I found out only yesterday about the death of Dr. Reid. I am deeply saddened.

Dr. Reid was my Ph.D. thesis adviser in the early nineteen seventies. He was demanding but fair. I owe him much as at one point I almost quit but he straightened me out. My life would have turned out differently if he did not take that kind of personal interest in his graduate students.

We shared many late, late nights waiting for the CDC printer connected to the Livermore Lab mainframes to spew out reams and reams of paper with the results of our calculation of the electric quadrupole moment of the deuteron. We talked about anything and everything, not only physics. And hen he talked about a book or movie it was often with intense passion. No way did you want to miss the movie or not read the book once you listened to Rod's "reviews".

About a year before his death he ran into a book describing a real life incident in the High Sierras. Remembering a chance encounter of literally a couple of decades ago, when he ran into me as I just returned from a hiking trip from the locales described in the book, he bought me the book and brought it to my house. That's the kind of person Rod was. I will miss him.

Michael L. Vaida, Ph.D.