Tribute To Sandi Duncan Clark |
Written by Scott Evans |
Saturday, 20 September 2008 18:13 |
HONORING
SANDI DUNCAN-CLARK
Some people are just plain special! Such is the case with Sandi Duncan-Clark. I know that many of you are familiar with Sandi through her former reporting with the US Gospel News and now with us right here on the Southern Gospel Music Forum. If you are familiar with her work, you know she is a great journalist! For those of you that have had the opportunity to get to meet Sandi, you also know that she is a great person! Sandi has contributed much to the southern Gospel music industry over the years and some of us decided that it was time we honored her for those contributions!
It all began with John Mills. John is the moderator of all of the discussion lists that are associated with the Southern Gospel Music Forum. John decided that we were going to make February, Sandi Duncan-Clark Month on the email lists! This turned out to be a popular decision as list member after list member wrote about the way Sandi had touched their lives.
The next step began with Dee Ann Bailey. Dee Ann is a member of the lists on the Southern Gospel Music Forum and she is writer and a huge fan of southern Gospel music. Dee Ann contacted John about putting together some kind of an award for Sandi and presenting it to her at an upcoming concert that both Dee Ann and Sandi would be attending! John got behind it and was certain that the list members would too! There was a problem though! We wanted it to be a surprise and Sandi is also a part of our lists! So John, using a little "moderator magic" sent a message to the lists without Sandi knowing it and the plan was in place. Many people on the list contributed to the fund that was started. I became involved as the webmaster for the Southern Gospel Music Forum, when I was asked, and quickly and enthusiastically agreed, to post the information on the award presentation on the website!
Finally, it was time for the "big night." Neither John nor I were able to be there so I am going to post Dee Ann's account of the events of the evening:
What a great surprise we pulled off! Sandi was gone and on no mail earlier when my 'slip up' happened on one of the lists. So tonight she was totally taken by surprise!
John also would like to thank Dee for the great job she did at getting all of this done! As I said before, this was her idea! Dee did most of the work to make this a success and all of us here at the Southern Gospel Music Forum and each of our email lists, wants to give her a great big thank you! Also, a quick thank you for each of the people that contributed in some way to honoring Sandi.
There is not much else to say except thank you Sandi! Thank you for your unbiased journalism, thank you for the friendships, thank you for being a champion for everyone (both the well-known and the not-so-well-known)! Thank you for your great spirit, thank you for your servant's heart and thank you for you Godly Nature. Thank you for being Sandi Duncan-Clark! There is one final item that I want to share with you. Shortly after all of this took place, Sandi sent this message out. I want to share it with you:
Ann, John, Scott and all of you precious people,
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