<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you Erika! I remember my Dad enjoyed meeting you and was very proud that such a fine professor was interested in SignWriting - thank you for your friendship and your work with SignWriting all these years.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And congratulations on this book award!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1q-Oo3VW3l-bJ4d4RcwfCA20XMht4VqCk&revid=0B5ECJyMPET4OSmJCSlNTcG1BVXhxUWR1ZXlOZVZrK0l1Z0NvPQ" width="62" height="96" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Honorable mention, Edward Sapir Book Prize in Linguistic Anthropology</div><div class=""><a href="http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/SABINbookpage.html" target="_blank" class="">http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/SABINbookpage.html</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-----------<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 22, 2019, at 3:09 PM, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <<a href="mailto:erhoffma@OBERLIN.EDU" class="">erhoffma@OBERLIN.EDU</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Valerie, my family and I are sending you all our love. I feel so fortunate to have had the chance to spend time with your father; what a beautiful, thoughtful, talented, interesting person who made such important contributions to the world in so many ways, including the support of SignWriting. <br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 6:05 PM Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" class="">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">February 22, 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My dearest friends, and Stefan!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a very big gift to all of us, to hear from you again.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">THANK YOU for your birthday wishes, for your art work and animated gifs, for the design of the animation which is really quite fantastic, and thank you for being YOU - Your talent is unending and is always a big part of my happy birthdays.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I AM GRATEFUL YOUR HEALTH IS OK, STEFAN - BLESS YOU.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our family has gone through a major transition in the past 12 hours, and I can tell you all that we are very fortunate to know each other. Love and generosity is what the world needs, and I was blessed to be in a family with love and generosity.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We would not have SignWriting if it were not for my father, who was an ardent fan of SignWriting. I held him in my arms all day yesterday and now he is with the angels, at age 97, and I will never forget my 68th birthday, which brought him home.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Because you are my friends, I had to tell you. I need to share with all of you, because you are my online family, and everyone needs family. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you again, Stefan, and I will now read the next messages. It is exciting to read messages on the SignWriting List again -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My love to everyone -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 22, 2019, at 12:10 PM, Stefan Woehrmann <<a href="mailto:stefanwoehrmann@googlemail.com" target="_blank" class="">stefanwoehrmann@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_625193686288843098Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi Valerie and hi to all SignWriting fans all over the world....and I know that there are so many of them <br class=""><br class=""></div>Same procedure as every year ---- big smile. <br class=""><br class=""></div>Let us celebrate!<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Today is <span class="">Valerie`s</span> <span class="">birthday</span> I want to wish you, <span class="">Valerie</span>, all the best !!<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Today is a wonderful day!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="1E564B1D-6CCC-46ED-9A55-B4A89BA116CA" width="320" height="142" src="cid:1691775dfb7cb971f161" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SignWriting is so much fun ....creating little animated gifs I can use the symbols you invented for different reasons!<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""> TODAY is your day, and thank you, for all the things you doing for the world to become a better place…for
your family …for your friends ..... Thanks for your ingenious invention …for
your wonderful
tutorials ... for your generosity to share your ideas with us…and for
your friendship ;-) <br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have created quite a lot
of cards and animations over the years, but today is a wonderful
opportunity to create another Happy Birthday card just for YOU Valerie. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span id="gmail-m_625193686288843098gmail-m_7028369550050867702gmail-m_2180217394617612163result_box" lang="en" class="">So
many people around the world will share feelings of gratitude towards
you for your never ending patience, respect, strenghth, optimism, humor,
.... <span class=""><br class=""></span></span><div class=""><span id="gmail-m_625193686288843098gmail-m_7028369550050867702gmail-m_2180217394617612163result_box" lang="en" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span><span id="gmail-m_625193686288843098gmail-m_7028369550050867702gmail-m_2180217394617612163result_box" lang="en" class=""><span class="">All best <br class=""><br class=""></span></span><span id="gmail-m_625193686288843098gmail-m_7028369550050867702gmail-m_2180217394617612163result_box" lang="en" class=""><span class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="014F64C3-F6FC-4601-8530-6E94732DAA39" src="cid:1691775dfb7cb971f162" class=""></span></span></div><br clear="all" class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_625193686288843098gmail_signature">think positive - think steps - think future</div></div>
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</p></blockquote></div><br clear="all" class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, she/her/hers<br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">Associate Professor and Chair<br class="">Department of Anthropology<br class="">Oberlin College</span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""></span><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1q-Oo3VW3l-bJ4d4RcwfCA20XMht4VqCk&revid=0B5ECJyMPET4OSmJCSlNTcG1BVXhxUWR1ZXlOZVZrK0l1Z0NvPQ" width="62" height="96" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Honorable mention, Edward Sapir Book Prize in Linguistic Anthropology</div><div class=""><a href="http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/SABINbookpage.html" target="_blank" class="">http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/SABINbookpage.html</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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