[Woodcarver] Remembering Bob Gallandt - was Terry Nees - Photo

[Matt Kelley]

Hi Jack -

Not surprising that you should mention Bob Gallandt - my thought on  
seeing Bob with Joe at the top of that page was that we're losing too  
may of the good ones.   I too have several of Bob's spear fish decoys  
in my collection.   One was from a W3E Secret Pal exchange and the  
other a swap for a proof-of-concept carving of fish wrapped around a  
cane segment.   I could never get Bob into a friendship cane exchange  
because he said all he carved well was fish, so I had to prove to him  
that you could carve fish on a 2x2x3" cane segment!  ;-)    I can  
certainly see Bob talking about safety issues,  as he was an  
industrial safety officer for Bear Archery (if I recall correctly.)

CArve On!

Matt

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On May 16, 2008, at 1:22 PM, jackcarves at juno.com wrote:

>

> Matt, I went to the photo album from the GPO at the Dilletts.  I  

> knew Terry only from the woodcarvers list and from some emails we  

> had traded some time ago.  I think he was a good man and a dedicated  

> carver.  He will be missed by many and his legacy will stand the  

> test of time.

>

> When I went to the GPO site the first picture was of a friend of  

> mine who has also passed away.  We first met in Evart during the  

> second year of the Woodcarvers Roundup. My wife and I camped beside  

> him that year.  I remember that he was in a tent and we were   

> sleeping in the back of my Suburban on an air mattress that kept  

> leaking air.  It was miserable, it was raining and it was COLD.  But  

> this guy beside us was really helpful to us and his name was Bob  

> Gallandt.  Since then Bob and I had become friends- he had taken  

> several classes from me in Evart and Cadillac.  He was always  

> reminding me of safety issues with carving.  Bob has passed on, but  

> I think of him often especially when I look at his fish decoys in my  

> carvings collection.  We traded decoys for three years.  Bob made my  

> stay in Evart tolerable as did others there including Bob and Sandy  

> Holder, Jim and Virginia Huffman, and Ed and Margaret Joslin.  Ed  

> and his wife offered Winnie and me housing for a few days. I miss  

> Bob who passed away a couple of years ago after his heroic struggle  

> with cancer as I will miss Jim Huffman who died this winter.   

> Friends like these have helped me so much in my development as a  

> carver and as an instructor of carving that I can only hope to pass  

> on their legacy by encouraging others to try this wonderful and  

> creative endeavor and to tell their stories whenever I can.