From
Samuel Ray
®
. . . . . . . . .Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:09:02 -0500
Subject:
Re: Masatsugu asks a favour of you.
Dear
Masatsugu,
I
will look carefully at your drafts in the morning, when my house should be
quiet and free of distractions, unlike the present time, and I will be glad to
try to be of assistance.
Sincerely,
----- Original Message -----
From:
"Masatsugu MINAMI" <VZV03210@nifty.ne.jp>
To: Sam Whitby
Cc: <cmo@mars.dti.ne.jp>
Sent: Sunday,
March 14, 2004 4:19 PM
Subject:
Masatsugu asks a favour of you.
> Dear Sam,
>
> How are you going? I hope
you have endured the recent trial to you.
> The season is also
recovering.
>
> Today I am sorry to trouble
you but I shall ask a favour of you: I
> would be thankful if you
could correct and refine my English
> compositions:
>
> As you know, Bill Sheehan
will visit
> April on the occasion of
the OAA Annual Assembly which will be held at
>
> and French expedition teams),
the OAA decided to express their
> acknowledgments
to Bill Sheehan, Tom Dobbins and Don Parker on their
> prediction
and detection of the
> OAA Medals. In
> each
the certificate of citation or something like that. They are of
> course written in Japanese,
and so they asked me to translate the
> commendations
to English. The following are my drafts. I would be
> obliged to you if you could
correct and improve them (to make them
> look more dignified).
>
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>
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> I must finish this by 19
March, and so I hope you will have a time to
> look at these in a few
days.
>
> Looking forward to your
kindness and pertinent reply,
> With best wishes
>
> Masatsugu
>
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. . . . . . . .Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:40:41 -0500
Subject:
Re: Masatsugu asks a favour of you.
P.S.
I have re-written your compositions, and I will look at them again in the
morning. If they please my eyes after a
good night's sleep, I will email them to you then.
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. . . . . . . .Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:49:09 -0500
Subject:
Re: Masatsugu asks a favour of you.
Dear
Masatsugu,
This
morning I emailed my re-written versions of the commendations below. Please
read what I have written and let me know if you have any worries that I may
have changed the meaning of what you wanted to say. If you have any questions
or comments or criticisms, please let me know, and I will try to respond
promptly. Also, if you have trouble opening the Word document, I will send it
another way.
I admire Dobbins, Parker, and Sheehan very
much, and I am very glad to see them getting some recognition. The Japanese
Mars observers from the 1950s deserve their recognition too.
Sincerely,
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. . . . . . . .Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:37:21 -0500
Subject:
Re: RE:Bill S
Dear
Masatsugu,
I
would say OAA Certificate of Commendation.
I should have asked this already, but what exactly will be awarded to the three
men? Will there be an honorific document or a document and a medal? Please let
me know, for it May require some changes in what I emailed earlier. Even if
there are no substantive changes needed in what I wrote, "Medal"
should be capitalized in all instances if capitalized at all, and I think I let
one lower case use slip by.
This
afternoon I will work at the hospital, so it will be the wee hours of the
morning before I can check on this matter again, but it will be my honor and
pleasure to do so.
----- Original Message -----
From:
"Masatsugu MINAMI" <VZV03210@nifty.ne.jp>
To: Sam Whitby
Cc: <cmo@mars.dti.ne.jp>
Sent: Tuesday,
March 16, 2004 2:20 AM
Subject: RE. Bill
S
>Dear
Sam,
>Thank
you very much for your prompt reply, as well as for your labour,
>and
I am surely satisfied with your refinement. I think these will be
>employed
in the final drafts.
>
>Just
I ask again whether our title "Certificate of the OAA
>Commendation"
is OK or not. Are there any other ideas of more
>plausible
title just like "Citation for the OAA Award" or something
>like
that?
>
>We
shall not let any of three know our plan to commend them until the
>day before.
We will take some pictures of the commendation ceremony at
>
>Internet
page.
>
>With
best wishes,
>
>Masatsugu
>
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. . . . . . . .Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:26:52 -0500
Subject:
Re: RE:Re: RE:Bill S
Dear
Masatsugu,
Thank
you for your explanation, which confirms that I understood the plans to honor
Dobbins, Sheehan, and Parker. I am sure that they will all be grateful for the
recognition from your esteemed association.
I
am home alone this morning, preparing to work on my genealogical research. It
has been raining very hard here, and, farther north, snow has been falling.
We
are slowly making the adjustment to the death of my mother. My father seems to
be dealing with his grief better than expected. It is strange how sometimes
life throws curve balls at you. All fall, my father was very ill, unable even
to feed himself. My wife and I had been making plans to help support my mother,
in the event that Daddy died. He made a miraculous recovery, then
about two months later, Mother unexpectedly passed away.
Anyway,
we are sometimes sad but moving on with our lives, with many happy memories.
Sincerely,
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. . . . . . . .Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:34:39 -0500
Subject:
MGI PhotoSuite 4 digital photo
I
am sending you one of our favorite photographs of David, Tyler, my mother, and
yours truly. I would prefer that you not share this with the CMO, for it has
nothing to do with Mars, just with my sentimentality.
This
digital photograph was sent using PhotoSuite 4.
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. . . . . . . .Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:40:30 -0500
Subject:
Fw: RE:Re:
RE:Bill S
I
forgot to mention some good news: David has been awarded a merit (academic)
scholarship to study computer science at
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. . . . . . . .Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:52:56 -0500
Subject:
Re: RE:Fw: RE:Re: RE:Bill S
Dear
Masatsugu,
Thank
you for the fine photograph. The ume blossom is beautiful.
1,123 drawings, that is just amazing! It must be a record number.
Sam