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About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone

Many of us have come to know Patrick Malone (Lugnut) as a friendly, helpful, knowledgeable and kind individual. He is a frequent and enthusiastic contributor to our analog discussion forum. He has initiated only 17 threads, but responded to 559 threads. I would guess that many, if not most, of us can recall a time when Pat replied with helpful advice to a question we posted or helped us track down a rare recording. I have come to love Pat as a friend, and to respect him as a man, and I suspect many of you share those feelings.

Today I write to share difficult news with you. Pat has been diagnosed with an aggressive stomach cancer. It has yet to be determined whether surgery will even be worth it. If surgery is performed, most or all of the stomach will be removed, and Pat would face a difficult and long post-op period in the hospital. The medical course is still uncertain, but will be determined soon. Whatever is decided, it will not be easy or pleasant.

Something may be planned in the future to assist the family. For now, Pat could use some of the friendship he so often and willingly showed us. You can email Pat at: [email protected]. You can also mail cards, letters ... or whatever. You may email me for Pat's mailing address. My email is: [email protected].

I hope to spend a few days with Pat in Idaho or Nebraska (from which he hails) soon. Between this news, my legal work, getting ready for family arriving for the holidays, Audio Intelligent, and trying to make plans to visit Pat, my head is spinning. If you email me and I don't respond, please understand that I am not ignoring you, but rather simply do not have time to reply.

Pat may or may not have time to respond to posts here, to emails, or to cards mailed to him. But he has asked me to convey to each and every one of you that he has cherished your friendship, your comradery, and sharing our common hobby on this great website.

As we prepare for our holiday season celebrations, and look forward to -- as we should -- enjoying this time of year, I ask that you keep Pat and his family in mind ... and softly offer up, in quiet moments in the still of night and early morning, prayers for Pat and his family. God bless.

Warmest regards to all,
Paul Frumkin
paul_frumkin

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Pat and I met in the spring of 1975 at the University of Nebraska. We immediately acknowledged our mutual love of music
and shared many many evenings listening to recorded music and playing acoustic guitars together. He is such a great host with such a good ear for the aesthetics as well as the artistry of music. His pursuit of fine audio was evident even back then. His pleasant nature and kindness to others is an inspiration to those around him. As he and his family face this difficult time, I am confident that a lifetime of sowing the seeds of kindness and laughter will return to Pat, untold acres of good will, and assistance along with our prayers.

Love, Jeff (Ampster)
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HELLO AUDIOGON! So enjoyed meeting many of you in Denver at the recent RMAF. Getting together with Pat and Barb was my main reason for coming out and all the nice new people I met and great music was just icing on the cake!

Pat so loves the music and the related equipment to maximize enjoyment. He shares this with his family and his friends freely and often. He has done this for all of the 30 years I've known him since college. As we went from room to room enjoying music and auditioning systems at the RMAF we noticed the demographic of the presenters and the attendees. The age demographic we felt was the most dramatic. Having more young people enjoy high end audio seemed a compelling goal and we agreed it would be good for everybody.

On the plane on the way back home to Omaha I had a flash idea.
I ran it by Pat the other day and he felt touched and comfortable with the idea so here goes:
Let those of us members of the Audiogon and other listening communities pull together and pool our resources both personal and commercial to set up a yearly scholarship in Pat's name.The scholarship offering will be for a selected person(s) under 30 years old to have their tranportation, lodging and admission to the RMAF or other similar event paid for by the foundation. The selection process could be done any number of ways and the number of awards and nominations could vary greatly. The criteria should be simple and forthright. By this posting I hope to start a chain reaction involving many others much more knowledgable than I about the logistics and specifics. I think it is a worthy idea and Pat did as well.

I welcome any and all responses to this query via this forum for all to see, or at my personal email [email protected]

Warm Regards to All,
Ampster (Jeff McCabe)

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So great to hear that we can use this forum for so much goodwill. Nate, I couldn't possibly be a nominee since it is for 30 and undersomethings........ but I thank you kindly!

As for Larry and Albert and Chris along with all the rest of the great folks I met, it was great meeting all of you as well at th RMAF.

I agree with Nate that if there is a way AudiogoN can become the administative body for this foundation then that makes a lot of sense. Bring the 18-30 year olds in the door through AudiogoN. Most of them will be brought to AudiogoN by one of us so we will be able to nominate and vouch for their sound savvy. Keep listening and I hope someone knows how to ask the right folks at AudiogoN for their assistance if any.

Warm Regards to All,
Jeff
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