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McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage

Help the University of Georgia select the next winner of the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage.

 

This year's medal was awarded to four journalists at the center of the Chauncey Bailey Project. The year before, to Jerry Mitchell, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reporter who endured death threats as he helped bring civil rights-era killers to justice.

 

Here's how you can help: Nominate one or more journalists for the 2011 medal. The criteria is simple:  The medal honors a working U.S. journalist whose career has exemplified journalistic courage.

 

Please send your nominations to Professor John F. Greenman at jgreenma@uga.edu. Tell him the journalist's name, where the journalist works, how to contact the journalist, and why you think the journalist is worthy of this honor.  A few sentences are all we need for now.

 

For more information, go to www.grady.uga.edu/mcgill.  Click on Medal.

 

Nomination deadline is December 15.

 

Upcoming Contest Deadlines

Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons

Presented by:  National Press Foundation

Description: Honors work that exhibits power to influence public opinion, plus good drawing and striking effect.

Requirements: Open to editorial cartoonists of newspapers and magazines for work published between September 1, 2010 to September 1, 2011. Send 5 cartoons, brief bio and letter of support from an editor or supervisor.

Prize: $2,500 and an engraved crystal vase

Deadline: Early October 2011

Rules and entry form: nationalpress.org/awards/detail/clifford_k._james_t._berryman_award_for_editorial_cartoons/

Send entries to: Berryman Award, National Press Foundation, 1211 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 310, Washington, D.C. 20036

For more information: kerry@nationalpress.org, 202/663-7282.

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The Herblock Prize

Presented by:  Herb Block Foundation

Description: For distinguished examples of editorial cartooning with themes of defending basic freedoms, combating all forms of discrimination and prejudice, and improving the condition of the poor and underprivileged

Requirements: Open to work published in 2010 in daily or weekly newspapers or magazines in the U.S. or its territories, including US editions of foreign publications. Submit no more than 20 or fewer than 10 copies. Include bio and photo.

Entry fee: waived

Prize: $15,000 and a sterling silver trophy designed by Tiffany & Co.

Deadline: February 1, 2011

Rules and entry form: herbblockfoundation.org

Send entries to: The Herb Block Foundation, 1730 M Street, Suite 901, Washington D.C. NW 20036

For more information: info@herbblock.org, 202/223-8801

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The Grambs Aronson Award for Cartooning With a Conscience

Presented by:  Hunter College Department of Film & Media Studies and an Awards Committee of cartoonists, graphic artists, journalists and media observers.

Description: Recognizes satiric graphic art that shows distinction in some combination of the following: creative mastery of artistic technique; coherent, compassionate social vision; inventive comic narrative; innocation in forms or media of cartooning. Open to editorial cartooning and graphic topical satire, including animation.

Requirements: Individuals should submit a portfolio with ten pieces maximum, plus a personal/professional statement (300 words maximum). Entries should have appeared in print or digital media during 2010.

Entry fee: $30 for staff, for-profit and syndicated artists; $15 non-profit publications and freelancers

Deadline: Jan. 14, 2011

Rules and entry form: brie.hunter.cuny.edu/aronson

Send entries to: Submit work online; mail fee, statement and form to Carto0oning With a Conscience, c/o Peter Parisi, Department of Film & Media Studies, Room 433, North Building, Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021

For more information: pparisi@hunter.cuny.edu; 212/772-5041 or 772-4949

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National Headliner Awards

Presented by:  Press Club of Atlantic City

Requirements: Headliner competition is open to all material appearing in a paid-circulation publication or broadcast in the United States in 2010. Proof of publication is required. There is no limit on the number of entries that may be submitted.

Entry fee: $75

Deadline: January 19, 2011

Rules and entry form: headlinerawards.com

Send entries to: National Headliner Awards, P.O. Box 239, Northfield, NJ 08225-0239

For more information: info@headlinerawards.com, 609/927-0445

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National Journalism Awards

Presented by:  Scripps Howard Foundation

Description: Judges will consider artistic ability, creativity, range of topics or diversity of ideas and editorial quality.

Requirements: Open to newspaper, syndicate, online news site or wire service cartoonists for work published in 2010. Submit 6-12 cartoons.

Entry fee: $50

Prize: $10,000 and a trophy

Deadline: January 31, 2011

Rules and entry form: scripps.com/foundation/programs/nja/nja.html

Send entries to: National Journalism Awards, Scripps Howard Foundation, 312 Walnut Street, 28th Floor, Cincinnati, OH 45202-4067

For more information: sue.porter@scripps.com, 888/888-3000, ext. 3030

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The Pulitzer Prize

Description: Awarded for a distinguished cartoon or portfolio, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing and pictorial effect, in print or online or both.

Requirements: For work in print or online or both, published during 2010. Please check the Pulitzer web site for new and updated guidelines! Limited to 20 entries. Photo of cartoonist required.

Entry fee: $50

Prize: $10,000 and a certificate

Deadline: February 1, 2010

Rules and entry form: pulitzer.org

Send entries to: Columbia University, 709 Journalism Building, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

For more information: pulitzer@pulitzer.org , 212/ 854-3841

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Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

Presented by:  Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights

Description: The awards honor outstanding cartoons on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy’s concerns including human rights, social justice and the power of individual action.

Requirements: For work published in the United States during 2010. Mail one DVD with a maximum of 15 cartoons. Tear sheets may be requested for finalists.

Entry fee: $75

Prize: $1000 and a bust of Robert F. Kennedy

Deadline: January 31, 2011

Rules and entry form: http://www.rfkcenter.org/2011bookandjournalismawards

Send entries to: Robert F. Kennedy Center, P.O. Box 96814, Washington, DC  20077-7691

For more information: http://www.rfkcenter.org/contact, 202/463-7575

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Sigma Delta Chi Award

Presented by:  Society of Professional Journalists

Requirements: Recognizes an editorial cartoonist published in a newspaper, magazine, newsletter or on-line news site during 2010. PDF or link to online news site, cover letter.

Entry fee: $60 for SPJ members, $100 for nonmembers.

Deadline: February 9, 2011

Rules and entry form: spj.org/a-sdx.asp

Send entries to: Online application only. Send confirmation of application to Sigma Delta Chi Awards, Society of Professional Journalists, 3909 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46208

For more information: awards@spj.org, 317/927-8000

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The Thomas Nast Award

Presented by:  Overseas Press Club

Description: For coverage of international affairs.

Requirements: Work must be published or broadcast in the U.S. or by a U.S.-based company or distributed for an American audience during 2010. Limit of 12 cartoons, accompanied by proof of publication.

Entry fee: $200

Deadline: January 28, 2011

Rules and entry form: opcofamerica.org/news/2010-opc-awards-application

Send entries to: Sonia Fry, Executive Director, Overseas Press Club of America, 40 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036

For more information: 212/626-9220

 

 

STUDENT AWARDS

 

The Charles M. Schulz Award

Presented by:  Scripps Howard Foundation

Requirements: Open to any undergraduate student cartoonist whose cartoons were published in print and/or online in 2010 by a college newspaper, publication or magazine in the United States or its territories. Student must be enrolled in same college for the 2010-2011 school year to be considered. Submit 12 to 20 copies of examples, plus a statement describing your cartooning goals.

Entry fee: none

Prize: $10,000 and a trophy

Deadline: January 31, 2011

Rules and entry form: scripps.com/foundation/programs/nja/nja.html

Send entries to: National Journalism Awards, Scripps Howard Foundation, 312 Walnut Street, 28th Floor, Cincinnati, OH 45202-4067

For more information: sue.porter@scripps.com, 888/888-3000, ext. 3030

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Divest from Terror Contest

Presented by:  StandWithUs with Ed Margolis and Noah Crissey

Description: For cartoons advocating reforms in countries that violate human rights, promote terrorism, and threaten world peace. 

Requirements: Submit up to three cartoons, by email only.  Entering the contest grants reprint rights to StandWithUs.

Entry fee: none

Prize: $500, $250 and $100

Deadline: December 31, 2010

Rules and entry form: standwithus.com/contests

Send entries to: divestcartoons@standwithus.com

For more information: info@standwithus.com, 310/836-6140

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The John Locher Memorial Award

Presented by:  Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC)

Requirements: Open to student cartoonists age 17-24 from U.S., Canada or Mexico. Submit 4 copies each of 4 best samples. (No originals!)

Entry fee: $10

Prize: An all-expense paid trip to the annual convention of the AAEC (usually held in June).

Deadline: March 15, 2011

Rules and entry form: editorialcartoonists.com

Send entries to: AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, 3899 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110

For more information: editorialcartoonists.com/contact.cfm, 717/703-3086

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Mark of Excellence Awards

Presented by:  Society of Professional Journalists

Description: Honoring the best of student editorial cartoons.

Requirements: Open to student cartoonists currently enrolled in college for work published in 2010. Submit PDFs of three pages published in newspapers, magazines or online news sites (links okay in this case), showing the cartoons and publication dates.

Entry fee: $9 SPJ members, $18 non-members.

Deadline: January 26, 2011

Rules and entry form: spj.org/a-moe.asp

Send entries to: spj.org/a-moe.asp. Online application only. Mail checks and entry confirmation form to: Mark of Excellence Awards, Society of Professional Journalists, 3909 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46208

For more information: awards@spj.org, 317-927-8000

 

 

Where Was the "Where's Muhammad" Cartoon?

By Andrew Alexander, Ombudsman

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Washington Post

 "Non Sequitur" is a popular comic that runs daily in about 800 newspapers, including this one. But the "Non Sequitur" cartoon that appeared in last Sunday's Post was not the one creator Wiley Miller drew for that day.

Editors at The Post and many other papers pulled the cartoon and replaced it with one that had appeared previously. They were concerned it might offend and provoke some Post readers, especially Muslims.

Read the rest here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/08/AR2010100804947.html

Muslims speak out in support of threatened ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’ cartoonist Molly Norris

Daily Caller

9/23/10

An Islamic publication — in response to news that the Seattle-based cartoonist responsible for “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” has gone underground due to a fatwa issued calling for her death by an American born cleric living in Yemen — is encouraging American and Canadian Muslims to sign onto a letter in support of free speech.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/23/muslims-speak-out-in-support-of-threatened-everybody-draw-mohammed-day-cartoonist-molly-norris/#ixzz11KGtZ44c

David Horsey weighs in on Draw Mohammad Day

Seattle cartoonist targeted by Islamic extremist

by Dave Horsey

July 12, 2010

http://blog.seattlepi.com/davidhorsey/archives/214339.asp

There is no sane or humane creed that would justify putting Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris on an execution list, but there is little that is sane or humane about radical Islam.

Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has issued a fatwa targeting Norris, declaring the cartoonist's "proper abode is hellfire" because she drew a cartoon last spring that inspired Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. In a just world, Awlaki's proper abode would be a prison cell or a padded room...

Justice, however, has not caught up with this terror guru who has been linked to the failed car bomb in Times Square, the massacre at Fort Hood and a plot to gun down U.S. soldiers here in the American homeland. Instead, he is running free and sending out screeds that condemn those who offend his medieval mythology. As the New York Daily News reported on Sunday:

In an English-language Al Qaeda magazine that calls itself "Inspire," Awlaki damns Norris and eight others for "blasphemous caricatures" of the Prophet Muhammed. The other cartoonists, authors and journalists in Awlaki's cross hairs are Swedish, Dutch and British citizens...

"The medicine prescribed by the Messenger of Allah is the execution of those involved," writes Awlaki, 39, a Las Cruces, N.M.-born American citizen.

"A soul that is so debased, as to enjoy the ridicule of the Messenger of Allah, the mercy to mankind; a soul that is so ungrateful towards its lord that it defames the Prophet of the religion Allah has chosen for his creation does not deserve life, does not deserve to breathe the air."

I exchanged e-mails with Molly Norris a couple of months ago, when her rather benign and whimsical cartoon first started stirring up the extremists. Clearly a gentle soul, she was shaken by the animus her drawing had inspired. Now, she must be terrified, especially since she tried to mollify the zealots by disavowing her cartoon. Apparently, Awlaki had not heard about her expressions of regret. Or he didn't care.

During a conversation on KIRO radio on Monday, I repeated to host Frank Shiers -- who moonlights as a political cartoonist -- what I had said about Holly's cartoon when it first appeared: Lampooning the prophet is not something I would rush to do, simply because it would offend a broad community of decent, peaceful Muslims with whom I do not wish to pick a fight. I'd rather focus my cartoons on creeps like Awlaki who are truly deserving of ridicule. Nevertheless, Holly Norris has every right to draw whatever she wants to draw and express any opinion she may want to express.

But, as I told Shiers, this new threat on Molly's life makes clear the genuine risk we face when we dare to challenge Muslim militants. In most other countries, editorial cartooning has always been a hazardous profession. On a regular basis, cartoonists are threatened, jailed, exiled and even killed. (For specific cases, check out the web site of Cartoonists Rights Network International.) In the United States, cartoonists have thrived under the shelter of the First Amendment, suffering only the nuisance of nasty e-mails or threats of lawsuits. But American cartoonists, like all Americans, now face an enemy that has no tolerance for truly free speech. They believe in only one thing: submission to their idea of god.

I'm not sure most of us have come to grips with the struggle we face. Folks on the right think we can battle these new foes by sending armies across the world and occupying countries, as if this were World War II. Folks on the left want to pretend that if we were just nicer, no one would be mad at us.

The reality is that Western Civilization is being challenged by an ideologically-driven enemy that holds our values in contempt. This enemy is confined between no borders and operates on a subterranean level where armies cannot reach. It will take decades and a broad range of forces to defeat them -- everything from spies and commandos to diplomats and cultural ambassadors.

Frankly, cartoonists will be of minimal use -- although one armchair critic named Eric Lurio would disagree. Writing in the Huffington Post, he disparaged Norris for backing down in the face of death threats. He thinks she should be as brave as Ghandi:

What Molly Norris initially did was the right way to address the problem: fight terrorism with humor, intelligence, and panache. The response was threats of murder. She backed down and apologized to her oppressors. I guess she didn't want to end up like Gandhi.

Terrorism works.

That's laying way too much on Molly. "Panache" isn't going to protect her. She didn't know what she was getting into and does not deserve what has happened.

Now, though, she should understand one thing: We are in a mortal struggle with an elusive, merciless death cult. So far, American leaders have been no more clever than American cartoonists in choosing the ground on which to fight. Nine years after 9/11, it's time to pick our battles more wisely.

In Support of Molly Norris: Pulitzer winner draws line against fatwa

by Michael Cavna

Comic Riffs, 9/22/2010

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/

 

Responding to last week's news that "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" cartoonist Molly Norris had gone into hiding at the FBI's urging, Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has made a statement with her ink-dipped sword.

This week, the Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist took to the drawing board to depict a Norris-like figure going incognito by donning traditional Muslim attire.

"If cartoonists don't stick up for our own right to draw what we think is true and right, no one else will," Wilkinson tells Comic Riffs of her response to the fatwa against Norris. "We need to point out over and and over again that cartoons don't kill people. Fundamentalist religious fanatics with zero sense of humor kill people."

"There is a simple solution," Wilkinson continues. "If humorless 'believers' don't want us drawing tasteless cartoons about their prophets, they shouldn't do tasteless things in the name of those prophets.

"Until then, however, I'm afraid cartoonists just have to keep doing our job."

Seattle Weekly -- to which Norris was a contributor -- reported last week that the Seattle-based illustrator had gone into hiding and changed her name at the guidance of the FBI.

In confirming that report, Comic Riffs has been in contact with Norris last week and this week.

Several months ago, FBI officials alerted Norris to what they were treating as a "very serious threat," according to a report. At that time, Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki said that Norris was a "prime target" for execution and that her "proper abode is hellfire.

Norris drew her "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" cartoon in April in response to Comedy Central's editing of its program "South Park" and the animated show's attempts to depict Muhammad, which some Muslims consider blasphemous. On April 25, shortly after Norris created her "anti-censorship" cartoon, she told Comic Riffs she was retreating from her illustration and that she didn't endorse the campaign.

Shortly after, Wilkinson and more than a dozen fellow Pulitzer-winning cartoonists signed a petition to condemn "the threat" by a pro-jihad group against "South Park" creator Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

Wilkinson also notes that she's "done two cartoons supporting [the] right to build the mosque" and Islamic community center near Ground Zero."

Wilkinson tells Comic Riffs: "I support the entire First Amendment -- freedom of speech and religion."

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On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears From View

Her work won't be in Seattle Weekly anymore, or anywhere else.

By Mark D. Fefer Wednesday, Sep 15 2010

You may have noticed that Molly Norris' comic is not in the paper this week. That's because there is no more Molly.

The gifted artist is alive and well, thankfully. But on the insistence of top security specialists at the FBI, she is, as they put it, "going ghost": moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity. She will no longer be publishing cartoons in our paper or in City Arts magazine, where she has been a regular contributor. She is, in effect, being put into a witness-protection program—except, as she notes, without the government picking up the tab. It's all because of the appalling fatwa issued against her this summer, following her infamous "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" cartoon.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-09-15/news/on-the-advice-of-the-fbi-cartoonist-molly-norris-disappears-from-view/

Letter from the President: AAEC as Torn Rotator Cuff

by Rex Babin, AAEC President

 

Everyone says that you have the most fun at the AAEC convention immediately following the one you put on. Having been heavily involved with two, I can tell you that I am already looking forward to next year in St. Petersburg and I’m reminded of how after hosting Sacramento back in 2005, I was harassed by nominating committees until I finally relented and agreed to be Prez for 2010. Jack, are you paying attention? My editor at the time, David Holwerk signaled his approval by advising, “you might as well just bend over.”

As I noted in Portland, about the time I was assuming the position of AAEC president, I had a pretty major shoulder injury and earlier this year went in for rotator cuff surgery. Through much of my term I was saddled in a sling, firing off nasty emails and letters with one hand – all the while nursing a persistent nagging pain in the shoulder.

Although it was tempting to view this as an apt metaphor for the AAEC presidency, I preferred to look at my subsequent rehab, with its slow, sometimes torturous, but ultimately positive forward progress as the best illustration of not only how I felt my year as president went, but also the AAEC as an organization, and perhaps the profession itself, methodically plodded along.

As a result, this year as your president has been a surprisingly rewarding one for me. Possibly due to my fear of the amount of work involved, I just figured it would be a thankless task, but slowly began to realize that it was indeed a labor of love. It has truly been a privilege and an honor to serve in this organization that has given me so much.

I wish to thank my wife and son, of course; The Sacramento Bee; a very solid and professional AAEC board, with a special mention to Secretary/Treasurer (supposedly for life) Cullum Rogers, who is stepping down (he knew better than to step down a year earlier, because I would have killed him); Minister of Information, JP Trostle; Melinda and Teresa at PNA; The Herb Block Foundation; and Jack Ohman, who was a pleasure to work with on the Portland Convention.

So what about that convention? As you’ll see in the following pages, we adapted. Just as we’re adjusting to the changing landscape in our profession, we demonstrated in Portland that we can forgo the swanky four-star hotels we had become accustomed to and still have the substantive discussions and, more importantly, the good times we always have when we gather together.

Who cares if the hotel bar went out of business just weeks before? Hell, we’ll just take it over and, by golly, that suits us even better. Come to think of it, taking over a hotel bar may be the metaphor I’m searching for. Because if we don’t take charge of our own destiny, bartender is just about the only other job we’re qualified for.

 

 

 

 

Appreciating JP

JP: An Appreciation

 

By V. Cullum Rogers

 

This issue of the Notebook is the first since 2002 that hasn’t been edited by J.P. Trostle, who grabbed the torch from my failing hand eight years ago and passed it on to Stephanie McMillan this summer. (Congratulations, Stephanie; also, good luck.) For those keeping score, that works out to 32 consecutive quarterly issues, a record for a single editor that is not likely to be broken, at least not by a sane person.

J.P. added color to the Notebook, switched to better paper and created a PDF edition with embedded videos, website links and other interactive features; somehow, he found a way to do all this while cutting production costs. He single-handedly designed and laid out the biggest issue ever, the 112-page Golden Notebook, which is virtually an official history of the AAEC’s first fifty years. And he did it on schedule, a talent possessed by few if any of his predecessors.

No tribute like this would be complete without a few sentences designed to make its subject squirm, so here are a few obscure facts that J.P. might wish would stay that way:

* He loves pussycats. There are usually at least a couple lounging around the home he and his wife Maura McLaughlin share in Durham.

* He can grow a full beard, or head of hair, or both, in about two weeks.

* He is the world’s leading expert on Rollerball, a game that doesn’t exist outside science-fiction movies.

* He still has his childhood collection of Wacky Packages stickers.

* Once, when the two of us got lost driving to Columbus, Ohio, and found ourselves in a greasy spoon in some godforsaken town in Kentucky, he heard a waitress ask if I was his father. No one should be subjected to that. (For the record, I’m not.)

* Finally, and most important, his favorite drink is the dry Martini. Order him one next time you see him. He’s earned it.

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The Prez Salutes JP

by Rex Babin

It’s hard to believe back when JP took over as Notebook Editor that the role was basically just that — editing our humble B&W quarterly newsletter.

During JP’s tenure the information business transformed itself with the emergence of the blogosphere and its need for almost constant feeding. JP property recognized the necessity for the AAEC to keep up with that demand. His involvement with our website allowed us the opportunity to post more news items in a more timely manner and with more frequency.

JP took on that challenge and his efforts have helped our organization often control the narrative on issues important to us. Whether they be the AAEC eBay auction or Black Ink Monday, he has been instrumental in moving AAEC initiatives forward and made sure the word got out.

So vital has been his input that he has been informally invited by AAEC presidents past and present to help strategize on virtually every pressing issue facing the AAEC. In the process, he earned his title of Minister of Information (said title which he himself rediscovered hidden in the Association bylaws), or as I refer to him, Special Advisor to the President. Let us thank him for his valuable years of service and wish him luck starting up that lucrative lobbying firm of his.

Cullum Noncarborundum

By R.C. Harvey

 

If the forthcoming election pans out in the way it portends to with regard to your correspondent, I’ll be trying to fill gumboots too large for even my ego—namely, those of one Virginius Cullum Rogers.

I might be able to add and subtract and come up with the same unvarying results as our retiring (but scarcely bashful) Secretary-Treasurer, but his numbers always had more flair than mere math.

I might, given a sharp enough pencil, be able to take notes and write up minutes eventually, but I’ll never be able to deliver a pedestrian truth with the same ponderous pontification Cullum can muster for the most mundane of utterances—punctuating said utterances with loftily raised eyebrow and widened orb, both of which bespeak a comedically irritated disbelief as well as astonishment that anyone could actually countenance what he was saying.

Would that I could.

Think of the continents I could conquer.

This is, after all, the gentleman who once practically put the entire Association membership on the floor laughing as he read off the tally from an unpaid bar tab from the previous evening. He is frequently able — and just as often called upon — to regale an audience with a historic tidbit or a salient quote without consulting his notes, and his 12-year tenure as Secretary-Treasurer is an AAEC record (a fact which I had to go to Cullum himself to confirm, as no one seems to remember a time when he didn’t hold the post.)

That would be enough for us to rejoice in his honor and memory. But there’s more.

No one will match his mastery of the history of our medium and of our club. No one can pluck from the shadows of the ancient past such plums as both entertain and inform our derelict modernity. And like everything he has done—from reading minutes to summarizing our lack of financial status—Cullum so obviously found pleasure in it, in the sheer verbal dexterity of it all.

Fortunately for us, he’ll still be in the audience: even if he’s not in command at the head table, he’ll be in command at the back of the room. And we’ll delight in it, as always.