Re: [Leica] calling on the LUG to do a good deed: leica scholarship

["\(SonC\) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>]

Of all the hair-brained ideas you come up with!!! I think this one is great.

Count me in.  We should send our autographed pieces of paper to you?

Sonny


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From: "Kyle Cassidy" <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 3:26 PM
Subject: [Leica] calling on the LUG to do a good deed: leica scholarship


> Okay, I promise, just this once and I'll leave everybody along for a long
> time. But I think right now we have an opportunity to do something Good
here
> and I think that this body, with the collective power has a unique ability
> to do something other than just talk.
>
> In any event, you may recall that at the conclusion of the LUG's last
> charity fundraiser ("Christmas in Bucharest" which raised $2,500 for
> homeless kids living in Romania) I proposed that our next charity event
> should be photography related -- a LUG scholarship for sending a young
> photojournalist student somewhere to take photos.
>
> Well, a week ago I got an email from just such a person.
>
> Scott Squire is a LUGger and a photojournalism student at Berkeley who, at
> classes end finds himself looking out over 100 days of summer lying before
> him like a raft of empty time which makes me weep for my youth. Mr. Squire
> is gung ho to do a long term doccumentary project overseas and, after
> looking at his portfolio, I think he has quite a considerable talent and
it
> would be a Very Good Thing if we could sponser him.
>
> What I'm proposing:
>
> 1) Scott can contribute money of his own, but I'd like to come up with AT
> LEAST $1000 to defray the cost of his travel.
> 2) He's interested in going to Romania to cover the homeless situation,
> which I think would be excellent as we would be able to see the results of
> the money we sent over in December.
> 3) If the LUG agrees to this, I'll call B&H, Freetyle, and several other
> places to see if I can get them to donate film and equipment.
> 4) I'd like to get either a) 10 luggers to contribute $100 or, that that
> doesn't happen, 20 luggers to contribute $50 -- the price of a photo
book --
> towards getting him over there and maybe some food and film.
>
> BUT WHAT DO WE GET IN RETURN?
> Ah, nothing, of course, is free. The LUG will have specific requirements
for
> the use of our funds.
>
> 1) Scott will be asked to keep a photo-journal on line, updated weekly,
that
> we can log into and follow his progress -- get to know his subjects and
> their lives. The web page will also have a contributors section, if you
care
> to make a gift in someone's name, what better place to memorialize them?
or
> yourself for that matter.
>
> 2) Upon returning also, he will make a traveling exhibit (i'm thinking
> unmatted, unframed) which can then be sent from city to city, a LUGGER in
> each city taking the responsibility of finding a place to hang it so
nearby
> luggers can see it. Even if this is nothing more than a show at someone's
> house, if it gets the LUG meeting one another, what could be better?
>
> 3) A tax write off? who knows. I'll defer to one of the Lugyers who may
have
> specific expertise in the itchy field of charitable donations and taxes
and
> how this might be achieved if people want to make larger contributions.
>
> I know I've personally longed to spend months living in a $20 a week hotel
> filled with rats and bugs, sleeping in sewers and really getting to do
> serious doccumentary work. I think a lot of the LUG has too, but when
those
> two paths diverged in the wood, other careers have come in the way and
> somewhere in the years that have passed, we find that we own SUV's and
white
> picket fences and suddenly our lives are too complicated to take three
> months to go anywhere. Imagine the impact this could have made on any of
us
> when we were 24. I'm not unhappy with my life as an armchair photographer,
> and I really would enjoy living vicariously a little through this project.
>
> Please look at Scott's portfolios and get back to me if you're interested:
>
>
> http://journalism.berkeley.edu/students/squire/ecuastories/FrameSet.html
>
>
> http://journalism.berkeley.edu/students/squire/ecuasingles/FrameSet.html
>
> I don't want to turn this forum into a telethon and I PROMISE that if we
do
> this, I'll leave everybody alone. At least until next summer. We can make
> this happen; I'll be the first to throw $50 into the ring. Anybody else?
>
> Thanks for your time and attention, I now return you to your regularly
> scheduled Summilux-R discussion,
>
> Kyle
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