Dear Editor,
My good friend Vic Insanally will be bestowed with an honorary degree, a doctorate, from the University of Guyana later on this week.
Vic can launch a thousand books with the euphony of his voice as for example the Guyana Annual magazine with which we were mutually connected.
I heard him first as a radio announcer back in my youth in the nineteen sixties and his commentaries on the motor races brought the action at the South Dakota circuit straight to my home at Palmyra in Berbice.
I met him first in person in nineteen ninety seven when he was master of ceremonies at a reception hosted by Attorney General, Bernard De Santos, at the Umana Yana in Georgetown in honour of myself and my guest Bobby Burns the mayor of our hometown of Midland, Texas.
The legal, medical and political fraternities made a massive showing that evening with Vic guiding the festivities and afterwards he offered to help me with the planning and logistics of any future projects I had in mind.
That was a huge mistake he undertook as I have called on him more times than I am sure he reasonably expected, every one of them decidedly pro gratis including the abundant use of his time.
Deepest gratitude and commendations to Vic for dozens of ideas and suggestions about worthwhile projects and some gratifying completions plus some advice about troubled roads and warnings about wily operators.
Congratulations, my dear friend Vic you have earned the dignity of a doctorate many times over, in my estimation; and accolades to the University of Guyana for the wisdom of their choice.
Yours faithfully,
Tulsi Dyal Singh, MD
Midland, Texas, USA.
