Re: AGA memorial fund for Vicki Costley

["David Lass" <davidlass@villasunscape.com>]

Nice to hear your two cents.
David
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Olson" <kathy@thekrib.com>
To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: AGA memorial fund for Vicki Costley


> 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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