<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Your Excellency. While I am grateful and sincerely humbled, in truth the success of Ponte Alto, Stierbach, Roxbury Mill, and the Northern Army (of Darkness) was *completely* a team effort and is absolutely the result of the tremendous skill, heart, and dedication of *all* involved. This was truly a "we" effort, and we can all bask in the shared warmth of our mutual success and team glory. I believe we can all now agree that success and glory are indeed so much sweeter when undertaken not just for the self, but for the greater good of those around us and for whom we care. For my part, I may have helped provide some leadership, coordination, and on-field command and control, but it was truly the combined contributions of each and every one of us that has made our great success possible. From your own work at practice and helping armour on Monday's to your Lady Wife Sofia's efforts with Logistics and with novice's on Mondays and her Baronial duties, to Kat's work with the Expeditionary Corps and the Mantles, to Sophia's help in camp and in the Shield Wall, to Sir Strykar's fantastic work teaching, and Cosimo's help training, and Duncan's help marshalling, and Sir Guy's help motivating, and Gunnar and Cunian's devotion to Ponte Alto fighting through the years, and Demian's help in the shield wall and with the artwork, and Bad Chris' help fighting and with woodworking, and Good Chris' work in the line and with Kat, and Lauren's work timekeeping and learning, and Wulfwyn's work with Tabards and waterbearing, and James' work on the recruitment posters, and Katherine's work as Seneschale, and on and on and on and on...<div><br></div><div>In some ways, the dream is all of us working together to create a shared community based on honor and courtesy and chivalry and prowess and service to each other. And I believe we *all* are working hard for ourselves and for each other to make this a place where the dream is becoming closer to a reality.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to everyone who is helping to make that happen in any way, no matter how large or how small their contribution.</div><div><br></div><div>In service,</div><div><br></div><div>Baron Maximilian Von Halstern</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 13, 2008, at 7:28 AM, David Conlon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">I am going to keep this simple,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">I would like to specifically thank Baron Max for all the hard work he has done for the Barony of Ponte Alto and all the surrounding Baronies.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Thank you Baron Max Von Halstern you are a huge asset to this area you are certainly part of keeping the dream alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">-Viscount Sir Eldrid Wolfsguard</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "></span> </p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Ponte-Alto mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ponte-Alto@atlantia.sca.org">Ponte-Alto@atlantia.sca.org</a><br><a href="http://seahorse.atlantia.sca.org/mailman/listinfo/ponte-alto">http://seahorse.atlantia.sca.org/mailman/listinfo/ponte-alto</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>