That's great news! I was lucky enough to have a significant camaraderie with Ken - he was the testing officer for my CPL, ME CIR and a few of my renewals in the late 80's
I always describe him as a hard task master but scrupulously fair. He certainly made me feel at ease in the left seat.
My all time favourite memory of Ken was one day when I was refuelling an aircraft on the line, I had a chuppa-chup in my mouth (for non-Aussies, a lolly on a white stick). Ken was climbing into the cockpit of an aircraft on the line behind, saw me, jumped off the wing, came straight over to me and asked what I thought I was doing.
From a distance he thought I had a cigarette in my mouth whilst peering into a the tank to see if it was uptown the tab! Can I say it made my next CIR renewal an interesting proposition!
Go Ken!