Backing away

[Peter Byrne Manchester <PMANCHESTER@ccmail.sunysb.edu>]

	I want to applaud Vickie for backing away from any role as impressario 
of some collective love-hounds gesture on the occasion of Hannah Bush's death.  
What I was trying to get at when I posted on the night that Vickie had reported 
that news to us is clarified by her instinct here.  This is not a fan club 
moment.  Those who have pointed out the imposition it would be on the Bush 
family to have to deal with pounds of useless flowers and piles of 
correspondence just now are right on target too.

	The very sincere impulse that so many of us feel to make a gesture of 
acknowledgement on this occasion is authentic, and if pooled into a significant 
benefit for a charity that the family respects can be a worthwhile good.  
Whether we need someone to compile those gestures into a collective action of 
this newsgroup seems doubtful to me, as apparently it seems doubtful to Andrew 
Marvick too.

	Thanks to those who are learning and posting addresses for the 
foundation that has been identified.
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							      Peter Manchester
   "I'm scared of the changes" 			      pmanches@sbccmail.bitnet
				       		 pmanchester@ccmail.sunysb.edu