[TheForge] Tim Ryan

Tue Mar 12 06:58:01 2002

I will second the motion.

Bobby Hart

At 07:30 PM 3/11/02 -0600, you wrote:
> I have never met Jerry Kagele, so I can't make any comments about his
>motivation or interactions with the other members of the ABANA board, but I
>have  known Tim Ryan for about 20 years and am confident that he is too much
>of a gentleman to trade verbal barbs in the public forum.
>I also would like to point out to the newer members of ABANA ,and other
>folks on the forge, that  Tim has served as a volunteer auctioneer  at ABANA
>National and associate (chapter) conferences for many years. In this
>capacity he has raised the huge amounts of money that have been instrumental
>in funding the tremendous resurgence of blacksmithing in recent years.
>I also believe that Tim's differences with  some of  ABANA's board of
>directors were motivated by his objections to questionable decisions and
>policies by the board in recent years.
>Chuck
>
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