This is great news. A long, hard effort from many people went into this win. Next: let's focus on saving the Jaques murals.
Tom Klein St. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Manley Olson Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 1:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mou-net] The Bell is finally moving While it did not get any major publicity, buried in the work that the Legislature completed yesterday was $51.5M for the Bell Museum to move to the St Paul campus. This will not cover the total cost of the move so there will be the need for a significant fund raising campaign. You will be hearing more about that. Thanks to all of you who contacted legislators and University officials in support of this major effort. Please be sure to thank your legislators for their work. Special thanks are due to Representative Alice Hausman. Without her vision, political skill and tenacity, this would not have happened. Others deserving our thanks are President Eric Kaler and Dean Brian Buhr of the University of Minnesota and Steve Birke, Lee Pfannmueller and the Bell Advisory Board who were tireless in their efforts as was Bell Director Susan Weller. It has been a long journey but the end is in sight. I look forward to the day when we can participate in the exhibits and educational programs of the new Bell and start of a new tradition of having our annual MOU Paper Session in what promises to be a spectacular facility. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
