texascavers Digest 19 Jun 2012 00:26:16 -0000 Issue 1576
Topics (messages 20197 through 20201):
Calling Charlie Loving
20197 by: dirtdoc.comcast.net
20199 by: dirtdoc.comcast.net
Thank You
20198 by: Jenni Arburn
Nick Arburn obituary
20200 by: Geary Schindel
driving to Mexico?
20201 by: Mixon Bill
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Hey Charlie:
I can't find your e-mail. I would like to use a couple of your cartoons (with
due credit) in a talk at the Lewisburg NSS convention.
DirtDoc
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Got it. Thanks.
Dirtdoc
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Thanks so much to our Caver Family for your help and support as we say goodbye
to our Nick. We are awed at how many lives he touched and how many loved him as
much as we did. We could not have made it through these days without all of you.
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Folks,
I think most of the caving community is aware of Nick Arburn's untimely passing
last Tuesday. Nick's obituary appeared in the San Antonio Express News this
morning and online yesterday (June 15). You can view the online obituary at
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=nicolas-jospeh-arburn&pid=158044113&fhid=8909
In lieu of flowers, the Arburn family has asked that donations can be made to
the Junior Speleological Society (JSS) of the National Speleological Society
www.caves.org/donate<http://www.caves.org/donate>.
For those that are attending the NSS Convention, I would also encourage you to
visit the JSS and volunteer your time during the convention in honor of Nick.
The JSS organizer had to withdraw from the JSS last week for personal reasons
and the JSS/NSS convention staff are working hard to fill the void. Volunteers
are always welcome and they have some excellent horizontal and vertical trips
planned. I'm sure Nick would have been right in the middle of that.
On a personal note, I always thought that Nick was a fine young man, I have
fond memories of him running all over the Shriner Campus at the ICS in the golf
cart. I called him the chief gopher and general roustabout for the convention.
He made a lot of lives easier ferrying people and materials all over campus,
fixing things, helping where he could. He performed the same role at many TCRs.
You could assign Nick a task and knew it was taken care of. He was a get it
done kind of guy. At a recent party, he came up to me and shook my hand (as he
always did) and we had a very nice conversation. He was good man with a great
heart. He will be greatly missed.
Geary Schindel
NSS AVP
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If anyone from Austin or vicinity is planning on driving into Mexico
before too long and would be willing to mail a 21-pound box of AMCS
books in Mexico, let me know. Someone in D.F. is ordering them and
would like to avoid the $60 postage from the U.S. and possible customs
duty if possible. Mailing them in Mexico would presumably be cheaper.
(I think "before too long" means a month or so, but not several
months.) -- Mixon
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I'm walking down the street with Leonardo da Vinci. He says, "The
things your science has created are indeed wonderful. You must explain
to me how everything works." That's when I wake up.
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