[Dialogue] {Spam?} RE: [Oe List ...] Trashing the Archives

[Patricia Tuecke]

Dear Colleagues,

This message is addressing thoughts I've had - some in the past days as this
part of the saga unfolds, some I realize for years - about the "hard copy"
of our common memory.

1.  David, when I hear the details of your experience in trying to care  -
in many ways - the JWM & the Global Archives, I am appalled. I know of the
Trainers Network experience with the Board, but, not all at this detail.
True to our spirit of collegiality, I could have if I had chosen to be on
all the conference calls. Thanks for letting us know this part of the story.
Thanks, also, for the remarkable and passionate care you've taken on our
behalf in this.

2.  I remember the first time I had the thought, "someday we will probably
want some of these files." I was a 2nd prior in Rapid City House. My
assignment to the San Jose House had come from the Order Council in the late
summer of 1972. Up to this point we had been moving our worldly goods we had
left across country in moving vans & station wagons. But the word had come
that it was just 2 suitcases from now on. I, being an inveterate keeper of
information, had accumulated lots of files from 1967 on. I was piling them
up in the garage prior to disposing of them. They made quite a large pile.
Thankfully I saved a few. 

3.  I still have some files, though not many, thinking as many of us may
have, the archives are in Chicago. As Marilyn wrote, we have the common
memory & history in our file cabinets & in our being. I'm willing to be part
of this venture. I have some models in my office files. I have a box more
stuff in storage. Some we would consider pertinent; some probably not. I've
noticed that people related to hard copy stuff differently. For some, being
a more of a historian, these things were important & so we filed away.
Others think they are not high on the priority list and dispose of them
without a pang. Many of these two types are married to each other. :-) Dan,
for instance, has moved us three times from one international post to
another. He, being of the second leaning, never even thought to bring or at
least copy, all my LENS files and network notes from my years of working
with that program in many countries. I had many pangs over that & he never
remembered. Go figure.

4.  Here's a piece I've wished for. With today's electronics, it's not out
of the question. Over the past few years as I was thinking about or telling
"those were the days" stories with colleagues, I can't recall all the people
or, if I can recall the face and shared experiences, the names of those with
whom I've worked. I've often wished I had all the assignment sheets from our
years of work. Remember those lavender mimeographed pages? Yesterday, the
familiar thought came to me again as I pondered the archive discussion. I
bet we could come close to re-creating such a list. If we can remember what
houses there were & when & who was there. Together we could fill in some
memory blanks. 

5.  Now, even if this isn't high on the list of what could be saved for
posterity, this could be fun! And spark lots of stories for the Repository.
To steal a line from Capital One, "What's in your wallet? Or, the thought
hits me, maybe ICA Canada has this or a lot of it in their Toronto files.
One thing this will take is for us to get in the habit of regularly checking
the Repository. If a file or section (I haven't checked lately, you can
tell) could be set up for the Assignment project, people could fill in what
they remember - when/if they remember - if it works like that. What do you
think?

Now I need to get to work.

Pat


Patricia R. Tuecke
Sierra Circle Consulting
775-333-6998   ptuecke at charter.net



-----Original Message-----
From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Wayne Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:21 PM
To: Colleague Dialogue
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] [Oe List ...] Trashing the Archives


We have files from ICA Canada and OE in Canada. We also have integrated
extensive files from Greg Harris and Ken Fisher.  We go to them primarily
for use in course design and things like that. We have them in our basement.
Anyone is welcome - anytime.

\\/

"David Dunn"  wrote:

> It seems important to notice, however, that there is a third kind of
global
> archives that has existed for many years and a fourth that is growing. All
> of us have greater or lesser archives of our own. There is even a catalog
> scheme created during the '90s that has been used in at least one
> location--ICA Toronto--to categorize the entire archival collection of the
> Toronto office. In a sense, taken collectively, we all represent a kind of
> dispersed, virtual global archive.


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Wayne Nelson - ICA Associates Inc
416-691-2316 - http://ica-associates.ca




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