I was friends with Toon since 1958, and got to know him when as young teachers at St Andrews' College, we took parties of school kids on outings, and when five or six teachers used to go camping, usually at a beach. We also played tennis together. When he came to Edinburgh for his medical studies we lost contact. When I moved to Edinburgh in 1999, 40 years later, I saw a poster on the window of some person living on Warrender Park Road, casting aspersions at Dr André Phanjoo. So I knew that he was living here, and we were able to re-establish contact. Your description of him fits my impressions of him exactly, you sized him up perfectly according to me, his warmth, his sense of humour, his calm serenity _ I never witnessed that side of him you mention, about him losing his rag. When we went out together in our youths, having been a scholar of French classics_ he won the English Scholarship after, I believe, scoring A* in French, English and Latin_he used to amuse us by citing huge chunks of Molière which he knew by heart, more specifical.

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