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Subject: RE: Gary North has passed.
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 15:32:02 -0500
From: Coombs, James <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
Indeed, Gary North was unique. Didn't he invent the North Arrow?
Seriously, he personally helped me establish my library as a USGS map
depository when I started my career here 33 years ago. He loved to take
photographs and shared his slide shows with us at conferences. His
adventures in Russia in 1991 are legendary.
Jim Coombs
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From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American
Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 12:50 PM
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Subject: Re: Gary North has passed.
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Subject: Re: Gary North has passed.
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 13:26:21 -0400
From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Gary was a "one of a kind" in the federal government - someone who
understood there was a world outside of the government and Washington.
He recognized the value of libraries to enhance and disseminate
cartographic information and he went out of his way to include libraries
as partners and was a real friend of map libraries and a great friend to
many map librarians. He was a good man and will be missed but we will
still have the many memories of someone who cared.
David Cobb
On Nov 1, 2013 8:39 AM, "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society
Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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Subject: FW: Gary North has passed.
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 13:35:05 +0000
From: MCQUILLAN, DAVID <[log in to unmask]
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To: Angie Cope ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
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Worked with Gary in IFLA and was trapped with him in Moscow during the
IFLA Annual Conference and the Russian Coup in August 1991.
David C. McQuillan
Former chair
IFLA Geography and Map Libraries Section
*From:*Gary North [mailto:[log in to unmask]
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*Sent:* Thursday, October 31, 2013 3:15 PM
*To:*
*Subject:* Gary North has passed.
Dear Friends and Family,
Gary North died on Tuesday morning, October 29, at approximately 4 am.
He ended up in the hospital on Monday for treatment to a couple of
wounds on his leg. His heart stopped, in his sleep. Doctors came
rushing in but he did not survive. Gary suffered much in the past
month
and a half since his heart failed him at the end of August, but at
that
point, he was revived.
A service will be held this Saturday, November 2, 2013
Colonial Funeral Home
201 Edwards Ferry Road NE
Leesburg, VA 20176
See
http://www.__colonialfuneralhome.com/fh/__obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=__2301697&fh_id=11079
<http://www.colonialfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2301697&fh_id=11079>
10;30 am - 11 am Viewing for family members
11am - 1 pm Viewing for friends. Open Gathering.
1 pmService Begins
For anyone who would like to speak, please provide Pastor Barney your
name. He will arrive at 12 pm. We welcome anyone who would like to
speak. (or even if you decide in the moment.)
Gary will be greatly missed and was greatly loved, as each of us know
what a gem of a gentleman/human being he was.
If you received this email, I found your email address on his
computer,
via his recent correspondences. (apologies if you receive duplicate
emails.)
Please spread the word to anyone you know who knew him.
Kindest regards,
Natalie Danchenko
Gary North's step daughter
mobile 415-720-0629 <tel:415-720-0629>
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Ps. If anyone had an unfinished business with Gary, work or
otherwise,
please call me in the next few weeks.
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