Old friend retiring

I remembered this picture from ten years ago today, when I found out
the man seated here, Shannon Ryan, died yesterday. Here, in April
2006, we were celebrating his retirement after 30-odd years university
teaching. In fact, he figured he taught for fifty years as he had
started his first job as schoolteacher at age 15. He was a good
teacher, and researcher, and writer, and historian. When he died he
was 75 years old.

This was on Reala film, shot in my Spotmatic with its beautiful f/1.4
lens. The scan suffered badly and I dolled it up somewhat today
(vignetting rather heavily) before posting it on social media for
Shannon's other friends and admirers. The two women, co-workers of
both Shannon and me, have since retired too. The young man (taught by
Shannon in the early 1980s) is a successful lawyer.