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David O`Meara R.I.P.
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:31 pm
by Mrs C.
Those of you who knew him will be sad to hear that David passed away on Saturday evening, after only a few months of well - earned retirement.
Service at Worth Crematorium on !3th April, 12 noon, I believe
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:34 pm
by swirl
i think he died of a brain hemmorage (can't spell) as that is what he was admitted to hospital for, i think
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:34 pm
by Mrs C.
Correct
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:02 pm
by Vonny
Did he teach maths in the 80's?
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:28 pm
by swirl
yeah, right up to 2005
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:36 pm
by Vonny
I thought it was him. He only taught me for a term or so once a week so didn't know him as well as some of the other teachers.
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:37 pm
by Mid A 15
Vonny wrote:Did he teach maths in the 80's?
He also taught in the sixties and seventies.
Sad news.
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:39 pm
by Vonny
Mid A 15 wrote:Vonny wrote:Did he teach maths in the 80's?
He also taught in the sixties and seventies.
Sad news.
I didn't realise he had been there that long. I have him to thank for passing my maths O Level - a miracle in itself
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:43 am
by Hendrik
he also had brass shrapnel pieces lodged in his head from where a cadet had a neglegent discharge with a rifle (blank cartridges spit out tiny fragments of brass at super sonic speed)
sure this didn't help.
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:51 am
by Great Plum
Sad news indeed.
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:28 am
by Rory
I must be getting really old cos all my teachers are dying...
Sad news indeed - Dolly O Meara was a brilliant mathematician...
unfortunately that meant that I couldn't keep up with him - and as a result I only scraped a C in O level.
Didn't stop me working in finance tho.....
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:20 pm
by jtaylor
A cracking teacher, who inspired an interest in engineering.
Taught me for Maths-mechanics at A-Level, and we spent so much time talking about what seemed like non-maths, but that helped me so much later in life - an ability to analyse and get to the root of a problem.
I particularly loved his theories on the people who lived in 2 dimensions, living in "flat-land", along with his theories on traffic cones - most ingenious!
I believe he built his own computer from scratch - i.e. his own circuits etc - in the early 80s?
A sad loss....
J
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:44 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
Very sad loss.
Feel I have to say that I didn't get on with him as a teacher, a bright man but I only got Es in Mechanics at A-level despite As and Bs in Pure and Stats.
He had an excellent view on the National Lottery when it first started - wanted to broadcast to the world (and his maths sets) how rotten the odds were!
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:56 pm
by sport!
Sad news.......I think I have a Lamb B house photo featuring D O'M....I'll post soon.
Rory wrote:Didn't stop me working in finance tho.....
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:57 pm
by swirl
sit.....down....now lol