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Great! Thanks for all the hard work of all concerned. N

At 10:00 AM 7/10/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings to all, Board and Staff:
>
>I have terrific news.  The Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and
>Cultural Studies and the American Folklife Center will be
>collaborating on a major initiative to digitize and preserve our sound
>recordings.  The Save America's Treasures Program of the White House
>Milennium Programs has granted us $750,000 to accomplish this joint
>effort.  We will be working together to raise the $750,000 in matching
>monies.
>
>STAFF:
>Richard Kurin and I will be meeting this week and we will be calling
>a planning meeting asap of our two archival staffs to coordinate the
>initial activities and plan for the work to be done.
>
>BOARD:
>I will be in touch soon concerning the role that you can have to
>assist us in raising the matching funds.  I have great optimism that
>we will be able to raise much more than our 1-to-1 requirement, for
>this is a very compelling program.  Jan Lauridson of the LC
>development office will be working with us, as well as Josh Silver,
>Development Officer of the Smithsonian Folklife Office.
>
>More later, but I want to close by thanking two people:
>
>Ellen Lovell, who has been the heart and soul behind this effort and
>has been an advocate for us with enormous results.  We are looking
>forward to working with Ellen to put the project into place and we are
>very fortunate to have her input for all of our efforts as a very
>proactive board member!!
>
>Richard Kurin, who offered to collaboarte in a real and significant
>way with this project.  The Smithsonian is the hosting agency and was
>the office that had to submit the grant (LC is not eligible for these
>funds).  Richard did a masterful job of taking our ideas and dreams
>and putting them into a cogent and compelling grant application.
>
>My thanks to both Ellen and Richard and (as Mickey Hart would say) .
>. . . onward and upward!!!!
>
>Peggy
>
>
>
>Peggy A. Bulger, Director
>American Folklife Center
>Library of Congress
>101 Independence Ave, SE
>Washington, DC 20540-4610
>(202) 707-1745
>FAX (202) 707-2076
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>http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/
>
>

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Norma E. Cantu
Professor of English
Texas A&M International University
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Laredo, TX 78041-1990


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