A.E. Perry, or Tony, needs no introduction to the turbulence and fluid mechanics community. His death in January 2001 was a shock to us all. A trademark of his work was simple experiments coupled with astonishing physical insight and masterful analyses. The citation for his election as a Fellow of the APS in 1998 read "For physical insights into the behavior of turbulence, structure-based modeling approaches, elegant use of scaling arguments and inspirational teaching".