Achievements of the Dwyer Years (continued)

It quotes from two of the messages received. The first, from Dr P. D. McTaggart-Cowan, Director of the Canadian Meteorological Service, includes the following "Len was one I admired very much as a man, as a meteorologist and as a director of a large meteorological service . . . He had an admirable degree of courage of his convictions, the forthrightness to state his views simply and directly and yet a sympathy and understanding of others . . . The WMO Executive Committee has lost one of its most effective leaders of thought and action".

The other quotation was from a letter written to the OIC of the Lae meteorological office by Mr Vai H. Gamu, an observer at Mendi in the Southern Highlands of what is now Papua New Guinea. It included "it is with regret that I hear the news of the death of Director of Meteorology, Mr L. J. Dwyer . . . as a weather observer I find it is necessary for me to send to his good wife and family my personal sympathy . . . Immediately after this news was received I called for my family of four for a simple short prayer in his honour".

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