Claire is having a *surprise* ringers' zoom for Geoff's 80th birthday and asked Ed et al. to pass the word. It's at 12:30 EST. Sorry to everybody getting a duplicate; it took me a while to realize that sending it to the list wouldn’t spoil the surprise.

Best,

Cally

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Claire Elizabeth Davies <clairedavies526@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Feb 5, 2022, 12:45 PM
Subject: Facebook event link (with Zoom link) to wish Geoffrey a happy 80th
To: Ed Futcher <edfutcher@gmail.com>, Richard Dirksen <rdirksen@roadrunner.com>, <chas.webb@talktalk.net>, <chrissherr@icloud.com>, Joan Hutchinson <hutchinson@macalester.edu>
Cc: ELIZABETH DAVIES <elizabethdavies2@comcast.net>

Hello there,

This is Claire, daughter of Geoffrey Davies. As you may or may not know, my dad turns 80 tomorrow, Sunday February 6. I created a Facebook event for a quick Zoom meeting tomorrow, Sunday February 6 at 12:30pm EST (so 5:30pm for UK) for any ringers who want to wish my dad a happy birthday.

Feel free to forward this to any ringers who you think might be interested:

https://fb.me/e/1q97RhL8V

Here is the direct link to the Zoom:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2315776015?pwd=cDM5TWkvM21BbzhPOUFIbjY0ZzYrQT09

We are taking him out for a family dinner tonight and we plan to have a Zoom earlier tomorrow with family from the UK - so this "ringers only" Zoom will be a surprise!

Thank you,

Claire

________________________

Claire Davies, LCSW
LinkedIn

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 11:26 AM PHIL GAY <phil.gay@btinternet.com> wrote:

Thank you both for your help.

I think Feb 6th is close enough to Jan 13th to have footnotes for that peal and quarter

best wishes,

Phil

------ Original Message ------
From: "Cally Perry" <cally.perry@gmail.com>
To: "PHIL GAY" <phil.gay@btinternet.com>
Cc: "Don Morrison" <dfm@ringing.org>
Sent: Friday, 17 Dec, 21 At 15:59
Subject: Re: Help!

He will be thrilled! His efforts to get ringing restarted in Boston in the seventies included fundraising as well teaching many people to ring from scratch. I doubt we would be ringing at all without him.

I heard back from Claire; His birthday is 6 February.

Good luck with your endeavors!

Best regards,
Cally
+1 508-369-4171

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 3:30 AM PHIL GAY <phil.gay@btinternet.com> wrote:

Hello both,

thanks for swift replies.

Geoff wrote to me a couple of months ago, and his letter heading included claire's email address, which I guessed was his daughter but wasn't sure. A slightly worrying letter, not obvious what state he was in.

In January 1962 he called a peal at Keele which was Michael Wilshaw's first peal, the second peal for me and Ray Ballard, and the fourth for David Danby, all of whom are still ringing . The other member of the band was Charles Webb, also still ringing but mostly on handbells. We are hoping to ring a peal and quarter, with appropriate contemporaries to help, to mark the anniversary. Geoff did a great deal in the early sixties to help other youngsters get their peal ringing going.

best wishes,

Phil

------ Original Message ------
From: "Don Morrison" <dfm@ringing.org>
To: "Cally Perry" <cally@mail.com>
Cc: "PHIL GAY" <phil.gay@btinternet.com>
Sent: Friday, 17 Dec, 21 At 06:38
Subject: Re: Help!

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 1:31 AM Cally Perry <cally.perry@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll ask Claire, his daughter.

So much for "sometimes flaky" — thanks for the near instantaneous
reply, and the help!

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Don Morrison <dfm@ringing.org>
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happen to teach stuff, not educational institutions that happen to
have a gym.” – Bret Stephens, the /New York Times/, 18 June 2019