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Chairman's Letter
by Ray Grant
Great news! The Foundation has 102 paid members. Since most of these are family memberships, we have a potential of over 200 people involved with the Foundation. We also have 26 volunteer members (people with over 100 volunteer hours in a year at the Museum), and 4 life members.
Not as great is the fact that most of the work of the Foundation is done by just a few people. One hundred thirty cards were sent out about the volunteer workday at the Museum on April 17 and only 8 people showed up. We will try a volunteer day again in the fall and hopefully get more people to come and help. Remember you can go to the Museum and volunteer any day. Over 120 people had a total of 9645 volunteer hours in 2003. The Museum NEEDS these volunteer hours to be able to continue all of its programs.
The Twelfth Annual Minerals of Arizona Symposium was very good this year. There was a great variety of speakers with very interesting topics. We are very fortunate that people are willing to come and make presentations at the symposium. Thanks to all the speakers. Also thanks to Harry Jong, Lavone Archer, and Cynthia Grant for putting together the proceedings and the packets for the attendees. Darrel Dodd and Lavone Archer ran the silent auction. Sue and Stan Celestian made sure that there was plenty to eat and drink.
All of the A.L. Flagg Distinguished Service Award winners were at the symposium - Marc Watson, Ben Benham, Ray Grant, Les Presmyk, Anna Domitrovic, and this year's winner Steve Decker.
Coming this fall, Family Day in October. We will have a workday at the trailer before the sale to sort and price the new material that we have acquired in the past few months. There will be a member's only sale on Friday night, so the few of you who have not paid please send in your dues. We will also try to have a field trip or two, so look for your September newsletter and HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!
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