I am passing this message about the Bell Museum along to MOU membership for your information. Hide message history
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:28 AM, Robert Zink <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Roy Zimmerman. I hope you're enjoying leading the MOU. > >I am writing to ask if the MOU can help support the Bell Museum achieve our >dream of a new facility next to the St Paul campus. As you know, we have >tried unsuccessfully several times to get a new museum building. This >legislative meeting we feel that we have the strongest support ever in both >house and senate, and our hopes for a new museum plus planetarium building are >high. But as you know, politics, like rare birds, can turn up anywhere. > >I am hoping that you can share with your members and post on your website a >link to the Bell Museum's advisory board >http://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/Information/AdvisoryBoard/index.htm, where many >of the details of how citizens can help, and send out the attached brochure. > >We think it is very important that legislators hear from as many citizens as >possible, and given the long history of the Bell and MOU, we hope we can >garner your support. We share a strong desire and vision of an >environmentally educated public, and the MOU is one of Minnesota's great >examples. > >Feel free to contact me or the board chair Steve Birke. > >I hope to see you at a future MOU annual meeting at the new site! > >Thanks > >Bob Zink > > >-- > >Dr. Robert M. Zink >Breckenridge Chair in Ornithology, Bell Museum >Professor, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior >100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle >Univ. of Minnesota >St. Paul, MN 55108 >office ph: 612 624 7207612 624 7207612 624 7207612 624 7207, fax 612 624 6777 >email: [email protected] >web: www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/contacts/robert-m-zink/ > > > Roy Zimmerman President MOU * ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
