A friend has left

JD was 4 years older than I, and that makes him 56. I met him in the Boy Scouts when I joined in 1964. His dad was the Optomotrist in the local area, and of course we all were families of St Paul Parish.

His claim to fame was that he was the James Dorherty in Dorherty -v- SCO, a landmark disability rights case. He lost his case. In his case a requirement could be added to a program to demonstrate a skill. When he was tested by demonstration and failed, he had completed 4 years of work at Southern College of Optometry, and failing to demonstrate a skill caused him -at the end of his program- to fail.

I will miss him. He was a good friend.