Re: AGA memorial fund for Vicki Costley

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

I actually liked the last paragraph, because if she is NOT an AGA member, 
it wouldn't be an appropriate place for it anyways.  I think sometimes 
they do honor member, like the GUY JORDAN fund in the ACA, but those are 
REALLY INCREDIBLE people. 

just my 2 cents worth.

Kathy


On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Erik Olson wrote:

> 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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