Flimsy Sanity: A Role Model

Flimsy Sanity

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Thursday, June 09, 2005

A Role Model

As you may have surmised, I've not stayed put very long, so I have met many people. If I could give the name of one person I think is the best person I ever met it would be Ann Eichinger of Pierre South Dakota. Ann managed the film library when I worked at the South Dakota State Library and she was the apex of management. She managed the task rather than people and sought the easiest most efficient way to do things so that the boring parts were minimized as much as possible. People aren't stupid and the people who worked for her loved her. When they were in the office it was because they were getting free counseling for their personal lives not condemnation for some crap at work. Ann was scrupulously honest, wouldn't accept gifts from film companies hoping to sell their wares and worked weekends reviewing films so she wouldn't waste money on something without value. She was generous - gave all her tax refund money to charity - felt she could live without it. Incredibly intelligent (has three copies of "One Hundred Years of Solitude")she lives frugally and inconspicuously in a tiny apartment packed with books. She is the most unappreciated woman I know.

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