled students.

Around about lunchtime on the first day I would start to relax in the knowledge that all would go well and that the students would finally go away from the course knowing that a most knowledgeable and fluent man had improved their knowledge.

Thanks Keith, I might have aged 10 years every course you gave but you helped to make WS&L Training the success it was.