FAST FIVE WITH...David Latter, LWPT Chair of Trustees
David Latter is the Chair of
the LWPT Board of Trustees.
We caught up with him and
asked him a quickfire round of
questions. Read what David had
to say...
What does a typical day look like for you
and what are you currently working on?
Being retired from full-time salaried
employment, it is difficult to describe a
‘typical’ day. What is typical is that time
is my own, but there are many demands
on it; demands from my volunteer work
as a trustee of LWPT, requests for booking
activities at my local church, family support with four grandchildren living locally
and my own continued development through reading and connecting across the
internet.
What three words would you use to describe your role?
Challenging, rewarding, engaging
If you could do another job for just one day, what would it be?
13 years ago I underwent a triple cardiac artery bypass graft, following diagnosis
with angina, so I would love to be a cardiac surgeon for a day and be able to assist
in giving somebody a new lease of life, from a medical perspective.
If you could interview one person (dead or alive) who would it be?
I have read ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ and would love to understand the mind of
‘Madiba’, Nelson Mandela. After being involved in the struggle to free South Africa
from apartheid, imprisoned for 27 years and released under increasing civil
unrest, he led a country through a sea-change in politics and government and
became a statesman, respected the world over. Life in South Africa today is far
from ideal, but the nation has a great debt to this one man. In a world obsessed by
‘me, me, me’ from the upper echelons of national leadership to the ordinary person
in the street, we can learn so much from someone so selfless, humble and loving.
If you could meet anyone in the world dead or alive who would it be and why?
Symon Latter, my 7 times great grandfather who lived between 1632 and the turn
of the century. It would be fascinating to see a perspective of life in a world without
technical communications and pre-climate change and experience (through word
of mouth?) the Great Fire of London and Civil War. ■
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