Re: AGA memorial fund for Vicki Costley (fwd)

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

Cheryl wrote:

> I don't mean to be mean, but it makes me feel icky to be asked to make
> gestures for someone who died when I didn't know them. I had personal,
> albeit e-mail contact with Merrill Cohen. I had never heard of Vicki
> until she died.

I'm glad you said it, Cheryl.  I started writing something about Merrill,
then erased it to go back to less personal reasons not to do this.  But if
ANYONE deserves something like this, it would be Merrill.  He actively
contributed to the hobby in MAJOR ways for 60-odd years.  I don't know Vicky
at all, even by reputation.  I have no doubt that she was a delightful
person, and her death is tragic.  But she's not the one putting us in this
predicament... It's the folks from these webs sites.  I suspect that, out of
our own membership, we have lost other nice people who have helped other
people.  Another AGA'er that immediately comes to mind is Jare Sausaman.  He
was KEY to the reoganization of AGA.  We did for him the same sort of thing
we did for Merrill, with a tribute in TAG, and a mention of an appropriate
place to send donations if people wanted.

But even there it's different with this gal.  She wasn't even a member of
AGA herself.  How many AGA members would have a clue who she was?  I'm sure
the only people who would know her are people who are members of both AGA
_AND_ these web groups.  And they already know.  ... Certainly the hobby as
a whole has lost other major contributors...  Al Castro died within the past
year or two and I don't even think we mentioned his passing in TAG.

I suspect that they don't even realize the ramifications of what they are
asking, though, and the response to them probably deserves some tact.
Another possible solution... Did she belong to a local aquarium
organization?  If so, her name would mean more to those folks, and $400
would go farther in a local setting.  Or... How about suggesting that they
donate them money to Wilma Duncan?  I don't know if you folks know who she
is, but she has started a single-handed program to help poverty level
children in Appalachia set up small aquariums in their homes.  She collects
donated equipment, plants and fish and then distributes them.  $400 would
probably mean a LOT to her program.

Karen


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