C.O's kindness crops up 30 years later
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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Soon after taking up a teaching appointment (in 1960) with the British Families Education Service in Guetersloh, Germany I had the sad news of my father's death in a road accident near Swansea. My new school was situated within a R.A.F. base whose Commanding Officer was a Wing Commander Jack P. Jack not only arranged a speedy compassionate flight for me back to the UK but continued to be concerned about my wife (pregnant with our daughter Alison) and mother who were seriously injured in the accident. Jack's son Richard was then a medical student and frequently visited his parents during his vacations, though I was unaware of this. More than 30 years later my daughter Alison and her husband moved into a house in Sheffield. Jack's son, Dr Richard P was their next door neighbour
Date submitted:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:07:05 +0000Coincidence ID:5433
