Des Gilmore was a well known and very well liked and much respected figure in Scottish athletics.  For many over the last 50 years or so, he WAS Glasgow University AC and Hares & Hounds.  A  first rate official, he was qualified as a track judge, a field events official, wind gauge operator,  and a Grade 1 timekeeper.   He was also an administrator and long time secretary of the Dunbartonshire Amateur Athletics Association.   Also associated with the annual open University Road Race, he was efficient, organised and always, always on top of the job.   When he died this year many were surprised but all were saddened.   I reproduce here the obituary from the Glasgow Herald, but first have a report on one of the highlights.

There is an inevitable bit of repetition between the two articles and the obituary has had to be chopped in two because of the way it was originally laid out over five columns.  It follows:

 

He will be sadly missed for many years to come and we finish with a picture of him at the farewell party for the Westerlands Pavilion – a building with which he will be long associated.