Encyclopedia News

[jnoonan]

Hello Gaetan:
I'm sorry you felt it necessary to give up your work on the Encyclopedia of
Canadian Theatre. You have done an excellent job on it over the past few
years, and we are all in your debt.
Our only solace is that you were able to put it in the capable hands of Anne
Nothof.
I wish you well in all your future endeavours, and  hope we will hear from
you from time to time on the Encyclopedia News online.
Au revoir, and All the Best - Jim Noonan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gaetan Charlebois" <gaetan_charlebois at VIDEOTRON.CA>
To: <CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA>
Sent: October 10, 2002 5:49 PM
Subject: Encyclopedia News


> Hello all
>
> I am no in the process of doffing all of my responsibilities for the
> encyclopedia and handing off things to Anne Nothof and the University of
> Athabasca.
>
> The simple explanation is that the work was becoming overwhealming, the
> tasks increasingly thankless and the insults more frequent. (Even now I am
> in a war of e-mails with a bozo who doesn't like that I use "actor" for
all
> of them - male and female.) Also, Canoe is trying to terminate its lease
> contract with me which means that the massive site would have been an
orphan
> so I would have been making updates to no avail until the project found a
> home.
>
> Anne Nothof and I have had a magnificent working relationship almost since
> the site was created. She is directly responsible for keeping the Alberta
> section of the site current and interesting, she had contributed reviews,
> info and profiles at a steady pace since forever and I couldn't be more
> confident about canadiantheatre.com's future if I handling it myself.
>
> It's been a wonderful ride and most of you have been both a great help and
> great friends but for what is, for all intents and purposes, volunteer
work
> the abuse about this or that profile or this or that turn of phrase was
just
> too much.
>
> So please: any help you might have provided me, please offer Anne and her
> people in the future. This is an important thing and it must continue.
>
> Cheers and goodbye
>
> Gaetan Charlebois (founding editor, The Encyclopedia of Canadian Theatre
on
> the WWW; canadiantheatre.com)
>