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I also had the pleasure of hearing George Garratty lecture a few times over the years. I mentioned a while ago in another thread that the golden age of exploration in our field is over. Many of the older workers (like myself) have been fortunate enough over the years to hear and meet some of the giants who shaped that discipline. The profession, and the world, is a poorer place for their passing.

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I have never met George Garratty but I have read enough posts here and have seen his articles referenced enough to know the loss. I have co-workers who have been fortunate enough to attend his lectures and they also express their sympathy and know the loss. The information gathered will hopefully be built upon by predecessors in order to continue the discovery in our field, Immunohematology.

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I just read the obituary, a fitting tribute indeed. I remember way, way back, George being involved in a sort of regional wet exercise (maybe put together by Pzifer, our reagent supplier at the time?). We were sent samples that turned out to react with all reagent cells. Some of us may have noticed a positive DAT. Participants met somewhere near Boston. No one had much of a clue as to what was going on or how to proceed. It turned out to be a warm auto panagglutinin with anti-K lurking underneath, and George went on the explain about the serology and showed us how to do autoadsorptions. Background knowledge about the serology and the technology and techniques is commonplace nowadays, but not then. Skill as an educator was one of his considerable array of talents, and I was fortunate enough to be a beneficiary. Eventually I was making ZZAP, then using the Immucor product WARM, and now PeG, but he started me, and many others, down the road. 

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