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From: "Denkhaus, Robert" <DenkhaR_at_ci.fort-worth.tx.us>
To: "NANFA (E-mail)" <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 4:44 PM
Subject: NANFA-- American Currents - a coincidental opportunity to compare
past and present
> I spent my morning digging through 50+ years of public aquarium detritus
in
> the now defunct aquarium at the Fort Worth Zoo. I had managed to finagle
a
> deal to acquire an extensive amount of stuff from the building before the
> bulldozer arrives. Most of it is comprised of filters, both complete and
> pieces and parts, and a hodgepodge of accessories but also some tanks and
> about 10 boxes of various fish related periodicals. While carrying a box
of
> miscellaneous magazines and reprints out to the truck I noticed the corner
of
> a pale blue publication with the word "Currents" on it poking out of the
box.
> After setting the box in the truck, I pulled out the publication to find
the
> February 1989 issue of American Currents. A quick rifling through the
> contents of the box turned up 3 additional issues from 1990 and 1991. I
set
> them aside in eager anticipation of looking them over when I returned to
the
> nature center.
>
> On the way into the refuge, I checked to see if the mail had arrived and
found
> the newest edition of AC. Now I have the opportunity to compare the past
with
> the present! Without going into any great detail, there really is
absolutely
> no, zero, none, nada, zilch, comparison. The early 90s editions do have
some
> informative pieces in them but they also have a lot of filler (pages of
> membership lists and changes in particular). The biggest difference is
really
> in the presentation. Some time during the ~10 years between the issues
NANFA
> went from providing its membership with a stapled together collection of
> photocopied type-written pages without any photos or really any layout to
the
> highly professional periodical that we each receive today.
>
> I know that Bob Bock has been involved in the evolution of American
Currents
> but with all due respect, I think that Chris Scharpf should stand up and
take
> a bow!! Chris, you've done one heck of a job!! <<CLAP, CLAP, STANDING
"O">>>
>
> Rob Denkhaus
> Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
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