Dear Andrew,
What a pleasure to hear from you! It's a bit of an honour to be still remembered. It's a long shot but I will give serious consideration to organising my way to come back to Australia for a few weeks around 17th Sept. Though I am over 80 now, I am still pretty fit. It would be great to renew memories and meet you young fellows, no longer quite so young.
I enjoyed reading the NUZ magazine in your email. I feel a couple of times you all were very gentle with me but the long haired padre smoking a pipe was not me. It could have been my immediate predecessor, though I am pretty sure it was none of my assistant chaplains during my 27 years tenure. I don't smoke- which probably accounts for my being still alive!
It would give me a chance to visit my two sons, Paul and David, (both Old Boys), my brothers, and Harry Nicholson and Noella Bishop. Though I am still working as a hospice chaplain, and part time for Food for the Poor, my Cranbrook experience was a very precious, and I hope meaningful, period of my life. My study wall is full of Old Cranbrookian momentos, staff, theatre, football, so I have a glimpse of the old days every day.
I hope you are well and still doing good. Love to John North, et all.
God bless,
Ft. Barry
