Canadian alumni memories - the snooker 'aces'

I wasn’t involved in any London House clubs but enjoyed playing squash fairly regularly. Most importantly, there was a full-sized snooker table in a downstairs room in the southeast corner of London House, conveniently close to the bar. Snooker was just taking off in the UK, and I spent a horrifying amount of time crouched over the green baize with a number of rather poor snooker players – so much time, in fact, that snooker and beer cost a fellow Canadian his degree. Another Canadian snooker veteran, the very talented artist and pianist Robert Edwards from Edmonton, who now lives with his family near Pittsburgh, PA, became my best man, and I godfather to his eldest daughter. Rob was good enough to draw a caricature of the Canadian snooker contingent (see left) that enjoys pride of place in my study to this day.
Christopher Wilkie (LH 1980–1)
[Christopher Wilkie is at present Canadian Ambassador to Morocco.]