Keep on running . . .

I refer to the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT and would appreciate your forwarding to me a supply of marathon sponsorship forms, say 60.—JOHN A.

GALLAGHER, divisional welfare secretary, London Fire Brigade, L Division.

That's the spirit! The forms have been sent with pleasure.—EDITOR.

Yes, I'd do it all again The article by Rosemarie Ide, wife of Coxswain!Mechanic Frank Ide of Poole, published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT, aroused great interest and was read with much pleasure. Here are some of the comments received by Mrs Ide and at HQ: I would like to congratulate you on your most excellent article . . . not only was it most interesting in its content, but oh so well put together. Well done.—R. L. WESSEL, Committee of Management member, Salcombe.

I congratulate you on your splendid article, so naturally told and so true in every way.—JOAN LIDDON, wife of the late Coxswain Arthur Liddon of Dover.

Congratulations on the article in the journal. It was a good read and well written. We hope that it will show more people the important role that wives play in the lifeboat service.—LEN and FRAN PATTEN, coxswain of Newhaven lifeboat and his wife.

I am particularly grateful for the article by Mrs Rosemarie Ide. It conveys what it feels like to be a lifeboatman's wife quite wonderfully—so vivid in fact that I could imagine her just chatting to me in the room.—BRYAN L.

RICHARDS, life governor, London N6.

Please pass on my thanks and congratulations to Mrs Rosemarie Ide for her truly excellent contribution; a real pleasure it was to read.—M. s. RAWDING, Shoreline member, Nottingham.

Everybody's friend Hundreds of schools throughout the country will be saddened to hear that Jacko Harris suffered a fatal heart attack during the recent Sea Sunday Service at Appledore. He was aged 70 and had been boathouse attendant for the past 14 years. His work was entirely voluntary as he had a pacemaker in his heart, the first in North Devon, a fact of which he was inordinately proud.

Before 1968 no one ever visited Appledore boathouse, but Jacko, almost singlehanded, made it one of the most attractive in the country. He was awarded the Institution's silver badge for his outstanding work.

A man of very small stature but with a great heart he will be most sadly missed by everyone but especially by the thousands of school children he loved to show round his boathouse. The masses of letters to him on the walls testify to his popularity. It was most fitting that his last living sight was of the place where he spent most of his waking hours.—COLIN LOWRY, Captain RN, chairman of Appledore branch, Buckleigh House, Westward Ho!, Devon.

Methodist youth On Saturday May 15, 1982, in the Royal Albert Hall, London, the Methodist Association of Youth Clubs held its annual show. The RNLI was deeply involved in one of the items put on by the Whitby and Scarborough area clubs: 'Regardless of the Consequences'.

This involved the construction in a very limited time of a replica lifeboat and the transfer of a young girl across the arena by breeches buoy; when she reached the 'lifeboat' the applause was most generous. As a member of the regular stage crew for this show it was my privilege and pleasure to be a witness of this item.

While there were no financial benefits directly resulting, I am sure that the publicity gained can only be of great value to the RNLI. The display was watched by some 10,000 people.—J. F.

EVANS, Shoreline member, 3 Little Court, Roxborough Avenue, Harrow, Middlesex..