<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I was leafing through the February MA when, in Letters to the Editor, my eye caught Tom Shaw's letter. You remember Tom's posting on this board a few months ago. It was in regard to one of the MA columnists printing someone's version of a bad experience at a Pattern contest, and Tom essentially stated that his experience at a Pattern contest was a good one.<BR>
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Well, as memory serves, it was suggested by a few that Tom send a letter to the Editor of MA, to explain his experience, and take the opposite stance of that particular article in MA.<BR>
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Tom did exactly that, in a nicely written note that put no one person down, and I want to be the first to thank him publicly for his conviction. <BR>
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Well done Tom and welcome to Pattern. We need more like you<BR>
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Matt Kebabjian<BR>
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