Best Benefactor: We're fortunate - and it's compliment to Puerto Vallarta - that this self-effacing Brit, who held an impressive job as Latin America's marketing director for Proctor & Gamble overseeing operations in 15 countries, chose to retire here.

Calling his career "a 40-year distraction" from what he really wanted to do, he digested his professional experiences in his first book, "Advertising and the Ignorant Savage," written in 1977.

Now his time and considerable talents are focusing on ensuring that Vallarta's youth, its hope for tomorrow, lead productive, culture-filled lives.

A Renaissance man, he paints and write beautifully, all the proceeds from his work going to benefit our community. The Becas scholarship fund and the Coastal University Center (CUC) have both sold his labors of love to raise funds, his 2002 book, "All is Safely Gathered In," being "a recollection in tranquility of the English country life I Lived in my more formative years."

Preferring to work behind the secenes, he volunteers with international golf tournaments and the Tous for Tots program, raises scholarship money for bright needy youth, helps with Navy League charitable projectos, represents his Conchas Chinas neighbors at City Hall, wrrites local newspaper and magazine articles and even managed to create a permanent art gallery at CUC, which was named after him.

It wasn't his idea, but as soon as getting wind of it he came up with a specific plan to make it happen. And if you  know Vallarta, yu know how refreshing that is. Demonstrating commitment, he donated 17 paingings from his personal colection as the basis for an ongoing collecion, now numbering around 30 valuable pieces thanks to the contributions of others.

He calls on every artist working or exhibiting in Puerto Vallarta to contribute and asks private collectors to give some thought to letting thousands of students enjoy a work  rather than keep it to themselves.

His fervent belief i that ecahc person can make a difference, and he crecits his Mexican wife, Buri, with teaching him that "love and generosity should be shared without restraint."