TIGHAR
Amelia Earhart Search Forum => General discussion => Topic started by: Chris Johnson on September 02, 2013, 01:05:48 AM
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AE's Step Son Dies (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/amelia-earharts-stepson-a-boynton-beach-retiree-ha/nZjXd/)
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"In March 2012, investigators said they found what might be the aircraft’s landing gear protruding from waters off a remote island of Nikumaroro.
Stumbled across this line in the article. Makes it sound like Tighar actually found the landing gear last year. I can almost see the jumbled mass of metal and rubber sitting in a corner of Ric's office. Why can't reporters ever get it right?
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It was my privilege to know George. He was TIGHAR member #0741, joining in 1989 and renewing faithfully for the next 23 years. Despite the impression created by the woefully inaccurate obituary, George Putnam was a generous supporter of TIGHAR's work. He was very much a traditionalist and we corresponded by hand-written notes as was his preference. I never trumpeted our relationship. It would have been an abuse of his privacy and, as Paul McCartney once told me, it's tacky to drop names. ::)
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It was my privilege to know George. He was TIGHAR member #0741, joining in 1989 and renewing faithfully for the next 23 years. Despite the impression created by the woefully inaccurate obituary, George Putnam was a generous supporter of TIGHAR's work. He was very much a traditionalist and we corresponded by hand-written notes as was his preference. I never trumpeted our relationship. It would have been an abuse of his privacy and, as Paul McCartney once told me, it's tacky to drop names. ::)
Thanks Ric. That's very interesting. A bit "tacky" perhaps, but very interesting. 8)
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He sounds like he was a wonderful gentleman. My prayers and sympathies to his family during this sad time.
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It would have been an abuse of his privacy and, as Paul McCartney once told me, it's tacky to drop names. ::)
Good to see that you've still got your sense of humour despite the current trials and tribulations...
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Wow, Ric, that's a great story. Glad to hear GPP Jr. was on board with TIGHAR. Not asking you to reveal anything you may know, but I wonder if he was close to AE, and if the Earhart Project may have ben a source of comfort for him. (To Ameliapedia!)
Seeing the picures in the OP's link is sobering- a young boy in one, an old man in the other. And Amelia missed all that time with him, so very sad. I do hope they're together now in a place more remote, but more pleasant, than Gardner Island.
BTW, love the joke, Ric! :P
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Not asking you to reveal anything you may know, but I wonder if he was close to AE, and if the Earhart Project may have ben a source of comfort for him.
He was a little kid. Both he and his older brother David seem to have liked their father's new wife. George appreciated that the Earhart Project is a serious science-based effort to solve the mystery.
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Agree Wayne! Love Ric's sense of humor. And as you say, especially with all that is going on.
Great Story! And really nice to know he was a supporter and a believer.