I don’t know if this is one of those “strangely-believe-it” situations, but consider this: the name of former Boston WEEI News radio 59 reporter “Chip” Whitmore came to me this morning in one of those transitional stages of slumber. Fully awake now, I write to let you know that Henry “Chip” Whitmore passed away in a traffic-helicopter accident, 1977, over the Boston area. Ironically, he and the pilot were standing-in that day for the regular traffic reporter and pilot — on vacation at the time. I cannot explain why “Chip” Whitmore’s name should come to mind all these years later. I did not know him. I had been working at the radio station only for a couple of months and had been working during a different part of the day. Something very evident in the days following the tragic circumstance though was that Whitmore was very popular among colleagues and other Boston broadcasters. I had to do a “Web-search,” this morning because I could not recall the exact date of the accident — December 27, 1977. However, I learned also of an interesting coincidence — Whitmore’s birthday just passed a couple of days ago, August 28. He would have been 66 years old. On a personal note, his untimely death led to my transition from freelance to staff anchor/reporter at WEEI Radio, that year – a promotion I could not celebrate.