Tom's Wake

[Eric Scoles]

Just got the following from Alicia: "The wake will be from 1 to 4 pm Saturday at Boldos with food and drink.  Well be taking up a collection to cover an obituary for him....We'll have a photo of him for folks to sign. We'll give that to his stepmother with his ashes when she comes to town next from Florida."

I'll post on the Facebook page; please pass this along to anyone you know who knew Tom and would like to join us in remembering him. 

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Pat Rapp <pat...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the quote, Eric -- I could actually hear Tom's voice when I read that.
: )

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Eric Scoles <erics...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tom Whittemore passed away in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday. He'd been sick for a long time, getting sicker, mostly as complications of his diabetes. We haven't had a message to the group about this; the news has been passing around since very early yesterday, but I wanted to make sure everyone in the group heard. 

For those who didn't know him, Tom was a founding board member of R-SPEC, and an old D-309er from way back. A lot of us knew Tom, some of us very well; I can't count myself in the latter category, but I liked and respected him very much. When I first met him through R-SPEC, he struck me quickly as a person of keen insight, and nowhere more so than where story structure is concerned. And he could be blunt, but was seldom rude. Anyone who's had him read their work has probably heard him say something like, "that's a really nice scene but it serves absolutely no purpose there. I think you should cut it." And he'd usually be right. In our writing group, we started recording our stories for his benefit (for some time, his vision has been prohibitively poor for long form reading), and we all found the exercise useful as it forced us to hear the work in new ways. 

Someone will post a note here & on Facebook when we know more about his memorial service, which will probably be this weekend, possibly at Alex White's shop on Monroe Avenue ('Boldo's Armory'), near the loop. 

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