CHARLES D. BATTY

I have many memories of David, but one sticks in my mind. I was in a class he taught in the Univ. of Maryland College of Library and Information Sciences. What David did was on the last day of classes that Semester. We came into class and there sat David in casual clothes holding an acoustical guitar. He treated us to jazz renditions of some of John Donne's sonnets. I was originally skeptical. However, before David had finished his first piece, I realized he had put the work of Donne...

In one way it seems like only recently that I was crushed by David's death; in another way it seems like a lifetime ago, mine. Part of me won't admit he's gone; part of me feels like my life started downhill from that time, and is gaining speed. Now, as an Administrator for the private Facebook Group "Anglo-Celtic Religion, History, Liturgy, and Saints," I wish he could participate in our discussions, or I could at least ask his advice about the runic and abstruse questions we are always...

Dear Gayle I greatly appreciate your having written to me shortly before Christmas and as soon as I saw that it was from you I knew dear David was no longer with us. Please forgive my not having written before now to extend to you and the rest of the family my sincere condolences.
Only today have I got round to Googling for an obituary, for I felt sure there would be one somewhere, and see that it is the anniversary of his departing.
It must be difficult for you to place all of David's...

Dear Mrs Batty
Thank you very much for your letter with the sad news of David's death of which I was totally unaware. I sympathise sincerely with you on your great loss. I too have many happy memories of David.
I am afraid that I am no longer in contact with anyone in the library world. I am no longer able to read or write and I am grateful to kind friends who are writing this for me and will send it to you as I am no longer able to get out and about which I suppose is not really...

My sincerest condolences to the Batty family. I have just learned of David's passing. Although I did not know him well, I remember him as a kind, intelligent, witty and smart person. I met him in the the late 1980s, when I was a young copy editor on a biomedical database project at a small Washington consulting firm. He was a key consultant on the project, and through a passing conversation one day he learned that I was a fledgling musician and composer, with a strong interest in 20th...

With many fond memories of our time together at ASIS and our work together at the US Drug Enforcement Administration on their thesaurus. Also times together with families at BBQs. An inspiration to all who knew David. And nice for me that our children independently met each other.

6 months on and I didn't realise you can post a comment here! Well, as the first-born and carrier of his legacy, I must say that his loss is SO sorely felt. Never was there an exponent of knowledge, (not only knowledge but the exploration of knowledge) of intelligence, of compassion, of rational thought, of the melding of the creative and the rational, of plumbing the depths of emotion and logic simultaneously, as my Dad! Since Da Vinci, I don't think there has been anyone who could truly...

When the sun came through the rafters of the church during the service for David you knew he was off to the next great journey. A very special man.
With love Jim

Jazs - our heartfelt sympathy for you and your family. He is in heaven at peace now. Jane and CEM