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Subject: [Leica] LUG Yearbook status
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 06:32:49 +0100
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Indeed. And that is how it is written on the copyright page of his books. So 
I think Ted is actually his official name.

Brian, great to hear that you have recovered. It is a nasty virus.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 19 Mar 2021, at 03:32, Doug Herr via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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