Oh my gosh - I would love to contact him (I still owe him the bibliography to my paper comparing Elagabalus and Aurelian's monotheistic stirrings. It's in my papers... somewhere.) I am so grateful to learn he is still with you.

Still love the memory of Hal (ex AP as I recall) interrupting his undergrad series lecture (4A?), look out in the audience, and tell a student ostentatiously reading the Daily Bruin "If you're going to read a paper in the front rows, put it on your desk, dummy".