George Palmer Putnam Jr Dies

[Chris Johnson]

AE's Step Son Dies

[THWWallace]

"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?

[Ric Gillespie]

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.  ::)

[C.W. Herndon]

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)

[Stacy Galloway]

He sounds like he was a wonderful gentleman. My prayers and sympathies to his family during this sad time.

[Wayne O'Neill]

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...

[Gus Rubio]

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

[Ric Gillespie]

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.

[Dan Swift]

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.