Victor Emerson
(send requests for contact information to wchs66@qsdmbb.com)
is alive and, as of 20 March, still shovelling snow in Ottawa, Canada.
Victor Reports
I was born in Ottawa and must have done something wrong in a previous life, since I spent much of my youth shovelling snow in Williamsville
and have been doing the same in Ottawa for the past 22 years.
In between, I spent 5 years at McGill University in Montreal doing a 4-year degree (don't ask), then did a Ph.D. in Experimental
Psychology (Queen's Univ., Kingston) and a post-doc in Neurophysiology and Animal Behaviour at Cambridge.
I arrived in the UK the week the Sex Pistols appeared on TV and left shortly after Maggie became PM, and
enjoyed a musical renaissance almost equivalent to Beatlemania.
In the 1980s I held a job in User Needs Assessment at a high-tech company in Ottawa, then left to start my own company (Acuity Research Group Inc.) and worked at home while my 3 boys were growing up. I'm still working for myself and enjoying it, and in my spare time I'm a photographer and songwriter. Over the past two Christmas seasons, my Christmas song "Half a World Away", written for Canadian Forces personnel and their families, has been broadcast to all deployed Canadian troops. The royalties from this will enable me to treat one classmate to a cup of coffee.
In December 1965, Josh Sanes inducted me into the International Association of Turtles. I still have my Turtles card, with the 4 questions that must be answered correctly (by those with a clean mind). And yes, I also still have my draft card.
