Along with many important life lessons, Warren taught me to write. As a young engineer working for him in the 80's he would take my drafts of correspondence and position papers, printed out double-spaced, and attack them with his dreaded red pencil. For the first year there was more red pencil than printout. The sound of him cranking that damn pencil sharpener back in his office was disheartening. But over the two following years, the red circles, scribbles, and cross-outs steadily declined until finally he came out of his office one day, unblemished printout in hand, and told me "hey, I think you're done" with that chess master smile of his. Of course he had never told me this was his goal. One of the proudest moments in my career.

Thanks Warren, I think of you often.

Dan Everest (worked for Warren '84-'92)