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This message just came in from Vinod Parekh:<br><br>
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Our revered friend Edwin Shinn was a towering figure in the world of
Human Development. With his passing away an era of has gone.<br><br>
His passionate and firey intensity of purpose, dedication and compassion
inspired every on around him.<br><br>
We met Ed and Mimi in Chicago at the Institute of Cultural affairs and
later worked together in the village of Maliwada in India during the
Human Development Project days and co- facilitated a number of training
programmes in India and Ft Collins.<br><br>
Ed and Mimi came to the Human Development Training School in India where
Ed inspired hundreds of youth with his unending vitality and zest for
life.<br><br>
We are eternally grateful to Ed for introducing us to Village
Earth.<br><br>
He has left indelible foot prints around the world.<br><br>
May his Creator rest his soul in peace and give Mimi and children
to bear this huge loss.<br><br>
We echo the attached age old wisdom while saluting the great soul of
Ed.<br><br>
Vinod and Kamala<br><br>
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:28 AM, David Bartecchi
<<a href="mailto:david@villageearth.org">david@villageearth.org</a>
> wrote:<br>
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<dd>Dear Friends of Ed Shinn,<br><br>
<dd>I write this with a heavy heart with news that Ed Shinn passed away
this Friday. Mark Shinn, his son, contacted me today with this news and I
have given him all your contact information so he might send you a notice
about the funeral. As you might expect, he said Mimi is pretty shook'n up
by this loss. It's a sad day for Village Earth as Ed was a huge influence
on the organization and everyone who had the privilege of knowing him.
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<dd>Village Earth will be posting as a memorial our website as soon as we
receive more information from his children. <br><br>
<dd>Dave<br><br>
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