Uncle Bill's legacy. Sending a kami's son to Medical School

There are a bunch of extremely generous people on this forum. :thumbup:
Thank you,
Steve
 
Buncha dang knife nuts...I've seen the awesome stuff in the raffle.

Okay...good guys too.


When is the deadline again please Steve?
 
Edit- I just check the link, and it's indeed over. Sorry about that.

When's the next chance to contribute to this good cause?
 
Hello friends,
I wanted to bump this one to the top. We're doing another fundraiser for Ram. If you aren't familiar with this, drop me an email at
sferguson2@triad.rr.com
and I'll fill you in on it. We can't discuss it much more than this on the forum.

Ram's tuition is $2500 per semester. Rent is $300/month, and the boy has to eat too!:)

Thank you all for your continued support of Bill Martino's legacy!

Steve Ferguson
 
Steve,

Check will be in the mail tomorrow.

Once again...you're one of the great guys. :thumbup:


All this collecting and record-keeping and the self-less donation of many of your own collection...plus your own (and kept secret) personal donations...

hell, man...you could restore a guy's opinion of humanity. :D






Kis
enjoy every sandwich
 
ferguson said:
Hello friends,
I wanted to bump this one to the top. We're doing another fundraiser for Ram. If you aren't familiar with this, drop me an email at
sferguson2@triad.rr.com
and I'll fill you in on it. We can't discuss it much more than this on the forum.

Ram's tuition is $2500 per semester. Rent is $300/month, and the boy has to eat too!:)

Thank you all for your continued support of Bill Martino's legacy!

Steve Ferguson
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I've been reading old posts tonight, and realized it's been a while since someone quoted Uncle Bill: "What's this have to do with khukris? Everything!" :D:thumbup:

I miss him saying that. I'm sure he's very pleased right now to see Steve's post here.


Norm
 
Svashtar said:
I've been reading old posts tonight, and realized it's been a while since someone quoted Uncle Bill: "What's this have to do with khukris? Everything!" :D:thumbup:

I miss him saying that. I'm sure he's very pleased right now to see Steve's post here.
Norm
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Speaking of good quotes. I found this exchange and thought it was classic.

Burke: "You can never be too rich, too lucky, or too good looking, and your knife can never be too strong."

U.B.: "Burke, I agree in full but it seems life has dealt me a bad hand. I am poor, lose at the casinos, am old and ugly, and if I had to make the knives myself they would do well to open an envelope."

Uncle Bill
 
ilbruche said:
Speaking of good quotes. I found this exchange and thought it was classic.

Burke: "You can never be too rich, too lucky, or too good looking, and your knife can never be too strong."

U.B.: "Burke, I agree in full but it seems life has dealt me a bad hand. I am poor, lose at the casinos, am old and ugly, and if I had to make the knives myself they would do well to open an envelope."

Uncle Bill
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LOL! Others may know better about his finances, but the Uncle Bill I saw may have not had the most $ in the bank, but he was hardly poor. I've seldom seen a person so rich in spirit and goodwill. And everybody gets old, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

We spent an afternoon once exchanging emails about the old vs. new Reno, as 30 years ago I used to spend a lot of time there at the Sundowner, Fitzgeralds and the other old downtown places playing single-deck Blackjack, and later at the new MGM Grand playing with a 4-deck shoe, their attempt to make card counting more difficult. Uncle Bill knew a great deal about the subject, but like me had given up going because of all the idjit tourists you have to fight off to get a good game. He also was a very experienced pilot when he was younger, and we talked a lot about that when I was getting my private a few years ago. He was one hell of an accomplished individual, and sorry to those who object to the "H" word. It fits here.

I think he thought of us newcomers madly buying everything he posted with a kind of amused air, through his sickness. Knowing what we were feeling, and happy about it, but too ill to do anything but sit back and watch the old love of these knives pass before him.

I have too many regrets, but my biggest is not discovering Uncle Bill and HI about a year earlier than I did, when he was so involved in the forum. At least I was fortunate enough to know him and learn a little from his example.

Norm
 
Steve:

I get paid Friday so I'll drop you some money for tixs on Friday.

I always enjoy support this endeavor because it means a real and true investment into his community.
 
Thanks to all of you folks for supporting this cause and honoring Bill's memory. I believe that what we put into this will pay huge benefits. The poor people of Nepal die every day from the simplest of ailments that we think nothing of. One example, and I know it's gross, is diarrhea. Over here, we pop a pill. There, in the villages in the mountains, with no doctors or nurses, they often die.

Steve Ferguson
 
I saw the khuks Sgt made for this fundraising and WOW.

Chiruwa dui chirra... enough said ;)
 
We will continue the Dhamra work, thank you Steve
 
There, in the villages in the mountains, with no doctors or nurses, they often die.
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I noticed from his last transcript that Ram did well in his course on Infectious Diseases of Childhood:thumbup:.
 
Heard that about 182 responses received so far, and maybe 12 folks will be drawn.

There's still time and lawd knows, it couldn't be for a better cause...with roots in the past from Bill Martino's initiation of the project, and projections into the future for the health and well-being of folks who will never know the kind of lives we are able to live, but whose culture crafts tools we cherish.

Neat to be a part of it.




Kis
enjoy every sandwich
 
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