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Re: Corporate donor gripe
From:
ed sharpe <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:57:00 -0700
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it is good to see people do things that need to be done because it is  a
neat thing to do.... not just out of  personal  or coperate lust!

ed!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ross Weeks" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Corporate donor gripe


> And how about the taxpayer in Arlington, Va. who decided a $540 state
income
> tax on his $100,000 income was too low.  This week he sent several
thousands
> as gifts to a few public schools in the impoverished southwestern Va.
> mountains, explaining that the gifts were in lieu of the taxes he thought
he
> should be paying.
> Ross Weeks Jr.
> Historic Crab Orchard Museum & Pioneer Park
> Tazewell, Va.
> http://histcrab.netscope.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David E. Haberstich" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 1:08 AM
> Subject: Re: Corporate donor gripe
>
>
> > In a message dated 02-03-04 19:13:59 EST, Jim Lyons wrote:
> >
> > << It's too bad that more people can't be like the person who donated an
> >  enormous amount of money to build the indoor theater at the Oregon
> >  Shakespeare Festival.  When asked, she suggested (insisted?) that the
> >  theater not be named for her, but for Angus Bowmer, the Festival
> >  founder in 1935, and it's chief booster, supporter and leader the
> >  remaining 50 years of his life.  It's true, she spent her money for
> >  the Festival, but he spent his life.
> >   >>
> >
> > Three cheers for that donor!
> >
> > David Haberstich
> >
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