Just got the following from Alicia: "The wake will be from 1 to 4 pm Saturday at Boldos with food and drink. Well be taking up a collection to cover an obituary for him....We'll have a photo of him for folks to sign. We'll give that to his stepmother with his ashes when she comes to town next from Florida."
I'll post on the Facebook page; please pass this along to anyone you know who knew Tom and would like to join us in remembering him. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Pat Rapp <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the quote, Eric -- I could actually hear Tom's voice when I > read that. > : ) > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Tom Whittemore passed away in the night between Tuesday and >> Wednesday. He'd been sick for a long time, getting sicker, mostly as >> complications of his diabetes. We haven't had a message to the group about >> this; the news has been passing around since very early yesterday, but I >> wanted to make sure everyone in the group heard. >> >> For those who didn't know him, Tom was a founding board member of R-SPEC, >> and an old D-309er from way back. A lot of us knew Tom, some of us very >> well; I can't count myself in the latter category, but I liked and >> respected him very much. When I first met him through R-SPEC, he struck me >> quickly as a person of keen insight, and nowhere more so than where story >> structure is concerned. And he could be blunt, but was seldom rude. Anyone >> who's had him read their work has probably heard him say something like, >> "that's a really nice scene but it serves absolutely no purpose there. I >> think you should cut it." And he'd usually be right. In our writing group, >> we started recording our stories for his benefit (for some time, his vision >> has been prohibitively poor for long form reading), and we all found the >> exercise useful as it forced us to hear the work in new ways. >> >> Someone will post a note here & on Facebook when we know more about his >> memorial service, which will probably be this weekend, possibly at Alex >> White's shop on Monroe Avenue ('Boldo's Armory'), near the loop. >> >> >> -- >> -- >> eric scoles | [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Pat Rapp > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > -- -- eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
