When SooToday was in its infancy as a protohyperlocal news operation (according to a Google search, I was the first in lexicographic history to describe anything as ‘protohyperlocal’), I did a lot of quirky things. One was to publish every teacher obituary prominently on the home page. I did this after observing how it was quite impossible for a retired teacher to walk from one end of Station Mall to the other without being repeatedly and warmly greeted by former students. Wiser editors have discontinued this practice, but it was my way of paying tribute to some remarkable people.