Eric
I think this is a really good suggestion. As you will have heard, Eddie Killoran died earlier this month. I've been wondering whether there shouldn't be an old friends page on the new EFTC website to commemorate people like this. I'll talk to the EFTC Board about it.
Rowdy Yates
Senior Research Fellow
Scottish Addiction Studies
Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology Section
Department of Applied Social Science
University of Stirling
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From: Therapeutic Communities on behalf of Eric Broekaert
Reply To: Therapeutic Communities
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:34 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Donald Ottenburg
Quoting Rowdy Yates <[log in to unmask]>:
Dear All
As you all know there was at the end of 2005
a tribute to Don published in the journal of therapeutic communities. It covers
a lot of Don's life and scientific work. Why not to put the text on the websites
of EFTC and Scottisch Addiction. I guess it cannot to difficult to get the
publication rights from the journal.
Best regards
Eric
> Some of you will remember that when Donald died, i organised an on-line
> "Book" of Rememberance:
>
> http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/DRUGS/donaldtributes.php
>
> http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/DRUGS/don.php
>
> Obviously, that was some time ago and I had been thinking about writing to
> the list and asking people what they thought we should do with the collected
> memories and messages. But, as with many of the things I think about doing,
> I have never got around to it! Anthony Slater and Eric Broekaert and I did
> discuss a short monograph on Donald's life and work but nothing really
> happened, it was not clear where the funding would come from and obviously we
> are all busy. One other option which I would be happy to put together would
> be some sort of downloadable tribute document (or a CD, but that would
> involve costs for the materials and for the postage). If we went for a
> downloadable document, it could be included on the new EFTC website (we are
> in the process of overhauling and redesigning the old EFTC website - so it
> could be just added to the list of tasks.
>
> I would be interested to hear what you all think. Don was a major figure in
> the development of addiction TCs and in the establishment and growth of the
> EFTC. It would not feel right to simple dispose of all the thoughts people
> have submitted about him - though obviously, the "book" cannot stay there for
> ever.
>
> What spurred me to writing about this to the list was the message below which
> i recently received. I will add it to the "book" when I get time but I
> recognise that many list members would be unlikely to see it because the site
> has been untouched for over a year now.
>
> Here is the message I received:
>
> My memories of Don: It surely saddens me to say that I, as well as several of
> my friends,such as Jeff Powell and Charley Johnson have grown so far away
> from our Eagleville family and it has taken us so, so, long to learn of our
> "Great White Father's" death. Don Ottenberg continues to be our inspiration
> in spirit and in our memories forever. He was our teacher about life. He was
> even my mentor during the start of the Eagleville-Lincoln Master's degree
> days. Oh, how I remember the old days when I was in a marthron with Don that
> lasted for 85 hours. He was sensitive, caring, loving and a giant pillar to
> lean on during the emotional storms in the group. We love you Don. You are
> our hero.
>
> Theodora "Teddy" Cox
>
> Retired Social Worker
> Philadelphia, PA, USA
>
>
>
> Rowdy Yates
> Senior Research Fellow
> Scottish Addiction Studies
> Department of Applied Social Science
> University of Stirling
>
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