HELLO AUDIOGON! So enjoyed meeting many of you in Denver at the recent RMAF. Getting together with Pat and Barb was my main reason for coming out and all the nice new people I met and great music was just icing on the cake!
Pat so loves the music and the related equipment to maximize enjoyment. He shares this with his family and his friends freely and often. He has done this for all of the 30 years I've known him since college. As we went from room to room enjoying music and auditioning systems at the RMAF we noticed the demographic of the presenters and the attendees. The age demographic we felt was the most dramatic. Having more young people enjoy high end audio seemed a compelling goal and we agreed it would be good for everybody.
On the plane on the way back home to Omaha I had a flash idea.
I ran it by Pat the other day and he felt touched and comfortable with the idea so here goes:
Let those of us members of the Audiogon and other listening communities pull together and pool our resources both personal and commercial to set up a yearly scholarship in Pat's name.The scholarship offering will be for a selected person(s) under 30 years old to have their tranportation, lodging and admission to the RMAF or other similar event paid for by the foundation. The selection process could be done any number of ways and the number of awards and nominations could vary greatly. The criteria should be simple and forthright. By this posting I hope to start a chain reaction involving many others much more knowledgable than I about the logistics and specifics. I think it is a worthy idea and Pat did as well.
I welcome any and all responses to this query via this forum for all to see, or at my personal email jmccabe1@prodigy.net
Warm Regards to All,
Ampster (Jeff McCabe)
Pat so loves the music and the related equipment to maximize enjoyment. He shares this with his family and his friends freely and often. He has done this for all of the 30 years I've known him since college. As we went from room to room enjoying music and auditioning systems at the RMAF we noticed the demographic of the presenters and the attendees. The age demographic we felt was the most dramatic. Having more young people enjoy high end audio seemed a compelling goal and we agreed it would be good for everybody.
On the plane on the way back home to Omaha I had a flash idea.
I ran it by Pat the other day and he felt touched and comfortable with the idea so here goes:
Let those of us members of the Audiogon and other listening communities pull together and pool our resources both personal and commercial to set up a yearly scholarship in Pat's name.The scholarship offering will be for a selected person(s) under 30 years old to have their tranportation, lodging and admission to the RMAF or other similar event paid for by the foundation. The selection process could be done any number of ways and the number of awards and nominations could vary greatly. The criteria should be simple and forthright. By this posting I hope to start a chain reaction involving many others much more knowledgable than I about the logistics and specifics. I think it is a worthy idea and Pat did as well.
I welcome any and all responses to this query via this forum for all to see, or at my personal email jmccabe1@prodigy.net
Warm Regards to All,
Ampster (Jeff McCabe)
