C&G Close Their Doors

1)  Their E-mail   2)  Our Response From:  bonnie@casadyg.com Subj:  It is so hard to say Goodbye Date:  Monday, June 30, 2003 9:31:29 AM   To:  qmugla@aol.com I don't how to start this note to all of you except to tell you what's in my heart.  How do you wind down a 19-year relationship?  How do I say goodbye to 8 years of a job that I love and to people who have become part of my family?  How do I thank all of you who have been there for my brain surgeries with encouragement?  How do I thank all of you who have been there sharing my joy with the marriage of two of my children and the birth of my two grandchildren?  How do I see a blinking button and not think of all of you? It has been my greatest pleasure and honor to work with all of the folks that I have met and come to love in the User Group Community over the last eight years.  It is also with great sadness that I tell you that the time has come for Casady & Greene to close its doors.  It is so very hard to end the 19-year relationship with the Mac community that Casady & Greene has enjoyed since 1984.  And believe me, we have enjoyed it.  We have fought the good fight, but we are no longer able to keep the doors open. We held on as long as we could trying to provide you with products -- quality products -- that filled very important gaps, and for a long long time we did an amazing job.  The decision to close the doors was one of the most difficult decisions that I have ever been involved in. So I say thank you for making my job the best job a person could ever have.  I am going to miss you all. Bonnie ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <root@www.soundjam.com> Received: from rly-xl04.mx.aol.com (rly-xl04.mail.aol.com [172.20.83.73]) by air-xl03.mail.aol.com (v94.1) with ESMTP id MAILINXL34-4f6f3f0065e1244; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:31:29 -0400 Received: from www.soundjam.com (www.soundjammp.com [216.218.236.130]) by rly-xl04.mx.aol.com (v94.27) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXL43-5cb3f0065d0337; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:31:13 2000 Received: (qmail 16880 invoked by uid 4001); 30 Jun 2003 16:24:27 -0000 Date: 30 Jun 2003 16:24:27 -0000 Message-ID: <20030630162427.16879.qmail@www.soundjam.com> To: Bonnie Mitchell <bonnie@casadyg.com> Subject: It is so hard to say Goodbye From: Bonnie Mitchell <bonnie@casadyg.com> Reply-To: bonnie@casadyg.com X-AOL-IP: 172.20.83.73

 

From:  "QMUG/LA" <qmugla@aol.com> Subj:  Re: It is so hard to say Goodbye Date:  Tue, 1 Jul 2003 07:30:11 -0700   To:  "Bonnie Mitchell" <bonnie@casadyg.com> Dear Bonnie,   Thank you for writing and letting us all know.  As Lorene Romero already said, it's a very sad day for all of us.  But now you can be off to your next adventure...  It could be said:   "Every ending is just a new beginning"   "Every challenge is just a new opportunity"   "When you fall off a horse, you just have to get back on"   All of which is fine and dandy from an innocent bystander perspective, but when it's happening to you (and I've been there), it's much more difficult and painful.   It's been an honor and a pleasure working w/ you, Bonnie, and you know the entire user group community wishes you well.  To that ends, QMUG/LA has taken the liberty of writing you a Letter of Recommendation (unsigned):   <http://www.qmug.org/LA/qi-qore/-spondence/03-07_ltro-recom-bonnie.pdf>   While the rest of us go around applying for jobs that get posted, good companies create jobs for good people, and I have no doubt that that is what will happen for you.  Companies that come to mind:   Apple -- no offense to Jeff, a great guy, but I get the feeling being UG Program Mgr is a secondary responsibility, and wouldn't having someone like you be great!  And Salinas is only an hour away from Cupertino!   Microsoft -- who *is* their user group contact, and wouldn't that be great to help its Mindshare program be more Mac-friendly so its Mac BU wouldn't have to shoulder sending stuff out.   Symantec -- or any other company that could use some evangelizing to user groups, companies that aren't on our radar, because that's what you do so well, at Macworlds and User Group Universities and all points in between.   QMUG/LA wishes you the best, whatever you decide to do, and we'll be there for you as you have been for us. Enjoy your new independence this 4th of July, and come back w/ all guns blazing before San Francisco! Sincerely, Doan Thiel Stafford  *  http://www.qmug.org  *  (323) 222-QMUG/7684 Co-Chair -- QMUG/LA  *     QMUGLA@aol.com    *  (323) 860-7346 fax