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AMMMF and John McCain by Ray Grant
In 1988, Harvey Smith joined forces with the Flagg Foundation and the Arizona Mineral and Mining Museum Foundation was formed using the articles of incorporation of the Flagg Foundation. Ed Flagg was the first chairman of the newly named group and Harvey Smith was vice-chairman and executive director. Harvey had plans to make the Mineral Museum a great place. He formed an Honorary Board for the Foundation and the chairman of this Honorary Board was John McCain, U.S. Senator – AZ. John McCain’s name and title appear on the stationary that Harvey designed for the new Foundation. I was not involved with the Foundation at this time and I have never seen correspondence with John McCain about the Foundation, but he must have agreed to take the honorary position for his name to be on our stationary. So it is possible that our Foundation might have had the President of the United States as an Honorary Board member in the past. We will know in November. |
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Chairman’s Letter
Some of the most important activities of the Foundation are our annual sales. We sell donated minerals at the Flagg Show, the Symposium and at Family day in October. These are our major fund raising events for the year. Producing The Flagg Show makes us a small profit, but not enough to cover our expenses for the year. The show is in part a public service, as we let all the clubs set up and find new members, raise funds, etc. There are many educational activities for children, and it is a promotion for the Museum. We try to keep the cost of the annual Minerals of Arizona Symposium as low as possible so every one can attend. Some years we make a little and some years we are behind, but this part of our educational program, and our mineral sales make up the difference. You can see the sales are very important. The point of all this is that we desperately need donations of specimens for our sales. To make things easier we will have a special Donation Day at the Museum on Saturday December 6 from 11 AM to 4 PM. You can bring your boxes of minerals to donate, we will have them appraised and write you a donation letter for tax purposes. If you start now to sort through your minerals and put some aside for a donation, you may have a big tax deduction by the time you go to the Tucson Gem Show! If you can’t make it December 6, let us know and we will make arrangements to pick up your donation. Thank you all in advance for being generous and helping out. |
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Jim Ricker, Evan Jones, and Marcus Oligeleri tackle the southwest wall of the Collings Cut. |
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More Pictures from Tiger- By Chuck Kominski |
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Paul Jaeger working in the east wall |