GILLESPIE, Derren Clarke

27.5.50 - 1.6.23

-- scholar, satirist, confidante, comrade

-- Brighton H.S. English luminary

-- lunchtime disseminator of 'great russian short stories' and Finnegan's

Wake excerpts

-- Cream, Ravi Shankar, Pier Paolo Pasolini Adelaide Uni

-- oratory to BHS may 68 advocating support for Prosh Day charities

-- Co traveller to Coolgardie, Perth and WA nickel province 69-70 with

Gogol, Chekhov and Flaubert

-- Activist anti apartheid protest Norwood 6.71

-- arms linked at front of Vietnam Moratorium march 6.71 Adelaide

-- moderator at our friday night repechage while tutor to orphans at

Walkerville Boys Home 1971

-- Chronicler of critiques of the times from Mt Isa Mines 71-72

-- Facilitator of humour and revelry in the Fiat 600D

-- the Procurer of Russian Sobranies and Dewars scotch and forever the

creator and flaunter of the 'S-hot Tissot'

Top marks D.G.

So long old chum

Charlie, Berin and Bruce