[ANSTHRLD] Who to Protect? A 1.0 and ABPS version

[Kazimierz Złowieszczy]

Well said.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Bob Wade <logiosophia at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Discussions periodically arise on lists such as this concerning a number of
> hot button issues.  Lately [ANSTHRLD] has seen a resurgence of one of them
> ... should we continue to protect heraldic registrations of people who are
> no longer active in the SCA?
>
> IMO we have not reached a need for The Next Modest Proposal.  As others
> have pointed out, there's still plenty of good armory available waiting for
> the right person to discover that one of them illustrates how they perceive
> themselves.  Nonetheless, a discussion of what may need to be done in the
> future can be a good thing.
>
> The original Modest Proposal had the various Kingdoms submit lists of what
> non-Society armory each felt was important to protect.  I expect The Next
> Modest Proposal to do the same.  If so, what standards should be used to see
> if someone who is deceased, inactive, or a non-member is "important enough
> to protect?"
>
> A 1.0 answer: IMO anyone who is on an OP deserves the privelege of the
> Society's full protection.
>
> ABPS Version ...
>
> A couple of decades ago I was visiting a Kingdom I used to live in.  At the
> Event a Laurel came up to thank me for convincing him that period bardic
> pieces could be entertaining.  But the real credit belonged to someone else.
>
> Last year people were posting lists of the 3 people who most influenced how
> they participate in the SCA.  One of mine was a person from the Branch I
> lived in when I joined the Society.  He replaced one of the three reasons I
> joined (Wine, women, and a forum to prove my D&D characters could physically
> do the things I said they were doing) with a desire for research.  Bill was
> a librarian who had a vision of compiling a union bibliography of all the
> books on the Middle Ages in the two public library systems and three major
> universities there.  He became Chronicler so he had a forum to publish it.
> In an era when newsletters were done on mimeograph machines, his ran 50
> pages a month.  By the end of his tenure he had printed only the general
> surveys written in English (Plus a Swahili tanslation of Machiavelli's The
> Prince he snuck in).  He went inactive a few years later with boxes of
> handwritten index cards left unpublished.  That was 30 years
>  ago.  Because his job kept him from travelling to Events, I'm probably one
> of only a handful who remember him.  Through that one bard alone, however,
> he enriched the Society lives of hundreds.
>
> I'd heard the words before in Court, but they first became meaningful to me
> when I saw Guillermo receive his AoA.  "... through diverse efforts to
> enrich Our Realm ... we grant the Right and Dignity of Arms..."
>
> I don't know what most of them are, but every entry in an OP indicates a
> story about someone who influenced others.  Alive or not, active or not,
> members or not, we are all enriched by each entry through their recipient's
> effect on others.  They are all important.  IMO they have all earned the
> privelege of the Society's full protection of their Armory and Names.
>
> Tostig
>
>
>
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