Re: [Harp-L] Tate at 70 [years and MPH!]

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Doug,

Let me be the second to say bravo !

Your enthusiasm and talent are a boon to us all.

Ben FELTEN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bobbie Giordano" <bobg@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 9:56 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Tate at 70 [years and MPH!]


> Hi friends,
>
> Most of us know that SPAH rescued Harp-L a few years ago from financial
> disability and impending doom.  Shortly after, SPAH was itself troubled,
and
> only one person was willing to take up the reins and drive it onward.  Not
> only did Douglas Tate accept the post of SPAH President, he guided it
through
> very tough times, including a costly lawsuit, which SPAH eventually won,
to
> redesign and redefine SPAH's mission and organization.
>
> Whereas SPAH had been more locally based in Michigan, Douglas [a UK
native]
> knew it has to become more globally based in order to flourish and grow;
and
> with the communicative help of the Internet, he accrued a team of officers
> and assistants, mostly from various parts of the USA, to devise ways of
> promoting SPAH's outreach.  Via countless Internet board meetings, plans
have
> evolved into conventions of evergrowing proportions, financial success and
> offerings of talent, education and camaraderie for harmonica lovers the
world
> over.  Enthusiasts for the instrument have flocked to these intoxicating
> events in Denver, CO, Columbus, OH, Dallas, TX, and St. Louis, MO, since
> Douglas became president, and next year we'll "invade" Kansas City, MO.
>
> Through all this diligent effort, Doug has kept enormous devotion to
helping
> fellow harmonicists in any way possible, privately and publicly on several
> mailing lists, including Harp-L, of course, through seminars, tutoring,
books
> and published articles.  He also continues to enlighten the world about
the
> harmonica by performing exceptional music in diverse settings, and always
> seizing any opportunity at the same time to educate the masses on the many
> subtleties and complexities they can discover and appreciate by getting
> better acquainted with the instrument.
>
> And, of course, I'm proud to know all these things, because he also
strives
> to build the best chromatic harmonica "we" know how, having honored me in
> 1996 to help him design and create the Renaissance, of which #49 is now in
> production.
>
> So, I just thought on this, his 70th birthday, it would be nice to honor
him,
> truly a Renaissance Man for the harmonica, and to thank him for his many
> generous ways of promoting and advancing our beloved instrument.
>
> As I write, he is doing just that in Bristol, UK, at the National
Harmonica
> League Festival, so he may not see this until he gets home, but anyway...
>
> Thanks, Doug!
> And Very Best Birthday Wishes!!!
>
> Your partner,
>
> Bobbie
> {ILUS}
>
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