WHEN WE LOST Charles in April of 2020, we lost a dear friend, a fine aviator, a skilled lawyer, but most of all, we lost a gentle man. No one ever had a discussion with Charles without thinking that Charles viewed you, and not himself, as the center of his universe. I first met Charles when I was a student at SMU School of Law. In 1990, I was serving on the Journal of Air Law and Commerce (JALC) staff and was working at my first SMU Air Law Symposium. Charles, the Symposium Chairman, heard that I was flying for Delta Air Lines while attending law school (Charles was then flying for Pan Am), and we soon began swapping war stories, fact and fiction, of our Air Force and airline careers. I quickly learned that Charles was a master of the King's English and well-practiced in the art of eloquent conversation. I always walked away from our conversations with a smile on my face.
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