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A Personal Note From the Editor

A Personal Note From the Editor PERSONAL NOTE FROM THE EDITOR David York Mason—1941 to 2008. defiance of conventional ‘‘wisdom.’’ This characteristic, new questions, couched in novel terms, coupled with a The current issue of AIMM carries an article from the wry sense of humor, marked his scientific collaborations Leukemia Research Immunodiagnostics Unit in Oxford, for the whole of his increasingly distinguished career, titled ‘‘Labeling of Multiple Cell markers and mRNA eventually becoming Reader and then Professor of Using Automated Apparatus.’’ The paper is notable for Cellular Pathology at Oxford in the year 1997. its clear presentation and technical elegance and sadly as At play, we were registered coowners of a small one of the last papers to be coauthored by David York motorboat, christened the Sanderson Polster, in recogni- Mason, MD, who died in Oxford on February 2, 2008, tion of all of the histology that David would admit to from postsurgical complications. knowing. The Polster was moored on the Oxford canal at Life is a journey, unpredictable in its twists and the bottom of David’s wild and wooly garden. Voyages turns, with fortune along the way, both good and bad. on the Thames with David and our families were My good fortune was to be in Oxford in the Gibson accompanied by fantastic nautical yarns that resulted in Laboratories at the ‘‘old’’ John Radcliffe, as a Lecturer in my 2 young sons regarding David much in the way that Pathology, during the early 1970s, when David Mason Alice, in the same general location a century earlier, must held a comparable position in Hematology. We were have viewed another Oxford ‘‘teller of tales,’’ Charles young, enthusiastic, with unspent dreams and a burgeon- Lutwidge Dodgson. David became godfather to my third ing common interest, for Cellular Immunology was in its son, leaving an indelible stamp of adventure upon him also. heyday. Our laboratory had just published the first This is how I would like to remember David York immunoperoxidase studies on routine formalin fixed Mason, for his wonder at the world, his desire to reshape tissues, and David arrived with a magical bag full of it, his melding of science and the arts, his curiosity, and antibodies. In 2 years, we published half a dozen papers his wit. together, more than doubling the world’s literature in the His extensive scientific contributions speak for field, and David was just beginning to exercise his unusual themselves. intellect. I thought we were practicing science, he thought Clive R.Taylor, MA, MD, D Phil it was art; we agreed on artful science, as it were. I tried to Keck School of Medicine teach him histopathology, he taught me other things, University of Southern California among which was the value of thinking new thoughts, in Malibu, California Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol Volume 16, Number 4, July 2008 309 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology Wolters Kluwer Health

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1062-3345
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10.1097/PAI.0b013e318177323b
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PERSONAL NOTE FROM THE EDITOR David York Mason—1941 to 2008. defiance of conventional ‘‘wisdom.’’ This characteristic, new questions, couched in novel terms, coupled with a The current issue of AIMM carries an article from the wry sense of humor, marked his scientific collaborations Leukemia Research Immunodiagnostics Unit in Oxford, for the whole of his increasingly distinguished career, titled ‘‘Labeling of Multiple Cell markers and mRNA eventually becoming Reader and then Professor of Using Automated Apparatus.’’ The paper is notable for Cellular Pathology at Oxford in the year 1997. its clear presentation and technical elegance and sadly as At play, we were registered coowners of a small one of the last papers to be coauthored by David York motorboat, christened the Sanderson Polster, in recogni- Mason, MD, who died in Oxford on February 2, 2008, tion of all of the histology that David would admit to from postsurgical complications. knowing. The Polster was moored on the Oxford canal at Life is a journey, unpredictable in its twists and the bottom of David’s wild and wooly garden. Voyages turns, with fortune along the way, both good and bad. on the Thames with David and our families were My good fortune was to be in Oxford in the Gibson accompanied by fantastic nautical yarns that resulted in Laboratories at the ‘‘old’’ John Radcliffe, as a Lecturer in my 2 young sons regarding David much in the way that Pathology, during the early 1970s, when David Mason Alice, in the same general location a century earlier, must held a comparable position in Hematology. We were have viewed another Oxford ‘‘teller of tales,’’ Charles young, enthusiastic, with unspent dreams and a burgeon- Lutwidge Dodgson. David became godfather to my third ing common interest, for Cellular Immunology was in its son, leaving an indelible stamp of adventure upon him also. heyday. Our laboratory had just published the first This is how I would like to remember David York immunoperoxidase studies on routine formalin fixed Mason, for his wonder at the world, his desire to reshape tissues, and David arrived with a magical bag full of it, his melding of science and the arts, his curiosity, and antibodies. In 2 years, we published half a dozen papers his wit. together, more than doubling the world’s literature in the His extensive scientific contributions speak for field, and David was just beginning to exercise his unusual themselves. intellect. I thought we were practicing science, he thought Clive R.Taylor, MA, MD, D Phil it was art; we agreed on artful science, as it were. I tried to Keck School of Medicine teach him histopathology, he taught me other things, University of Southern California among which was the value of thinking new thoughts, in Malibu, California Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol Volume 16, Number 4, July 2008 309

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Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular MorphologyWolters Kluwer Health

Published: Jul 1, 2008

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