As an expression of thanks to Stony Brook School, Stony Brook, Long Island, NY, I delivered a paper at ETS San Francisco on the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the institution by the Gaebeleins: Frank, headmaster (1922 1963) and his father Arno, the well known Bible teacher, writer and editor. To celebrate the School’s ninetieth anniversary ninety graduates, of whom I was privileged to be one, were honoured at a special evening 29 October. Both my father, Alexander, and my uncle, J Wesley Ingles, taught at the School and I graduated in 1955.