Sorry to hear about your friend, Ann. We'll toast her when you come to
Chicago. See you then. xxoo Christine
----- Original Message -----
From: "ann sanfedele" <ann...@nyc.rr.com>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:21 PM
Subject: PESO and ... Effectively off list for a bit... see some of you
inChicago
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
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