Date:	Sat, 30 Sep 1995 10:10:18 -1000
From:	fd@islandnet.com (Paul Ingraham)
Message-Id: <44k87a$bkk@sanjuan.amtsgi.bc.ca>
Organization: Final Draft: Paul Ingraham Writing & DTP Services
Subject: AKA Founder Robert Ingraham Dies

My Grandfather, Robert Ingraham, the founder of the American Kiteflyers
Association, died of cancer last week.  He was 84.

I grew up very far away from my grandfather, and I did not know him
well.  It is entirely possible that some of you knew him much better
than I did.  But as the sole wired member of the Ingraham clan, it has
fallen to me to issue the news on the Internet.

What I do know about my grandfather I learned to late.  Only very
recently did I discover how much alike we are, how obviously connected
by blood and tradition.  I know that I once found his name in a book in
a library, when I was a child, and that I was endlessly impressed.  And
I know that he was indeed a kiteflyer and maker of the highest order:
to remember him by, I own a spectacular hand-made delta.  I don't know
much about kites, but I know this one is big, beautiful, and
practically flies itself...

A memorial kite-fly will be held in Silver City, NM, Tuesday, November
3.  I am short on details.  For more information, you can phone my
father, Bob Ingraham, at 604-962-2094.

Paul

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Paul Ingraham
fd@islandnet.com
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