[Dialogue] Fwd: Vance

[Sandra Rafos]

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> From: "Robert Rafos" <rafos at sympatico.ca>
> Date: November 9, 2005 9:08:14 PM EST
> To: "Sandra L. Rafos" <rafos at interlog.com>
> Subject: Vance
>
> It has been good to read all of the testimonials to Vance and Sandra 
> and I want to add our memory.  Back in 1969/70 we joined with Charles 
> Lingo, Vance, Ray Spencer, Jonathan and Janeen Barker and Carol and 
> George Walters on a 3 month trek in India/Sri Lanka and Pakistan.  
> This was a follow up to the Singapore ITI and was intended to be a 
> teaching trek of RS-1/PLC/RSIIIA and Imaginal Ed.  The leader was 
> Charles, who was often in dispute with Vance. 
>  
> For Sandra and I, we were extremely green relative to world travel, as 
> we had never been out of the Eastern half of the US.  Often the team 
> was split into three groups and we were frequently paired up with 
> Vance for extended periods of time and travel.  He took us under his 
> wing and helped us through the new cultures and customs with insight 
> and a sense of adventure.  Like Pat Tuecke, we marveled at his 
> colorful board work in any lecture that he was giving.  He was 
> continuously on the prowl in the most unusual places for a new broom 
> to add to his collection. 
>  
> We traveled by bus, plane and train from the Himalayas to the Equator 
> and we always felt cared for and nurtured. 
>  
> His strongest craving revealed itself as we spent several very hot 
> days in Poona, attempting to set up courses or find illusive graduates 
> of the ITI.  Each evening we would go to dinner at the same restaurant 
> next to the hostel we were staying in.  Each evening Vance would order 
> a Coke with a large glass of iiiice.  He really knew how to exaggerate 
> the word ice.  Each evening the waiter would give the Indian head 
> shake of understanding, and return with a glass of warm Coke with one 
> rapidly melting lone ice cube.
> He preserved but always got the same result, and it added to the 
> evenings entertainment. 
>  
> Vance, you will be missed but not forgotten. 
>  
> Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
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