Addenda: Listmember Brian Blum has/used to have a Griffon, there are pictures of it in his photo album. DF
> In a message dated 6/11/01 3:31:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jet@sciti.com
> writes:
>
> << All this talk about McLean Fonvielle has me wondering how and when he
> passed away and at what age? >>
>
> In his late teens, Mclean returned to the USA in the early 1970s, having
> spent time studying frame building in Britain at Holdsworth.. I am not
sure
> exactly of the time he "opened shop" but I bought my first (of many)
frames
> from him in maybe early 1974..
>
> He was a fit, slender, non-smoker, casual drinker (wine with dinner most
> likely..) with a relaxed demeanor....he was the opposite the stereotype of
a
> person at risk.. He married happily and built a new house in Durham, N.C.
not
> far from his rural startup spot, Saxapahaw, NC, near Silk Hope.
> One evening as he was riding his exercise bike in the basement, he just
> collapsed dead. It was discovered to be a massive heart failure due to a
> previously undiagnosed defect, likely congenital. He was not quite 30
years
> old!
>
>
> Dale Brown
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