As I remember it, the Facilities folks were so upset about someone painting stuff on Their Water Tower that a complaint went to Vic Vyssotsky, then Executive Director of Division 112 (one step up from Sandy Fraser, who was Director of 1127). The story was that Vic and/or Sandy told them that there were 60 people in the research centre and no way to tell who did it. Word was then quietly passed to certain people--Vic and Sandy in fact knew exactly who--that things were getting out of hand, please lay off the Peter-face pranking for a while. I tried to start a rumour that Vic did the painting, but it never took off. I hope Vic at least heard it. He'd have enjoyed the rumour, surely laughed at the prank while knowing he'd have to calm things down, and 20 years earlier might well have been involved in something like that. It was Vic who, on learning I was a cyclist, urged me to try cycling on the newly-constructed but not yet open segment of interstate highway that ran behind the Labs. He apparently had done so and found it lots of fun. Alas, I never did. Norman Wilson Toronto ON

On Mar 11, 2021, at 6:35 PM, Norman Wilson <norman(a)oclsc.org> wrote: please lay off the Peter-face pranking for a while.