Recollecting Courtney Gibson

Courtney Gibson

It surprised me considerably that the turnout at the St. Sidwell’s Anglican Church Memorial Service for the late Courtney Gibson included few of his contemporaries; I wondered whether it was that news of the event might not have reached them up to that time; but then it occurred to me that we live in a society where word gets around and once I got to thinking that there was probably no good reason why news of the event did not get around the circuit of Courtney’s contemporaries, I begun to reflect on times past and how different it was ‘in those days.’

News of Courtney’s death had reached me via Bert Wilkinson. Bert is probably the youngest of that generation of journalists who now call themselves the ‘old hands.’ During the period between the death and the Memorial Service, Bert also kept me in the loop. He has a talent for such things. The last time I