[Jewelry making - Article 00590] - [Orchid] Fred Van Sant

[Downey]

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    Dear Members of the Faceting World,  it is with regret to announce
    that Fred Van Sant died on Sept. 6, 2003. There will be no obituary,
    per se, that was Fred's wish, and the daughter's will abide by his
    wish.  However, in order to celebrate a remembrance of such an 
    important person as Fred was in the faceting world, I have permission
    to collect anecdotal information from any of you who would like to
    respond.  You can either send your stories to me for a collection to
    be published, or you can send them to either Jeff Ford or Thurmond 
    Moore for their daily faceting lists. 

    I will send my collection to the USFG Newsletter, to both USFG and
    Lapidary Arts Faceting Lists, and more importantly, I think, to the
    two daughters of Fred as a memorabilia contribution of their beloved
    and most extraordinary Father. 

    Like the following:  Did you know that Fred never took an advanced
    math course in this whole  life?  If he wanted to master Calculus,
    he found a Calculus text and mastered the subject. He learned so many
    different approaches to mathematics in the same manner that he ended
    up inventing a whole, complete, NEW approach to mathematics based on
    NEGATIVE  numbers.  The approach was never presented to the math
    world, simply because the mathematical PhD's who read the approach
    could not comprehend it.  That was one Fred's many phenomenal gifts. 
    Sincerely -- Charlie Moon -- <clmoon AT pacbell.net>



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