Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted honoured - Lifetime Achievement award
From: kabob@tiac.net (Bob Keene/Karen Shehade)
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:51:26 -0400

You'll be able to spot Ted, he'll be the guy with fifteen camera bodies
hanging from his neck/shoulders/hands!!! Clutched in one hand will be some
underwear..... :)

Congrats Ted!!

Bob Keene

>
>Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 07:34:40 -0700
>From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@islandnet.com>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted honoured - Lifetime Achievement award
>
>Tim Atherton wrote:
>
>>Our own Ted (I am presuming) is being honoured, along with Karsh
>>
>>>From the CAPIC (Canadian Association of Photographers & illustrators in
>>Communications http://www.CAPIC.org/mainframe.html) website:
>>
>>"1999 Lifetime Achievement Awards
>
>Howdy folks,
>
>Let me clarify this a bit, as some of you may remember my excitement at the
>beginning of the year when I posted my good fortune of being nominated for
>the CAPIC Life Time Achievement Award. At which time many of you offered
>congratulations, which I humbly accept.
>
>At the time they were to be presented in March, but this date was changed
>to coincide with two things, Yousuf Karsh's itinerary and the PPOC/CAPIC
>convention next week in Ottawa.  A major event for Canadian professional
>photographers.
>
>So it is once again a time to become nervous at standing before my peers
>and receive a wonderful honour of recognition, especially with Yousuf Karsh
>and Tom McNeely.
>
>It is double good fortune for me, as I won the Yousuf Karsh Award in 1971
>for B&W portraiture in Photojournalism presented by the the Professional
>Photographers of Canada. So to stand with him while we both receive the
>same Life Time Award gives an extra special meaning to the event.
>
>So the big gala evening is on Tuesday the 10th next week in Ottawa. I
>assure you I'll make the LUG family proud and hold the Leica on high!
>
>ted
>
>Ted Grant
>This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler.
>http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
>
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