I have known and admired John for at least 15 years—since we served together on the Board of Directors of the Northeastern Section of the AUA (NSAUA). His placid, always-in-control, and understated demeanor was apparent then and has never changed. The original SARS viral epidemic was “hitting” Ontario then and we were having the board meeting in Toronto. His calmness in the face of what every Canadian (over half of the board) feared was very reassuring and comforting to us from south of the border, who knew nothing about it. We’ve had him as a visiting professor at The University of Rochester and that same calmness was always apparent.

Flash forward to his last 3 years as Secretary: not only traveling all over the world but trying to run 2 annual meetings virtually (one of which had to be converted from live to virtual in less than 2 weeks because of a COVID surge) and running the first “primarily” live meeting in 3 years while often being abroad have been enormous feats. Putting these together with him greatly expanding and updating AUANews makes him a superman in my eyes. I very much look forward to working with him on/at the Chicago meeting, which I’m to preside over. As always, he will have it organized and the rest of us will just have to show up.

John, thanks so much.