[vcf-midatlantic] Fwd: [torontocbm] Bryan Pope

[Douglas Crawford]

If it has no practical place, Jeff, then I can
make something happen in the museum with the materials.
One way or another, we'll have our memorials in place.
I think this is important for the membership to see
that our members matter to us.

On 3/28/2024 3:03 PM, Jeffrey Brace wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 2:55 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic 
> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org 
> <mailto:vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I have this started for the museum.
>     However, I think it would be great to have special for EAST
>     presented around the
>     exhibit area.  Its up to Jeff what form this takes, but Chris, can
>     you head up pulling together
> 
> Now that you are taking the lead on this, I can consider where it might 
> go. It is challenging to find a place due to the fact that VCF East is 
> less than two weeks away and that all the spaces has been planned down 
> to the inch. I will take further discussion of this with you off this 
> discussion list and you can update me on how much space is needed for 
> this memorial.
> 
> It’s a nice thing to plan.
> 
> 
>     materials for all these memorials?  I'll take care of the
>     arrangements on campus for it
>     when its decided how to do it.  We can take this off line, contact
>     Chris if you can help
>     him.  We'll pull something nice together.
>     I started doing this for Festivus- had Dan represented two years ago
>     and wanted to have
>     Bob represented last Festivus and couldn't get it done.... We can do
>     better for East.
>     I'll take the materials and move them into the museum and formalize
>     our memorial wall there
>     after East.
>     DC
> 
>     On 3/27/2024 6:13 PM, madodel wrote:
>>     Not sure how the VCF feels about it but perhaps the board should
>>     look into a memorial plaque for the members who have passed to be
>>     somewhere in the museum itself, instead of just a temporary one
>>     time effort. I'd be willing to under right the cost for a nice
>>     updatable wood or bronze memorial. None of us are getting any
>>     younger and people like Dan and Brian and others were the folks
>>     who helped get this group and museum going, along with Evan,
>>     though he's still kicking. Just a suggestion.
>>
>>
>>     Mark
>>
>>
>>     On 3/26/24 10:49, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>>>     Forwarding a message from the TPUG mailing list
>>>
>>>     I had no idea that he was sick. This is a shocker. He was a
>>>     friend of mine
>>>     since I joined MARCH in 2008. He was one of the original members.
>>>     I just
>>>     texted him Happy Birthday last week. Saw him only a year ago at
>>>     World of
>>>     Commodore.
>>>
>>>     Jeff Brace
>>>
>>>     ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>     From: Kenneth Rath <capjtkirk1967 at gmail.com>
>>>     <mailto:capjtkirk1967 at gmail.com>
>>>     Date: Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 9:58 AM
>>>     Subject: [torontocbm] Bryan Pope
>>>     To: <torontocbm at freelists.org> <mailto:torontocbm at freelists.org>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Sad news...
>>>
>>>     After a brief battle with kidney cancer, our friend Brian Pope
>>>     passed away
>>>     this morning at 8:22am.
>>>
>>>     Thank-you to all that were able to visit him at Grand View in
>>>     Kitchener and
>>>     thank-you to all that were a big or small part of his life.  He
>>>     greatly
>>>     appreciated it.
>>>
>>>     He will be missed.
>>
>>
>     -- 
>     Douglas Crawford
>     VCF Mid-Atlantic Museum Mgr
>     InfoAge Science & History Museums
>     2201 Marconi Road Wall, NJ 07719  <https://www.google.com/maps/search/2201+Marconi+Road%0D%0AWall,+NJ+07719?entry=gmail&source=g>
> 

-- 
Douglas Crawford
VCF Mid-Atlantic Museum Mgr
InfoAge Science & History Museums
2201 Marconi Road
Wall, NJ 07719