Gaylord Chan, 1925–2020

I think Gaylord would have liked to be missed, but not mourned. It is not easy to think about him except in the most vivid present tense. Gaylord himself would surely complain in Hades if we relinquished thoughts of him to the past.

It has never been easy to pull wool over Gaylord’s eyes. He always saw through the polite facade of life. With Gaylord lying in his hospital bed, his family thought religion would ease his passage. I disagreed, whereupon Gaylord, muted by