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Laurence Jay Gould, PhD, social scientist, organisational consultant, psychoanalyst, and influential educator, died in his home in New York City on 26 May 2010 while packing for a weekend trip to Paris with his companion Ruth Lazar. He was seventy-three. Dr Gould was a founding editor of this Journal and served as co-editor until 2008, after which he became a member of the Journal Management Committee. His death came as a great shock, and was a great loss to our community. Dr Gould touched, and was touched by, so many people at various times, in various countries, institutions, and organisations that any brief account that mentions some who were central to his life will invariably leave out others. To those not mentioned I offer my apology.
Larry, as he preferred to be called, was born in the borough of the Bronx in New York City on 8 February 1937. His parents were both children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, both raised on the Lower East Side. His father was a diamond setter; his mother was a representative for Farberware, an innovative cookware company. She travelled the metropolitan area demonstrating cooking techniques. Larry had a prototypically idyllic post-war New York City childhood. He was bright and athletic and spent his free time with friends playing stickball and stoopball. He was on his High School tennis and swimming teams. His five-year younger brother, Roger, describes Larry as the best of big brothers. With both parents working, caring for Roger was often Larry's task, and apparently his joy. Their father worked six days a week, but Sunday was reserved for the boys, and the Bronx Zoo was the favoured and usual destination. Perhaps this helps us understand why March of the Penguins was one of Larry's favourite movies.
Despite his parents' protest, Larry decided to leave the east coast and attend college at University of Michigan; it was his first foreign adventure. He was sixteen. In his sophomore year he announced he was switching his major