From the Editor: A Great Man Has Passed
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This site is dedicated to the Inuit Dog as well as related Inuit culture and traditions. It is also home to The Fan Hitch, Journal of the Inuit Sled Dog.
The Fan Hitch welcomes your letters, stories, comments and suggestions. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit submissions used for publication.
Contents of The Fan Hitch are protected by international copyright laws. No photo, drawing or text may be reproduced in any form without written consent. Webmasters please note: written consent is necessary before linking this site to yours! Please forward requests to Sue Hamilton, 55 Town Line Rd., Harwinton, Connecticut 06791, USA or mail@thefanhitch.org.
This site is dedicated to the Inuit Dog as well as related Inuit culture and traditions. It is also home to The Fan Hitch, Journal of the Inuit Sled Dog.
A Great Man Has
Passed
"The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage,
understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character."
"The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage,
understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character."
Dwight David Eisenhower
1890-1969
34th President of the United States (1953-1961)
U.S. Army five-star general during World War II
34th President of the United States (1953-1961)
U.S. Army five-star general during World War II
This issue of The Fan Hitch completes our fifteenth year. I am so grateful to those who gave their time and effort and who shared their intellectual property to help enrich the pages of Volume 15. And I am thankful for those who visited The Fan Hitch website and found it useful.
I think completing a decade-and-a-half in publication makes this issue special. But it is truly a bittersweet one. While there are several uplifting stories – among them a Nunavut official publically recognizing the need to protect the aboriginal Inuit Dog, another successful veterinary wellness clinic, a major research paper with implications for the qimmiq – this issue brings news of a heartbreaking loss, the passing of a man whose presence knew no boundaries and whose departure filled all those lives he touched in so many ways with a profound, unimaginable sorrow. What he and his like-minded colleague accomplished in about a decade, The Fan Hitch could not begin to think of approaching....not ever! His lifetime of other achievements – his very quintessence – elevated this man into a league of his own.
The September issue of The Fan Hitch is dedicated to his memory.
Wishing you smooth ice and narrow leads,
Sue
Forget-me-not Photo: Kjetil Ree