Gentleman Con was a man you could trust

BEFORE getting into any nitty-gritty, a few words of acknowledgement.

Over the past several years, since assuming this position, I had the pleasure and the privilege of meeting the late Con Murphy on a number of occasions.

I won’t claim that I got to know him, because I didn’t, but I do have an instinct for people and Con Murphy struck me as one of nature’s finest. A gentleman, an honest man, a true man, the kind of guy who looked you in the eye when he spoke, who took your hand in a firm grip, who told it like it was. You could believe him, you could trust him. I wouldn’t always have held with his opinions, would very often have held very strong opinions to the contrary, but I respected the man absolutely.