I met Dennis at age 5 or 6, in Primary at The John Thomas Dye School. He was my first encounter with leadership. At its core, a leader is someone who people follow and by whom they are influenced. If you were around Dennis, it was virtually impossible not to follow him. A rascal with a heart of gold and a mordant sense of humor, Dennis was fueled by a hunger to try anything … [Read more...]

I met Dennis Lynn via my good friend Dave Allen. Dave and I would regulary frequent many of the resturants and clubs that Dennis worked at starting with the Casa Del Mar and then onto the Wilshire both in Santa Monica. When my friend Dave Allen moved in with Dennis as a roomate, I got the chance to spend many nights and some days at the Lynn household in Brentwood. Later … [Read more...]

Having grown up with parents who told stories of the woodie wagons that they had and going with my dad to car shows and admiring those unique "Termite Trucks", I was fascinated with Dennis' car from the first time I saw it on campus. Now, Dennis was always a great guy and we enjoyed a few classes together. But, the fun we had in that woodie, heading to football games and … [Read more...]

I met Dennis when I was 12 and he introduced me to his group of neighborhood friends, Chris, Stan, Bill, Rob.... Years before, Dr. Lynn had repaired my dad's shoulder in a bodysurfing accident but I hadn't met Dennis yet. Right off I knew this was a good guy because he brought me into his circle of friends and made me one of them. And he had a sometimes dark, sometimes goofy, … [Read more...]

I will post a memory separately, but the two quotations that Dennis selected for his senior page in the Harvard yearbook are particularly poignant: "If words came as ready as ideas, and ideas as feelings, I could say ten hundred kind things. You know not my supreme happiness at having one on earth whom I can call friend." - Charles Lamd "True friendship is like sound … [Read more...]