I have only just learnt that Mr Esplin passed away. I am quite sad to hear this news. He was my very first boss after I finished secretarial school and he was a great first boss, it was straight down to business and there was no room for any errors! I have carried this right through my career. I pass on my sympathy to his family and friends, he was a good man.
I learned much from Mr. Esplin as an employee of his law firm in the late eighties and early 1990's. How could any one he ever employed forget the words "Just get it done" and "Be proactive, not reactive". He achieved great heights in the business, the law as well as in his family life. I was privileged to be invited into and to observe facets of all of these aspects of his life. As I have experienced much and learned further elsewhere from those times, my respect for his positive attributes deepened, although I did not have an opportunity to see him since a visit some time ago or congratulate him on all his achievements.