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Burke McCrory
bmccrory at oktax.state.ok.us
Thu Jan 15 10:10:00 PST 1998
At 01:58 AM 1/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-01-14 23:42:32 EST, you write:
>
><< > And a couple of unattached male-types to escort ladies who
> > don't have a lord or who get within 20 or so feet of the
> > Presence and no one has jumped to their aid.
>
> I think the ladies of Ansteorra are more than strong enough
> to get to the foot of the dais without aid!
> >>
>
>I'd have to agree with this. Personally I think escorting is to show
support,
>and should be from a a person who's helped support the award Recipient, and
>perhaps help to encourage and inspire them to do whatever it is they do that
>deems them worthy of recognition. I personally feel that this image is lost
>if just "any random person who happens to be standing nearby" will do. if
>they don't have a lord ( or lady) in attendence,maybe they have special
>friends, and barring that.. maybe they earned it "on their own" and would
>prefer receiving it that way.
> just something to think about,
> Letha/Lonnie/Cricket
> Ffynnon Gath, Ansteorra
I disagree, Yes the ladies of Ansteorra are more than capable of getting
to the dais without aid. BUT, that is a mostly a 20th century perspective.
Ladies in most places in the middle ages would have always been escorted,
to not be would have been scandalous. I think, and will continue to
encourage, that any lady called into the presence to be escorted as a
statement of the high standing that we hold all ladies in.
In Service to the Dream
Sir Burke Kyriell MacDonald
Baron of Wiesenfeuer
Kingdom of Ansteorra
mka Burke McCrory
email: burkemc at ionet.net
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