On the afternoon preceding the start of the '40 Years On' school reunion in Wellington, Elizabeth and I called on Graham's parents at Island Bay. Frank Joplin's greeting was: “Ha, the Pommie!”; but Mrs. Joplin brought tea and scones. We came not to catch up on his news like Colin Fenton (q.v.) but to bring news of Graham and Helen - who had dined with us shortly before we left for NZ. Graham had told me then of a procedure he had developed for operating on tumours in the front of the brain, entering the skull cavity through the nasal passage. He had taught the technique to surgeons around the world: I recall him talking of Egypt. He mentioned his keenness for DIY, but added that the exquisite tactile sense this operation required inhibited him from using any tool (like a circular saw) that might endanger his fingertips.
(These memories were among those compiled in 1998 for a book of “Memories of Form 4A 1941, Wellington College)