This message just came in from Vinod Parekh: Attachments Our revered friend Edwin Shinn was a towering figure in the world of Human Development. With his passing away an era of has gone. His passionate and firey intensity of purpose, dedication and compassion inspired every on around him. 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. 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. We are eternally grateful to Ed for introducing us to Village Earth. He has left indelible foot prints around the world. May his Creator rest his soul in peace and give Mimi and children to bear this huge loss. We echo the attached age old wisdom while saluting the great soul of Ed. Vinod and Kamala On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:28 AM, David Bartecchi <<mailto:david@villageearth.org>david@villageearth.org> wrote: Dear Friends of Ed Shinn, 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. Village Earth will be posting as a memorial our website as soon as we receive more information from his children. Dave