Arizona Mineral and Mining Museum Foundation News

   Volume 11 Number 2                        In Memory of A. L. Flagg                                       Spring  2002

The Arizona Mineral and Mining Museum Foundation was formed to support the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum.

Chairman's Corner
I would like to start my first letter as chairman by writing about the Museum volunteers. Any Volunteer who works more than 100 hours in a year
at the Museum receives a free membership in the Foundation. In 2001 and there were 27 people who worked more than 100 hours. These 27 people
worked almost 10,000 hours last year. Volunteers help with all the various children's activities, help with the preparation of teacher's kits, man the desk and help visitors, work in the gift shop, and help
with many other projects. Without the volunteers, the Museum staff would not be able to carry out all of the important programs.

The leading volunteer is Doug Duffy, with more than 1785 volunteer hours.  Second place goes to Dane Brown (deceased) and Karl Baker each with over 750 hours. Charlie Connell and Shirley Cote had over 600 hours each. Hats off to all the volunteers, thank you all, and keep up the good work.

BUT, more volunteers are needed. There are increasing educational  activities and other projects that need manpower. So If you have a few hours to spare, please stop by the Museum and see what you can do to help.

While on the subject of volunteering, I hope that the Foundation members will help with all of our projects for the coming year. All members are
welcome at board meetings - the next one is March 14 and we will plan activities for the remainder of the year. Members are welcome (urged) to write

articles for our  newsletter.

On March 23 we are having our tenth symposium on the Minerals of Arizona, I hope you will join us for this annual event.

On April 6, thanks to the efforts of Les Presmyk, we are having a trip to the Red Cloud mine (details in this news letter). You must be a Foundation
member to attend this trip so send in your membership dues or come to the March meeting and join. With your help this can be a great year for the Foundation.

Ray Grant

Karl Baker shares the Mineral Lore

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