The memory of Ray Flood

BY ED FELIEN

Ray Flood, the “Clock Doc,” passed away quietly in his sleep on June 1.  He was a decorated war hero from World War II and the Korean War.  He was active in Scouting all his life, very proud of his grandchildren getting their Star and Life awards on their way to Eagle.  He was a legitimate “Doc,” in that he had a Ph.D. in engineering.  He was an early pioneer in computers, but his real love late in life was fixing clocks.  I first ran into him when he fixed a beat up old Art Deco clock of mine.  He put an electric motor in it and repainted it to make it look brand new.  I loved talking to him every month.  He told me one of his greatest thrills was going to a clockmakers convention in London and seeing Big Ben.  He was kind and good and gentle.  I think all of us want to make the world a little bit better than we found it.  Ray Flood found a way to do that, and we were all richer for having known him.