[This sender failed our fraud detection checks and may not be who they appear to be. Learn about spoofing at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSpoofing] Fred was a great guy and I liked him. His love of language was manifest in his writing as well as in his oral communication. It was from his papers that I learned the words “behoove” and “antepenultimate”. In one paper he explained, in a precise and understandable way, the theory of triples (aka monads), their algebras and how they relate to adjoints, … all in a single sentence! I first met him when I was a graduate student at McGill in 1968. He was sleeping on the couch in the lounge with a sign on his chest saying “Wake me at 2:30”. Someone asked, “Who’s this?”. The reply: “The colloquium speaker.” He spoke (at 2:35) on enriched theories and algebras. One thing he said has stuck with me. The base category was a non-symmetric monoidal category and the algebras were contravariant functors into it (if my memory serves me correctly). He said there may come a time when we have to consider covariant functors as contravariant ones on the opposite category. He was a true original and a great loss to our community. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]