Tribute.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 22 September 1997
• Author: Blum, Brian

We will greatly miss Lenair Mulford as a friend and co-worker when she retires at the end of September, 1997. Her absence will be most acutely felt by those of us who have come to rely on her prodigious talent as a word processor and editor.

I will certainly be one of the many people affected by her departure. Lenair has the distinction of being the only person on earth, besides me, to have read every word of the four books that I have written over the last 15 years. In fact, she has read them not once, but multiple times, as her fingers deftly keyed into her machine successive drafts, redrafts, revisions, amendments, and updates. To be honest, I doubt that Lenair lingered to bask in my efforts at legal luminescence, because she moved too fast. With astounding speed, she transcribed my laboriously amateurish typing, deciphered the scrawl that used to drive my elementary school teachers to distraction, and imposed order on a chaos of untidy, cramped inserts...