Obituary
Colin Humphreys played a major
part in the production of this programme until his untimely death on 5th
July 2002, at the age of fifty-five.
Colin was introduced to the
Old Ys by Andy Dunn in 1970. One of the intellectual front row forwards he
delighted in tradition and those little special occasions such as the taking
of wine by fellow front row combatants. He could always be persuaded to sing
although he only knew two songs, a lusty rendering of The Old Pacific Sea
and the Alphabet Song. His nickname Nectar apparently came from an
occasion when he was quaffing Scottish and Newcastles Exhibition Ale which he
describes as nectar. An enforced retirement from playing led to an interest
in administration, joining the committees of firstly Greater Birmingham and
then North Midlands where he took on the difficult task of dispensing justice
as Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee.
Colin was an enthusiastic
shareholder in the Severn Valley Railway Company and also Chairman of the Old
Ys Thomas the Tank Engine Club.
We shall miss
Nectar.