Sorry to hear about your loss, Ann. See you in Chicago.
Jostein 2010/4/30 ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com>: > I say effectively, because I won't actually unsub.. but I have "0" time to > look at it.. > I'm not leaving NY until Monday, but the gods have conspired to make sure I > have no time > at all for myself before leaving... so I'm pretending I already left :-) > > Sadly, part of this is because my friend Rita Norr Provost passed away > yesterday after a long and miserable > battle with brain cancer. For the handful of you who sort of trail along on > my Scrabble life, she was the > 1987 National Scrabble Champion - and the only woman to have won either a > world or USA National > Championship. Her funeral and wake are on Saturday and and old friend of > ours is actually flying > up from Florida for it and staying two nights with me. My Toronto friends > were here for 5 days and > were still here when I got the news about Rita. It wasnt unexpected, yet > for some reason it hit many of > use very hard... she was only 66... and battled this thing for gosh, over 4 > years. > If you saw WORD WARS or read WORD FREAK you know who she is.. and I know > some of you are > familiar with it. > > So pardon me for not joining in all the revelry surrounding our exhibit and > the book for now.. . > > Here's the photo Rita liked best of her. I shot it in 1988 - when Newsweek > hired me along with one of their > regulars to get some photos of Scrabble players to go along with an article > on famous poor spellers alas, > they didn't use any of mine, but at least it was a paying gig. > > http://tinyurl.com/24tx7yl > > Re Chicago - I will be in costume -- a dress! (but not too dressy, I assure > you) > > > ann > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
