As — I know from his emails to me—Derek Blackman, the first external examiner for Psychology at NUS, John’s death is a grave shock. So many realise the size of John’s contribution to psychology in S’pore. I can add my debt to him from the time he decided to become my first potentially long term colleague in the then Social Work Department. He was a stalwart! I didn’t much know John when he and I were at Sheffield, a superb psychology department. By 1989 when I left NUS I understood how solidly reliable and unwaveringly loyal John was. He had a mind I found congenial to spar with or learn from— so did most students he taught. He told me about orchids; we compared our National Service experiences, we each reckoned Richard Gregory a psychologist head and shoulders above virtually all other British ones and more fun, too. John’s gone. The good he did remains.