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Re: Rav Raklur - this is interesting



Personally I wouldn't be comfortable with anything less than a M-16.  In
1842 the citizens of Austin used artillery--a 6-pounder as I recall.  See
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/mqa2.html

Paul R. Scott
Harris County, Texas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gladi Kulp [SMTP:gladi_kulp@EED.STATE.AK.US]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 7:46 PM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      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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