In memory of Hugo "Huge-O" Steiner

Joined BH3 on run 57 on 5 August 1978, and completed 794 runs.

 A lasting legacy are his prized Cobra Run T-shirts, reaching an amazing total of 14 (consecutive ?) shirts by 2005.

His committee positions were:

1980/81     Hash Cash

1981/82     Hash Cash

1982/83     Joint Master

1983/84     Grand Master

1993/94     Hon Sec

 
    Early in the morning of Friday May18 2007, HUGE-O, alias Hugo Steiner, suffered a heart attack & departed to commence his Hash Runs in the big paddy field overhead, joining the company of Khun Pe Chunthong, Desert Island Derek Enscoe, Magic Tim Hughes, Long Bill Longhurst, Fred Sommer, Blaise McConnell, & Khun Prabhas Sakhunwadna.
 
Huge-O received his Hash Name in the early days, reflecting his substantial physical size & his christian name Hugo, which was soon rearranged to Huge-O. He was certainly in the Hash Bridge load testing department from the start . Hugo hailed from Switzerland, with a twin brother who is as slim as Huge-O was stout; initially  he worked with Diethelm & later established his own very successful business Aviatech, supplying hightech airport equipment to the airline industry at Don Muang & then Suvarnabhumi Airports.
 
Huge-O started running with BH3 in the company of other Diethelm Swiss Hash pioneers: Werner Morf, Heinz Brandli, & Renato Petruzzi, etc; in the early days H3 Membership almost seemed to be a condition of employment at Diethelm. He joined BH3 on 05 August 1978 at Run 57,  just over a year after its founding; the Hare was George Hopcroft who laid a trail down Sukhumvit Soi 77 with a pack of 32. Huge-O's commercial skills were soon tapped & he was appointed Hash Cash in 1980/81, obviously he did a good job with GM's traditional new car as he was reappointed in 1981/82, which was followed by a Joint Master appointment in 1982/83 alongside Gerry Johnson, with Magic as GM. At the memorable AGPU in June 1983, Magic chose to appoint a Thai Member Khun Som as GM, with Huge-O again a JM, but Khun Som declined the honour, so amid scenes of Hash Chaos, with Magic struggling to retain control of the AGPU, he promptly placed the crown on Huge-O & named him the GM. This was also the AGPU when Nonsec Derek Enscoe was appointed Onsec, only to pass up the honour when he realised the workload, & Brain Health stepped in to hold the pen, so AGPU's have not always been the slick affairs which they often appear. Huge-O ruled with support from JM's Knut Hertzer & Richard Leete, Blaise as Hashcash, Brain as Onsec & a young Bullet as Hash Music, Mike Davies with the Horn, Wolfgang Steutzel as Flash, John Baker as Sniff, Khun Pitak in his second year as Hash Piss, & Khun Prabas doing his first of many Hash Law appointments. Huge-O subsequently appointed Bullet as GM in June 1984, & then stepped back from the Mismanagement. However, no-one escapes the Onsec duties indefinitely & at the June 1993 AGPU, GM Prabas duly appointted Huge-0 to wield the pen in 1993/94. 
 
On 01 August 1992, Run 787, Huge-O, accompanied by his fellow Don Muang accomplice Tony Big Foot, went reckying in the old Cobra Swamp area, long talked of as the new airport. Maybe he knew something & went searching for land, but whatever, this was the first in his annual series of Cobra Swamp Runs which he hared for 14 consecutive years, until  Run 1456 on 28 May 2005, by when The Senator had become his accomplice.  Even the arrival of Le Pope & Italian Thai on his hallowed runsite, clearing trails & depositing sand fill for runways circa 1997/98 failed to dislodge him, he merely moved to new areas of the swamp, & tested the Pack's trail finding skills afresh. Finally after Cobra Run 14, he announced that he was reaching Huge Double-O size & would retire from Hare Duties, at which stage his last accomplice, the Senator picked up the trail & started his Snakehead Runs. Thereafter, Huge-O rarely appeared on BH3, other than for the Ex GM's Traditional Xmas Lunches, & occasionally playing golf with the Old Farts. Eventually, after joining the Senator's reception on May08, he played golf with Brain, Hags , Hema, & Wee Jimmeah on Thursday May 17 & was persuaded to make an appearance at the Run on Saturday May 19 out at Bang Yai area, his Run no 794. He came, no doubt with a full bridge load testing stature, & took a walk up the trail but soon turned back to the Beer Wagon. At the circle he received his welcome back Down Down then joined us for the OOO, which sadly, although only 62 years old, was the last we were to see of him. He leaves his dear wife Khun Yupa.
 
HUGE-O, wherever you are running hopefully the big K's are cold; only one special request, please do not nominate your old H3 mates to the Hareline any time soon.  

RIP, & On On.