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Date: June
8, 2008
To: Estie Keyes on the occasion of our Volunteer Awards
Ceremony
Dear Estie:
I wish that I
could be here today with you and our wonderful volunteers
to tell everyone how much we are going to miss you on the
Board of Directors next season. I wish I could tell them
how much I have personally depended on your wonderful support
and your commitment to our Little Theatre.
But then, every
volunteer, each and every one of them - knows how much you
mean to us. They have witnessed first hand how you have
gone above and beyond anyone's expectations to really make
this all-volunteer organization work - to make us the best,
most successful community theatre in Central Florida. They've
witnessed the fun of being a member of the Little Theatre,
because you have made it so much fun for us.
 It
isn't often in my several years on this planet that I have
run into someone like you - someone who will go to the outer
limits to make something exactly right and appropriate for
every occasion - someone who walks the tightrope of success
with nary a safety net, nary a complaint, and always carries
with her a big bright smile that lights up the room.
I simply can't
let this occasion go by unnoticed. And so I have asked our
award people here in town to create a special remembrance
for you. Again, I wish I could be there in person to give
it to you - to put my arms around you and hug you and thank
you from the bottom of my heart. Because, for me, this award
says it all. I can't think of a better name for it than
to have named it after you.
And, so, Estie
Keyes, even from this distance that separates us today,
I present to you the first ever Little Theatre Estie Award.
It's for an achievement of perfection that for us has no
equal. I think you'll recognize a part of it. At this award's
centerpiece is something familiar that you originated. I
hope you'll display your Estie in a prominent place in your
home where friends who visit will know just how much you
mean to us.
Now I simply
ask that someone come up and hug Estie for me so that she'll
know I'm really here in spirit even if I can't be here in
person.
With much admiration
and affection,
Bill Cook, LT President
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