[Leica] LUG Yearbook status

[Doug Herr]

The National Gallery of Canada gives his name as Ted Grant.  That’s good enough for me.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com <http://www.wildlightphoto.com/>

> On Mar 18, 2021, at 7:24 PM, Howard Ritter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> Brian—
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> I just spent some time poking around on God’s Own Online Graphico-Lexical Engine and could find no source that referred to him as anything but Ted. Even his appearance in the index of his biography from several years ago is as “Grant, Ted”.
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> Given that ‘Ted’ is how he was universally known, especially to LUGgers, I think it would be most appropriate to dedicate the yearbook so.
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> —howard
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>> On Mar18, 2021, at 1748, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:
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>> The deadline for submitting pictures to this year's yearbook was 11 February.
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>> On 15 February I tested positive for Covid-19. You can imagine that the reason I went and got tested was that I was feeling worse than awful. So on February 12, when I should have started assembling the yearbook, I just sat there and stared into space.
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>> I seem to have recovered. I lost a month to Covid, but today I found myself feeling good enough to get started on assembling the yearbook. It went well, and I think I can finish it up in a week or so.
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>> I want to dedicate this year's book to Ted Grant, who as you surely know passed away in 2020. I figured that the name he was born with was not "Ted", probably "Theodore" or "Edward", and spent more time than I care to admit trying to find official documents, but can't find anything authoritative. Does anybody know?
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