Preparing a stir fry for last Sunday's lunch is when I received Marta's message saying we had lost Fred. I realized that our family was introduced to this wonderful style of cooking by Fred Linton in his big New Haven house. I was on sabbatical 1976-7 at Wesleyan University in Middletown (CT) to work with Fred. The year was a hard one for Fred but he was a great host. We rented a nice University-owned house in Middletown, with bushy slope one side and a disused car park the other, so our two boys could toboggan or ride their tag-sale-acquired tricycle, according to season. Our older boy started school that year. Fred had found a microscope at a tag sale which is a gift my boys often talk about. He also found books, fruits, vegies and other things he rightly thought would interest us. One day he took me to a liquor store in New Haven where he knew they had Australian beer. They had \Huge{cans} of Fosters. The shopkeeper, not knowing at first my nationality, told me that, in Australia, they bought these by the 6 pack and got through many of them at their barbies! Fosters was a Melbourne company, uncommon in Sydney in those days; I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I may have met Fred in November 1968 at a MidWest Category Seminar in Urbana, Illinois; there were so many of the category theorists who had just been names on papers to me before that. However, we certainly met at the Summer of '69 Bowdoin College, Maine, gathering. Fred gave a series of lectures on enriching the theory of triples (monads), especially over bases that were either closed or monoidal but not necessarily both. I had been thinking about the closed monoidal case over the previous year so it was great to find a mind who also found it worth doing that even more generally. The MR review Fred wrote of my ``formal theory of monads'' paper was noticed (before me I think) by our Head (Fred Chong) at the time. This was responsible in large part for my application for a full year's sabbatical at Middletown being smiled upon. Yes, Fred had a way with words! We category theorists have enjoyed Fred's company and discussions in many meetings around the world. We all will miss his valuable contributions. Ross [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]