I figured I would let all the TV stations do their 10 million stories about Sylvia (that are all the same) before I put in my two-cents. Surprisingly they probably did twice as many stories about Metli than they did about Sylvia.

I didn’t know Sylvia personally, but have attended a couple of private parties she was at and I would always discuss her latest cigar box purse when she would attend the Symphony (I was the lead usher at the Pavilion). She was always pleasant to talk to and usually had a quip about something.

I used to work with Denny Oviatt, a long time employee of Sylvia’s. He told me while Sylvia could be kind of tough on her employees the one thing he appreciated about her was when you were in her crosshairs for work performance, she wouldn’t let the issue stew. Denny said she would call you in her office right away, let you have it, then it was over. He said she would never hold a grudge or be vindictive, he said she would just tell you to go back to work.

She will be missed.

3 Thoughts on “I should probably say something about Sylvia Henkin

  1. Just think of all of the history she witnessed. I lost my 98 year old aunt in late March and thought the same at that time…. So the question is, will most of us still be around in 2050, 2060, or 2070 to reminisce as well?….. (What was the name of that blog site?…. It had something to do with Pepsi Cola and then there were those Dakota sites too, one was free and the other no so much, the latter had to do with war or something….What the heck were their names?)

  2. It’s the year 2057 and it goes like this:

    “I miss the good old days…… Do you remember when we had that mayor that cried all the time? What was his name?… You know, he was going to be president…. No really, he said he was going to be….Really…..But that was when the American presidency matter….you know…. before the Putin hegemony took over…. And speaking of all of that, I wonder if they still make those white thingamajigies?….. Then we had that rich guy with a pawn shop which morphed into a concert hall….. What the hell was that all about?…… I still can’t figure that one out….I wonder if any of those hair bands are still around?….My great-grandkids don’t have a clue what I am talking about either when I say “pawn shop” or “concert hall”…… A course, they watch all of their favorite music at home with the help of holograms, if they are not spending all of their time inside Virtually Reality VI…They have very little time for the physical world, you know?…. And they can’t understand how or why something would last long enough to be saved and or pawned…… Then do you remember the “Dutch Wonder?”…… Yep, he became mayor and everyone thought everything was just going to be so great, but a course it all began to go down hill when that Bruce guy figured out that there was an intensity of code violations that could be correlated to blog commenters’ domiciles, then it all unraveled….What happen to him, that mayor, you ask?…. Well, there was that other thing too, if you catch my drift, but a course that “thing” wouldn’t matter now, but it still did with some back then… And where is he now?….. Well, last I knew, he was sentenced to a island on Lake Okiboji…… Okiboji, you ask? Yep, it was the closest functional island to Orange City…. Then how about the time when an alien spaceship sucked Trump up during a South Lawn ceremony, boy that was something to see…. I still remember the looks on the Secret Service agents when that happen…. Some looked at it all in sheer dismay, while others began to clap…. Then, because of it, we had the constitutional crisis about whether Pence was President, because there was no proof of the 45s full demise….But then a crop formation showed up a few months later in the South of England which said in broken alien English “You are Welcome”…… Then after that, it was all cleared up and by that time Biden won the presidency…. But then who would have ever thought that Biden knew Stormy’s cousin, and that the cousin was in the business too, oh well, such is life…… 😉 “

  3. hornguy on May 3, 2018 at 6:02 pm said:

    I did have the pleasure of getting to know Sylvia while I was living in Sioux Falls. Aside from being at our orchestra concerts, she did a lot of work in facilitating our outreach performances at area retirement communities. I promise you, you’d never sound like a better, more accomplished person than when Sylvia introduced you. By the time I left I’m pretty sure I was the greatest horn player in the galaxy, or something like that.

    She was a class act and a real gem.

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