I agree with Val. I had been looking forward to this report, but I certainly would like to see it re-presented in another manner, so I can read it without the digs at women birders. What must the rest of the country think of Minnesota? There are probably as many women birders in MN as there are men birders, do we ever see this type of 'humor' directed by women toward men?
You just opened up another contentious problem online... I wish you hadn't. I hope there's an apology out there right now for the women whose actual names were mentioned... Holly Peirson Minnesota Woman Birder Anoka Co. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Val/Roger Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:52 PM To: Randy Frederickson; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [mnbird] Expense info.- Final tally You know, humor is a tough gig, shouldn't be attempted by amateurs. What an odd and sophomoric way to present some very salient information . . . Val Cunningham St. Paul, Minn. (Spent some money on owling this winter, don't feel included in this sappy report.) on 4/15/05 2:52 PM, Randy Frederickson at [email protected] wrote: > Final numbers have been tallied for those who submitted expense information > (I'm still open to more data though, for those of you who haven't submitted > yet). > > I was hoping we could break $200,000 for our Minnesota winter travel birding > expenses. It was close, thankfully some of the misc. categories were really > large. Thanks to Ron Erpelding, John Hockema, Bob Janssen, and Roger > Schroeder for including the money they spent on women while birding- that > was an additional $10,000...wait, that was just for Hockema. > > And thanks to Jerry Bonkoski, Al Batt, Phil Chu and Chris Benson for > including their $5,000 alcohol purchases while birding... or was that just > Benson's part? > > Have to draw the line somewhere, though, so I did NOT accept the expenses > submitted by Craig Mendel for the psychiatrist bills after spending birding > time with Conny Brunell and Leslie Marcus. > > So the final numbers are...............drum roll please................ > > Responses= approximately 265 > Birders represented= approximately 720 (excluding Karla's 500 for her > Festival of Owls) > Money documented= $226,168.00 > > Fran Howard and myself are now trying to determine the % of birders who > traveled here that we actually heard from and will extrapolate/project our > final numbers using that information. > > Thanks Fran for the help! > > Randy Frederickson > > P.S. If I have offended anyone, please contact my sister Sew Soree. > > > _______________________________________________ > mnbird mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mnbird.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mnbird _______________________________________________ mnbird mailing list [email protected] http://www.mnbird.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mnbird
