bout de papier, Volume 14, Issue No. 2, 1997
bout de papier, Volume 15, Issue No. 1, 1998
Team Canada — The Bottom Line

by Mark Drake
John Lawrence Paynter, 1941-1995

The following was prepared for the Memorial Service held for John Paynter at the Asia Centre (University of British Columbia) in November 1995.
The Great Totem Pole Caper

Was it Murphy who said that anything that can go wrong will go wrong? If so, when he formulated his law, he must have had in mind what I will call the great “totem pole caper.” We, in the foreign service, are…