Peter

Io ha trovate tu responsa interessante.

An tu poterea dar un pauc plus de detalio re le "trivialisation e
infantilisation de Interlingua" que occurreva in UMI, e del qual tu ha
scribite.

cordialmente
Edo Hall


On 11/10/06, peter talevi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Martin Brüggemeier <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Le autor del sito, Frank Esterhill, essevaa obviemente le director del
> "Interlingua Institute", que esseva dissolvite in le anno 2000. Que
> pensa vos del contento de ille sito, o plus precisemente:
>
> Martin Brüggemeier
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> Frank Esterhill was appointed Executive Director of the Interlingua
> Institute by Alice Morris Sturges, daughter of IALA's founders, in 1973, and
> he held that post until the dissolution of the Institute in November,
> 2000.  During his tenure, in addition to handling the routine
> administrative, financial, tax, fundraising, and reporting matters of the
> Institute, Esterhill managed the plant pathology project for the US Dept of
> Agriculture in the late 1970s; he established, at the end of the 1980s, the
> Interlingua collection at the New York Public Library in memory of Alice
> Morris Sturges; and, in 1997, he recovered the archive of IALA from
> near-certain oblivion.  Until her death in 1986, he was in constant contact
> with Alice Sturges (who served as Vice President of the Institute),
> consulting with her and with the other board members on all matters
> concerning the Institute.
>
> There were both internal and external causes for the dissolution.  First,
> internally, the trivialization and infantilization of Interlingua which ran
> rampant while UMI was under the control of Leland Yeager and Piet Cleij
> (coupled with the bitterness and rancor that those two had engendered) had
> brought Interlingua to its nadir.  Second, externally, the trustees of the
> Morris Memorial Fund, noting the abysmal state of Interlingua and relying
> upon independent, outside, professional counsel had decided that they could
> no longer be associated with the project, and they, accordingly, ceased all
> support.  In the winter of 1999, the competent directors, profoundly
> disgusted with the inanities which continued to emanate from UMI and no
> longer able to tolerate the treachery of one member of the board, voted
> unanimously to end the Institute.  In the words of the president, it was
> "preferable to give Interlingua a decent burial, rather than see it debased
> in such a manner".
>
> It is distressing that an embittered individual who never played any role
> whatsoever within the Interlingua Institute (and in fact whose candidacy was
> rejected when he was nominated for the board) now seeks to rewrite history
> by defaming the one man who was responsible for keeping the Institute alive,
> against all odds, for more than a quarter of a century.
>
> See the Closing Memoranda (June 15, 2001 and January 15, 2003), which
> document in minute detail the events which led to the dissolution of the
> Interlingua Institute.
>
> -- Peter
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