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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Derek:</FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff">>>>Over
at Scoop (or Scoop! as they say) they posted several photos of the Gladstone
offices and staff. Gary and Susan Daigle-Leach sent</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff">>>>them
in (except for a present day picture sent by Tom Gordon III). People such as the
Leachs (or Leaches? not sure if that would change<BR>>>>the spelling or
not), Carl Barks, Bruce Hamilton, John Clark, Byron Erickson, and Steve Calrow
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<DIV>Thanks to anyone who submitted the pictures !</DIV>
<DIV>There have been a few pictures of staff memebers in the softcover
Library albums (I don't remember which ones exactly), but none of
these.</DIV>
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<DIV>I remember the building & entrance lobby very well (and the corridor
beyond that)-- all those Barks lithographs everywhere on the walls, several
meters high !</DIV>
<DIV>After discoering a couple of Gladstone Disney comics somewhere in
California in '94, I resolved to stop in Prescott, Az, in '95. I purchased the
Mickey Mouse 1930's strip album (yellow edition), subscribed to the DDA &
WDC&S libraries, and went back carrying the first (10?) issues of the
WDC&S library.</DIV>
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<DIV>I am not sure who I met. It may have been Janet Dvorak. Very nice, anyway--
as everyone I've had on the phone or read from here has always been.</DIV>
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<DIV>It's a good opportunity for thanking the Gladstone team for the years
of very high quality comics and albums they have produced, and some
of them are now still producing at Gemstone: thanks for your committment
to publishing the comics, thanks for the design, layout and editing, thanks for
the highly interesting, educated & educative articles, and thanks for the
great color!</DIV>
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<DIV>Have a nice week-end,</DIV>
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<DIV>Olivier</DIV>
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