Re: AGA memorial fund for Vicki Costley

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, S. Hieber wrote:

> I still like stating the practical difficulty of chosing
> any one person to honor, given that we couldn't do prizes
> for them all or even many. It suggests that we are not
> rejecting Vicki in particular but rejecting singling out
> everyone.

This is what I implicitly tried to state in the first paragraph, because I
thought if I explicitly stated anything then it would get read as
either, "Hey, there's too many people who've died -- to be fair, we should
just honor NONE of them instead of one of them."  ... or alternatively ...
"Hey, lots of people have died, but there's more important ones to honor."  
Both of these statements really suck, and are really NOT appropriate to 
say.  Remember the circus that ensued on one of the lists where someone 
first suggested a moment of silence... and it rapidly grew into a whole 
"obit" section for the convention (not unlike what has happened this week 
here), and then someone else suggested we should then do nothing for 
anyone, and yet another person came down like a ton of bricks on that 
thought for being beaurocratic and inhumane.  

I much preferred to leave that aspect ambiguous and just note that we've
had good friends die too & let them draw their own conclusions.

So you're probably right -- I will take out the last paragraph or at least 
mutate it.

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com

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