<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dick Archer, Technical Director at Cornell University, mentor to many of us, and longtime contributor to the list has passed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He was recently moved into Hospice, and surrounded by family at the time of his passing.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He had been battling liver cancer (ironic, as he never touched drugs or alcohol) for the last year and change.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dick was fantastically talented, brilliant, and extremely practical.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His list of professional accomplishments are way to long to list here. But suffice it to say, he will be missed by many.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I count myself very lucky to have been his friend.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">-To Dick!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Ford Sellers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Senior Product Development Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">CHAUVET Professional, ChamSys and ILUMINARC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">5200 NW 108th Ave., Sunrise, FL 33351<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Main Office: +1.954.577.4455 | 800-762-1084<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><a href="mailto:fsellers@chauvetlighting.com"><span style="color:blue">fsellers@chauvetlighting.com</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><a href="http://www.chauvetlighting.com/"><span style="color:blue">www.chauvetlighting.com</span></a> |
<a href="http://www.iluminarc.com/"><span style="color:blue">www.iluminarc.com</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>