Professor David Kirk’s Contribution to My Life

Author:  Jack Champaigne | Editor | The Shot Peener
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
Doc ID:  2025008
Year of Publication:  2025
Abstract:  
Now that Professor Kirk has announced his retirement from contributing articles to The Shot Peener magazine, I am reminiscing about our long relationship. We all have special people in our lives that have made big differences. For me, Professor David Kirk is at the top of my list of special people. I remember meeting him the first time in 1993 at the 5th International Conference on Shot Peening (ICSP5) in Oxford. We stayed in dorm rooms on the Oxford campus—the students were on vacation. The rooms were quite large with very tall ceilings and the bathroom was down the hall. I got the feeling of being a student all over again. (I could now tell my friends that I attended Oxford.) The conference room was nearby and with the students gone we had the campus all to ourselves.