[meteorite-list] Grandstanding?

[Jerry]

Hi Geoff and List,
Well said Geoff and more importantly well done!
It was easy to click on paypal and send a few bucks but you  and you 
colleagues who put this together deserve credit although I'm sure you folks 
shy away from that kind of "publicity".
Your motives are pure and we support your efforts.
Thanks from a sideline, "lazy" minor contributor.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Notkin" <geoking at notkin.net>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Grandstanding?


> Darren Garrison posted:
>
> > Wanting to present it in public in the form of a giant check is
> just tacky.
>
>
> Darren:
>
> Despite a serious hand injury, Maria Haas sent out over one hundred 
> emails last night to ensure everyone who has contributed to, or  helped, 
> the raffle in some way knows that (thanks to D. Stimpson) we  will not be 
> present at the Haviland Festival today. I note that your  name is absent 
> from the list of contributors, and yet you're very  quick to jump in and 
> let us know what we're doing wrong.
>
> May I suggest that you contact Maria Haas and offer her some  assistance? 
> She could certainly use help from someone -- such as  yourself -- who 
> evidently has plenty of spare time.
>
> Regarding Stimpson's comments in Mr. Anderson's article: We as a  group 
> (the Greensburg volunteers) do not require any publicity for  ourselves, 
> and have no "agenda" other than raising funds for our  friends and 
> colleagues in Kiowa County. I find it ironic that Mr.  Stimpson accused us 
> of staging publicity stunts and furthering an  agenda when he, himself, 
> has staged one publicity stunt after another  in an embarrassing attempt 
> to ride on the coattails of Steve Arnold's  success at Brenham. Remember 
> last year when he found a pile of broken  Brenham fragments in a hole, and 
> claimed he'd discovered a bigger  pallasite than Steve? It would all be 
> quite funny if it weren't for  the fact that Stimpson's pettiness has 
> interfered with an  international charity effort.
>
> Darren, what you fail to realize is that presenting an oversize check  to 
> the Haviland State Bank is something which interests local media.  Such an 
> event makes for a good photo op in a small town, and our  local stories in 
> Kansas have, several times, been picked up by  national media. It's a very 
> simple premise: Media attention = more  income generated for the 
> fundraiser. What Stimpson has achieved is to  limit media exposure for our 
> event, thereby reducing the amount of  cash we could have raised for his 
> neighbors. I'm guessing he's not  the most popular guy in Greensburg 
> today.
>
> You can reach Maria at:   dragonsoup at msn.com
>
> Finally, we'd like to -- once again -- thank the many List members  who 
> chose to do something positive and participate in the Greensburg  Charity 
> Raffle.
>
>
> http://www.aerolite.org/events/greensburg-fundraiser.htm
>
>
> Geoff N.
> Greensburg Charity Volunteer
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