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Re: Rav Raklur - this is interesting



Of course, Larry, wouldn't you????

At 04:00 PM 3/20/00 -0900, you wrote:
>Would you be ready to defend the state archives collection with a pistol?
>
>Regards,
>Larry
>
>At 11:53 AM 3/20/00 -0600, Pinkler wrote:
>
>Rav Raklur died in Wewak, Papau New Guinea.  I have only just heard the
>news, though he passed away in early February.
>
>I expect most of you have never heard of Rav Raklur.   He was for most of
>his life a minor official in the New Guinea government, living and working
>in Port Moresby.
>
>In the late 1970s when the Mantong Conspiracy managed to briefly capture
>parts of Port Moresby, Raklur loaded a huge volume of archival material
>into a truck and braving both rebels and the torrential monsoon rains drove
>the truck literally hundreds of miles to safety in the highlands of inland
>New Guinea.
>
>There, armed with only a pistol, Raklur managed to secure the documentary
>heritage of the country.  Government troops soon pushed the Mantong
>Conspiracy out of Port Moresby and back into the hills.  Soon after Raklur
>drove the records back to the capital. For five or so years after that
>Raklur served as the defacto national archivist and set up the first real
>records management and archives program in the country.
>
>Rav Raklur was 87 years old and had been preceded in death by his wife Lona
>some years before.  He is survived by three sons, and many grand and great
>grandchildren.
>
>Those of us who had the pleasure of meeting Rav Raklur on one of his
>infrequent trips to the United States will remember his grace, his pleasant
>disposition and his keen intelligence.  Though he had been retired for
>about fifteen years, the archival world has lost an important citizen.  If
>Raklur was not an archival giant - and he would have been the first to
>point that out - he was one of the important selfless professionals without
>whom the profession would collapse.
>
>Rest in peace friend.
>Gerald Pinkler
>Kittner & Hough Records Consolidation
>San Francisco, California
>
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