I receive e-mails from contributors to this column asking me to resurrect my idea of a meet and greet and presentation ceremony of letter writers. The vox populi of writers indicate that we persuade the publisher/ editor of AV and GS to organnise the ceremony early in the new year.
I am glad that a couple of contributors to this column who were initially opposed to my suggestion of a get together of letter writers and presentation ceremony – my cause celebre - and viewed it with contumely, have come round to my view of an award ceremony to celebrate the prolific letter writers. Others will soon jump on the band wagon and also ask for a bite at the cherry.
As a number of people have intimated, most of us are getting old in the tooth and may want to put up our feet near the fire place and admire the certificate and a trophy on the mantle piece which could bring back the fond memories of their long association with AV and GS – as subscribers and contributors. They could reminisce about the occasion when they met their fellow letter writers and think of their own magnum opus which may come up in conversation with others.
Such ceremony could be unique of its kind, and with the expertise of ABPL in organising award cereminies, it should not take much effort on its part to organise the event which could become a milestone in ABPL’s history.
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford
