Re: [IRCA] Many thanks from RCI's Ian McFarland

["R. Colin Newell" <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can forward any belated greetings.

It's an honor living on the same Island as a legend. 

Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC

> On Jul 23, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Rick Lewis <ricklew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Colin,
> I meant to submit my birthday wishes to Ian, but it got past me and it
> shouldn't have. I'll never forget my surprise when I found that RCI's
> recorded schedule for blind users was done by Ian McFarland himself. That
> was a treasure from a man who certainly had plenty on his plate.
> Ian has much to be proud of. To many listeners, he _was_ Canada.
> --
> Rick
> 
> 
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> Newell
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> Subject: [IRCA] Many thanks from RCI's Ian McFarland
> 
> "To all my SWL friends & colleagues,  I can't tell you how much I
> enjoyed reading
> all your birthday wishes & comments that Colin so kindly collected &
> transcribed from all your e-mails.
> 
> For this old man it was a most enjoyable exercise in pure nostalgia.  Thank
> you all so very much!
> 
> There were lots of familiar names on those messages, and of
> course, to be truthful, lots of names that weren't familiar after so many
> years.
> 
> Memory loss is, after all, one of the unfortunate drawbacks
> of getting to the age that people refer to as "elderly"!  I find it hard to
> believe that I retired from RCI over a quarter century ago now, mercifully,
> some years before its impending virtual destruction over the
> next few years.
> 
> I'm just grateful that I was at RCI during almost 25
> years of RCI's heyday.
> 
> I'm also grateful for all the opportunities I had to travel to Europe, the
> U.S. and other parts of Canada to attend a
> variety of SWL gatherings and have the opportunity to talk with so many of
> my listeners.  I'm sure that over my years at RCI I met many times more
> listeners than the rest of RCI staff and management combined.
> 
> Attending all those events, including the three ANARC conventions that were
> hosted by RCI, gave me many useful insights into what our listeners
> liked to hear about, and the determined efforts they made, especially in the
> noisy interference ridden listening environment in Europe, to tune in to my
> SWL Digest program.
> 
> I can't tell you how much that meant to
> me.  Many thanks again for all your wonderful birthday wishes & comments.
> 
> Cheers for now & Good Listening everyone.  Kind regards. Ian.
> 
> "
> 
> -- 
> Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com
> <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> -
> VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada
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