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Subject: [Leica] LUG Yearbook status
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:32:02 -0700
References: <195481fe771d200a9885c4a2abaf72d3@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> <4D782CF1-E36D-4848-B2CE-B31C37516356@bex.net>

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:
> 
> Brian?
> 
> 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?.
> 
> Given that ?Ted? is how he was universally known, especially to LUGgers, I 
> think it would be most appropriate to dedicate the yearbook so.
> 
> ?howard
> 
>> On Mar18, 2021, at 1748, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:
>> 
>> The deadline for submitting pictures to this year's yearbook was 11 
>> February.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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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