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Sorry to say Ivan Vaughn passed on. I saved the following from an article on Paul McCartney before the New York premier of one of his "classical" works. >>"Standing Stone's" touching cumulative effect owes to its underlying consideration of life's unending cycless of childhood, friendship, parenthood, and the losses that deepen such links across time. "I got into poetry and the type of thinking that kicked me toward 'Standing Stone' about five years ago," says McCartney, "after the death from Parkinson's disease of Ivan Vaugha, one of my best friends at school in Liverpool and the guy who actually introduced me to John Lennon. Ivan and I were born on exactly the same day and year in the same town - the 18th of June, 1942, Liverpool - so that made us very close. When he died, it seemed fitting to put my thoughts down in a poem, and that led me, through my hooking up with Allen Ginsberg, to the writing accompanying 'Standing Stone.' Oct 14th Royal Albert Hall, Nov. 19th Carnegie Hall by Timothy White Billboard 9/24/97<< If anyone on the list is a "close personal friend" of Paul McCartney you might inquire as to whether he would like to do something for the Parkinson's cause as another tribute to his late friend. Of course, he has some other specific charitable interests, health and otherwise. Rick Hermann wrote: > > I've begun reading a book by "another" Ivan, Ivan Vaughn. The title is > "Ivan: Living With Parkinson's Disease," published 1986 by Farrar Straus > Giroux. Vaughn, a childhood friend of John Lennon who shared his diagnosis > with John shortly before Lennon was killed, is a young onset pwp and at > least was a lecturer in Cambridge, England. I'm not far into the book, but > wondered--does anyone know whether Ivan Vaughn has been on this list, or > what's become of him? > > Regards, > Rick Hermann