A spokeswoman for the foundation, Lynn Rasic, said last night, "We're not familiar with the proposal, but it's the foundation's responsibility to build a fitting memorial in a way that maximizes the money being raised for this effort".
Tutte died in 2002 at the age of 84 in Canada, Graham Newman, Suffolk County Council cabinet member for roads, planning and transport, said: "This will be a fitting memorial built in Rutland Hill with an attractive public space created to host public performances, occasional market days and a feature memorial of Bill Tutte".
At once vast and intimate, Mediterranean-Classical in its sunlight and German-Romantic in its expressive depth, it is also a fitting memorial to its composer.
"The site plan will need to be adjusted in order to incorporate an appropriate and fitting memorial," said Kevin M. Rampe, president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which ran the memorial competition.
That would be a fitting memorial for Myron Yarde, stabbed in south London this month, and a more helpful reaction to similar deaths that seem all too likely to continue.
"If we have to adjust the site plan in order to ensure that an appropriate and fitting memorial can be incorporated, we will do so," he said.
Naming ATF headquarters after him would not only be a fitting memorial to a laudable career in public service, it would further encourage federal agents to follow his example.
At this 70th anniversary, it would be a most fitting memorial for world leaders to steep themselves in accounts of the first atomic devastation.
"In the past, we had the comfort of gathering at a fitting memorial," he said.
We hope the "Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Awards" will be a fitting memorial to what the man believed was right in the game.
