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Memorial Service for Former ESTA Secretary Erik Magnuson
Erik Magnuson of Atlanta Georgia, and Franconia, New Hampshire, passed away suddenly on November 30, 2006. He was 55.
Erik was born in New Bedford, Mass., grew up on Chapoquoit Island in West Falmouth, Mass., and spent many summers in the New Hampshire White Mountains. Son of Dr. Paul Magnuson and Dorothy Floyd Magnuson, Erik was one of five siblings, (Peter, Pamela, Philip and Michael). In his childhood years Erik became an avid mountain hiker and skier, as a young teen he excelled in competitive sailing on Cape Cod and in his high school and college years was a student of the classics and photography. Throughout his entire life he was a great lover of baseball and bluegrass. His first job while in high school was at the Saconesset Homestead, an early Cape Cod farm museum in West Falmouth, where he had his first exposure to museum work. He graduated from Lawrence High School in Falmouth with Honors and earned a degree in classical archeology at New York University.
Erik’s college years included a rich range of endeavors and adventures, which included archeological digs in Europe, the Woodstock Festival of 1969, studies in photography and political activism. Following college, he joined a college roommate in Atlanta to work on a documentary film production team and then ventured into theater set construction, eventually becoming a technical director at the Alliance Theater. In 1979, he met his wife Linda and they co-founded The Magnum Companies, Ltd. which grew into a full service production company, specializing in school, theater and museum lighting. He and Linda moved to Candler Park, with stepson Todd Finch, where daughter Ingrid was born. Most recently Erik did the lighting design for the Mammoth Caves in Kentucky and the Pottery Museum in Sautee, Georgia.
As his career and Magnum developed, the company grew to a 16 person establishment. He became a valued member of the Entertainment Services & Technology Association (ESTA) over the years, where he has served as Secretary since 1989. As the company and his career grew, one thing stayed the same and that was Erik’s firm desire and belief to give back to the community that gave to him. Notable recognition of this was in 1998, when Erik won the Atlanta ISES Chapter Dale Riggins Humanitarian award.
Throughout his life Erik had a special love for the mountains and woods of Northern New Hampshire where he had hiked and camped with his family and friends from earliest childhood and where the Magnuson family still shares a home in Franconia.
Erik is survived by his wife, Linda; children, Ingrid and Todd Finch; sister Pamela and brothers Peter, Philip and Michael who love him dearly and will miss him.
A Memorial Service to Celebrate Erik Magnuson’s Life will be held on Sunday, December 10th, 2006 at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens (2:30pm – 6:00pm).
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made to The ESTA Foundation charity Behind the Scenes (http://www.estafoundation.org) or to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
7th December 2006
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