One of them challenged the others, “If you want them to change it you just have to earn the award and they will have to change it.” I don’t remember if Susan was in that group, but when she was given the award in 1986, it became known as the Member of Note. Bruce The Man of Note award's name was changed to Member of Note much earlier than 1986. I'm not sure the exact year, but I do remember making the motion to that effect during one of the first couple of years I was a Delegate to Council, with my first year being Minneapolis in 1979. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Dornfeld <bdornfeld at earthlink.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Mon, Oct 4, 2010 12:17 pm Subject: [pianotech] Susan Graham Susan’s sudden death is a great loss to all of us and one to our profession too. I have two memories to share about Susan. Back in the early 1980s, a group of PTG female members were having a discussion. Most of them agreed that PTG should change the award Man of Note to something less sexist. One of them challenged the others, “If you want them to change it you just have to earn the award and they will have to change it.” I don’t remember if Susan was in that group, but when she was given the award in 1986, it became known as the Member of Note. When I was new to service on the PTG Board, we were searching for a new Journal Editor. In those days the editor did much of the technical writing too. When Susan came into a board meeting for an interview, I told her and the board that I thought the position of Journal Editor was the most important job in PTG. She really did not know me from Adam, but it was the only time I have ever seen her look dumbfounded. Whether she had not considered it that way before, or was just caught off guard that a PTG Board member was not as full of self importance as she was lead to assume, I guess we will never know. We will miss you Susan. Bruce Dornfeld, RPT bdornfeld at earthlink.net North Shore Chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101004/0a775d40/attachment.htm>
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