Sent by Irene A. Agyepong on 17/05/2015

The Picture. Prof. Laing, I liked, respected and admired you so much. And I do not think I am going to easily forget your very warm, human and humbly fatherly approach to everyone despite all you had achieved. Combining a demanding career with small children through the nineties and early two thousands it was not uncommon for me to have a baby in tow in School of Public Health programs as in the district. And you always stopped to say hello and ask how they were, ask about my father and send him greetings. I do not remember when I saw you without your camera. And I learned the advantages of remaining childlike despite the wisdom and experience of age from observing the pure delight you took in your camera, in taking pictures and sharing them. I still remember your stopping to say hello to the baby and to me; with great courtesy and genuine warmth when I brought my last baby to a School of Public Health supervisor, faculty and student meetings at the Noguchi Conference Center in 2000. I still have the picture you took of us and gave to me. I could say more, but one story is enough; for I am sure there are many others who also need the space to tell their stories. I will miss you. Words seem so inadequate. Ghana was privileged to have had you pass through. Irene A. Agyepong