[SML] Eight Bells for Dick Archer

[Jon Ares]

This is sad news indeed.  Dick was a great resource to this list, and
to his students.

 - Jon

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 8:57 AM Ford Sellers via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Dick Archer, Technical Director at Cornell University, mentor to many of us, and longtime contributor to the list has passed.
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> He was recently moved into Hospice, and surrounded by family at the time of his passing.
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> He had been battling liver cancer (ironic, as he never touched drugs or alcohol) for the last year and change.
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> Dick has been an incredible resource to many of us over the years.  He was a stagehand at Woodstock, mentored Tom Hanks (as a stagehand, not actor) at the Great Lakes Theatre, and worked as both a Professor at Cornell and freelance TD for the last several decades.
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> He was a sometimes curmudgeon (though never with a bit of spite), with a fantastic sense of humor who was almost world famous for his ability to mutter under his breath (somewhat like Yosemite Sam), while making himself perfectly clear.
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> Dick was fantastically talented, brilliant, and extremely practical.
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> His list of professional accomplishments are way to long to list here. But suffice it to say, he will be missed by many.
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> I count myself very lucky to have been his friend.
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> So, I propose a toast, and raise a glass of something that Dick would not drink (I prefer scotch, Dick would have milk and cookies) to a fantastic man, a friend, a mentor, a sounding board, a human encyclopedia… and someone whom I will miss very much.
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> -To Dick!
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Jon Ares
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