I had a phone call this afternoon from our newly promoted
Writer Emeritus, Irv Newman. (Irv is just a few years younger than Ed Lyman
was). Irv called me mainly about Ed Lyman, asking if we as a group
have in any way memorialized Ed since his passing. When I said we hadn't
done anything "official" and the Herald-Tribune's obit of him was minimal, he
suggested we do something as a group. His idea was this.
Whoever in our group wants to, should write a brief (a couple
lines, or more) testimony about his/her own personal impressions or
feelings about Ed. (This would be strictly optional, of course, not
mandatory since some of the newer attendees didn't know Ed very
well.) We gather the submissions at the December 5th meeting (or via
email for those who won't be at the meeting--they can email them to either
you or me.) We gather them at the December 5th meeting, give them to
me, and then I'll assemble them into some sort of little "album" that
we would then distribute during the Xmas party on Dec. 19. I have a photo
of Ed that I should be able to use on the "cover" of our "I Remember Ed Lyman"
album. Irv Newman already wrote a tribute to Ed and he's going
to mail it to me. I thought I'd place Irv's little tribute as the
opening page of the album.
Let me know what you think of the idea. As I said, once
we have everyone's written remembrances I'll be glad to assemble them into
some kind of collection that we could pass out to everyone at the Dec.
19th meeting -- a sort of Xmas present to all of us from Ed. But we'd have
to have all the submissions to me by the Dec. 5th meeting.
If you agree with Irv's idea you could post something on the
blog and/or send an e mail to everyone on our list. I will mail a copy of
the published album/collection to Irv Newman since it was his idea.
What say you?
Russ
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