texascavers Digest 17 Jan 2014 21:35:15 -0000 Issue 1915
texascavers Digest 17 Jan 2014 21:35:15 - Issue 1915 Topics (messages 23276 through 23286): Re: Neversink frozen winter splendor : 23276 by: Josh Rubinstein Re: Bomb In Hays County Cave 23277 by: Julie Jenkins Bat size minidrone 23278 by: Lee H. Skinner Re: Winter TSA Business Meeting minutes 23279 by: Jacqueline Thomas Texas Memorial Museum demise 23280 by: Ron Ralph 23281 by: Diana Tomchick 23282 by: Katherine Arens 23283 by: Andy Gluesenkamp 23284 by: dirtdoc.comcast.net 23285 by: R D Milhollin 23286 by: James Jasek Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: texascavers-digest-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: texascavers-digest-unsubscr...@texascavers.com To post to the list, e-mail: texascavers@texascavers.com -- ---BeginMessage--- It is not the first time Neversink froze. I was in Alabama the winter of 1983-84. There was a hard freeze that lasted for days. I remember walking up on Stephen's Gap and globe of ice covered branches around the entrances. So much ice had accumulate on the rope from the night before that we could not haul it and to rig a hauling system to lower the rope to the lower entrance and pull it out. I remember Buddy Lane gardening the ice off the wall of Valhalla and then making the rope sing. That summer one two cavers were integrated into the rock, when the roof of alcove we all used to protects us from any rock dislodge by climbers collapsed on them. Some time it is not the freeze but the thaw that kills. And, yes, I remember. While writing this e-mail, I traveled to the Southeast Cave Conservancy web page. Steve Hudson, the owner of PMI, has died. No better friend to cavers. No better caver. Josh On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:03 AM, scott grimes scottgrime...@gmail.comwrote: A fellow texas caver Rachel Saker, (from the aggie grotto) also dropped neversink during the big freeze in alabama, I'd expect her to post pictures to facebook sometime soon. Very cool looking! scott On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:53 PM, jerryat...@aol.com wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2539778/Alabama-cave-freezes-time-explorers-discover-hundreds-glistening-ice-stalagmite.html?ITO=1490ns_mchannel=rssns_campaign=1490 Sent from my iPhone - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Is anyone working on Hays Co caves? There was a neighborhood location in the article! Just curious?! jules Sent from my iPhone On Jan 15, 2014, at 11:53 PM, ryan monjaras trog...@hotmail.com wrote: Here's the best source I've found so far. http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news?fId=240379931fPath=/news/local/fDomain=10232 Semper Exploro Ryan Monjaras Maverick Grotto Cowtown Grotto DFW Grotto UT Grotto Bexar Grotto Greater Houston Grotto TSA TCMA Lost Oasis Preserve Manager (832)754-5778 ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Now if we could only get it to autonomously explore and photograph high leads: http://tinyurl.com/k45qabw ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- I just finished reading the minutes from the Winter Meeting. Very well done, Heather, and to all attendees: You covered a lot of ground in a short time! Jacqui On Jan 16, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Heather Tucek wrote: The minutes from the winter Business Meeting for the Texas Speleological Association from last Sunday are now available to be viewed online! http://www.cavetexas.org/PDF/TSA/Minutes-2014-01-12_Winter_TSA_Business_Meeting.pdf -- Go find out! -Heather Tuček UT Grotto, DFW Grotto TSA Secretary Membership Chair NSS 59660 (512) 773-1348 trog...@cavechat.org ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Mary, How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke? Ron You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory. Your address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has been forwarded to you on their behalf. You can update your profile and allow other UT grads to contact you at www.texasexes.org/directory. Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty that can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots effort called Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many thousand signatures on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of the College of Natural Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th
texascavers Digest 17 Jan 2014 22:59:57 -0000 Issue 1916
texascavers Digest 17 Jan 2014 22:59:57 - Issue 1916 Topics (messages 23287 through 23290): Re: Texas Memorial Museum demise 23287 by: Ron Ralph 23288 by: Katherine Arens 23289 by: Louise Power 23290 by: Andy Gluesenkamp Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: texascavers-digest-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: texascavers-digest-unsubscr...@texascavers.com To post to the list, e-mail: texascavers@texascavers.com -- ---BeginMessage--- From: Jeri Putnam Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 4:03 PM To: Ron Ralph Subject: Re: Texas Memorial Museum demise Hi Ron, We tried to make an appointment for Jan.15, but that was in the middle of the first week of the semester and she wasn't available. Mary and I are meeting with her and two of her staff on Feb. 3 at 11:30. We have a Facebook page (facebook.com/SaveTMM) where I will be posting updates as they happen. Currently we have 910 signatures, hoping for 1000, and the petition is online at ipetitions/petition/SaveOurMuseum. Mary was interviewed this week by a reporter from the Austin Chronicle, and we hope to see a story in the next week or two. Thanks to you and your group for your help! Jeri Putnam From: Ron Ralph ronra...@austin.rr.com To: jputnam1...@att.net Cc: Texas Cavers Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 1:56 PM Subject: Texas Memorial Museum demise Mary, How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke? Ron You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory. Your address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has been forwarded to you on their behalf. You can update your profile and allow other UT grads to contact you at www.texasexes.org/directory. Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty that can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots effort called Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many thousand signatures on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of the College of Natural Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th anniversary of the museum’s opening. We have a Facebook page and a group on meetup.com, where details of our first meeting are. Please “Like” us on Facebook and RSVP on meetup.com. You can sign the petition in person at our first gathering, the details of which are on meetup.com. Or, we will email you the petition which you can sign and mail back to us. Thank you in advance for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and Jeri Putnam ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- that seems highly unlikely; there's a police station two blocks away that's more likely a target, and the old middle school, etc. You don't take down buildings to put up parking lots -- you turn parking lots into parking garages, and there's still a lot of that to be infilled k On Jan 17, 2014, at 3:35 PM, James Jasek wrote: If this is true there is no way to stop the project. I hope the museum contents will be preserved Jim Sent from my iPhone On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Andy Gluesenkamp andrew_gluesenk...@yahoo.commailto:andrew_gluesenk...@yahoo.com wrote: Word is that the property the museum sits on is slated to become another parking lot. That's a goo money maker (so close to the stadium). Who says athletics doesn't rob from academics? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Katherine Arens ar...@austin.utexas.edumailto:ar...@austin.utexas.edu wrote: Amen to that. To those of you who are mad you can no longer park free anywhere at UT, this is another innovation of the current regime: our facilities are underutilized and need to be charged at current rates. So the little guys get nickled and dimed to death, and the state of Texas loses important resources and resource stewardship. Real Americans pay for their parking, you see . . .(how's the parking at AM?) k On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Diana Tomchick wrote: Wouldn't it also be productive to look into a different funding source? Money is tight in all areas of academia these days, and especially in the sciences. Why not try going straight to the politicians there in Austin, they're the ones that control how much money winds up at UT and the College of Natural Sciences? Diana * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Diana R. Tomchick Professor University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Department of Biophysics 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Rm. ND10.214A Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A. Email:
[Texascavers] a vertical practice video
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Re: [SWR] CaveDigger -- Oscar nominated movie
Steve, I hope public tours become possible - we would love to see this in person! Regards, John -Original Message- From: swr-boun...@caver.net [mailto:swr-boun...@caver.net] On Behalf Of Steve Peerman Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 5:12 PM To: Mailing List for SWR Subject: [SWR] CaveDigger -- Oscar nominated movie All, Check this out! Not our kind of cave digging, but just the same . . . The movie was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary. http://mynm.us/1j9Vzvc Steve Peerman Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. attributed to Mark Twain, but no record exists of his having written this. ___ SWR mailing list s...@caver.net http://lists.caver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swr ___ This list is provided free as a courtesy of CAVERNET ___ SWR mailing list s...@caver.net http://lists.caver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swr ___ This list is provided free as a courtesy of CAVERNET
Re: [SWR] CaveDigger -- Oscar nominated movie
Well, IMHO, these are 100% dug-out mines, not caves. Lee From:swr-boun...@caver.net [mailto:swr-boun...@caver.net] On Behalf Of Steve Peerman Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 5:12 PM To: Mailing List for SWR Subject: [SWR] CaveDigger -- Oscar nominated movie All, Check this out! Not our kind of cave digging, but just the same . . . The movie was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary. http://mynm.us/1j9Vzvc Steve Peerman ___ SWR mailing list s...@caver.net http://lists.caver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swr ___ This list is provided free as a courtesy of CAVERNET
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I'll second that. Logan On 1/17/2014 9:59 PM, Lee H. Skinner wrote: Well, IMHO, these are 100% dug-out mines, not caves. Lee From:swr-boun...@caver.net [mailto:swr-boun...@caver.net] On Behalf Of Steve Peerman Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 5:12 PM To: Mailing List for SWR Subject: [SWR] CaveDigger -- Oscar nominated movie All, Check this out! Not our kind of cave digging, but just the same . . . The movie was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary. http://mynm.us/1j9Vzvc Steve Peerman ___ SWR mailing list s...@caver.net http://lists.caver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swr ___ This list is provided free as a courtesy of CAVERNET ___ SWR mailing list s...@caver.net http://lists.caver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swr ___ This list is provided free as a courtesy of CAVERNET
[Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise
Mary, How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke? Ron You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory. Your address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has been forwarded to you on their behalf. You can update your profile and allow other UT grads to contact you at www.texasexes.org/directory. Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty that can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots effort called Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many thousand signatures on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of the College of Natural Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th anniversary of the museum’s opening. We have a Facebook page and a group on meetup.com, where details of our first meeting are. Please “Like” us on Facebook and RSVP on meetup.com. You can sign the petition in person at our first gathering, the details of which are on meetup.com. Or, we will email you the petition which you can sign and mail back to us. Thank you in advance for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and Jeri Putnam
Re: [Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise
Wouldn't it also be productive to look into a different funding source? Money is tight in all areas of academia these days, and especially in the sciences. Why not try going straight to the politicians there in Austin, they're the ones that control how much money winds up at UT and the College of Natural Sciences? Diana * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Diana R. Tomchick Professor University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Department of Biophysics 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Rm. ND10.214A Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A. Email: diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu 214-645-6383 (phone) 214-645-6353 (fax) On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Ron Ralph wrote: Mary, How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke? Ron You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory. Your address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has been forwarded to you on their behalf. You can update your profile and allow other UT grads to contact you at www.texasexes.org/directory. Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty that can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots effort called Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many thousand signatures on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of the College of Natural Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th anniversary of the museum’s opening. We have a Facebook page and a group on meetup.com, where details of our first meeting are. Please “Like” us on Facebook and RSVP on meetup.com. You can sign the petition in person at our first gathering, the details of which are on meetup.com. Or, we will email you the petition which you can sign and mail back to us. Thank you in advance for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and Jeri Putnam UT Southwestern Medical Center The future of medicine, today. - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise
Amen to that. To those of you who are mad you can no longer park free anywhere
at UT, this is another innovation of the current regime: our facilities are
underutilized and need to be charged at current rates. So the little guys
get nickled and dimed to death, and the state of Texas loses important
resources and resource stewardship. Real Americans pay for their parking, you
see . . .(how's the parking at AM?)
k
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Diana Tomchick wrote:
Wouldn't it also be productive to look into a different funding source? Money
is tight in all areas of academia these days, and especially in the sciences.
Why not try going straight to the politicians there in Austin, they're the ones
that control how much money winds up at UT and the College of Natural Sciences?
Diana
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biophysics
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214A
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email:
diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edumailto:diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Ron Ralph wrote:
Mary,
How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke?
Ron
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address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has been
forwarded to you on their behalf. You can update your profile and allow other
UT grads to contact you at
www.texasexes.org/directoryhttp://www.texasexes.org/directory.
Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an
anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many
years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all
funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty that
can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots effort called
Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many thousand signatures
on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of the College of Natural
Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th anniversary of the museum’s opening. We
have a Facebook page and a group on meetup.comhttp://meetup.com, where
details of our first meeting are. Please “Like” us on Facebook and RSVP on
meetup.comhttp://meetup.com. You can sign the petition in person at our first
gathering, the details of which are on meetup.comhttp://meetup.com. Or, we
will email you the petition which you can sign and mail back to us. Thank you
in advance for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and Jeri Putnam
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The future of medicine, today.
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Re: [Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise
Word is that the property the museum sits on is slated to become another
parking lot. That's a goo money maker (so close to the stadium). Who says
athletics doesn't rob from academics?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Katherine Arens ar...@austin.utexas.edu wrote:
Amen to that. To those of you who are mad you can no longer park free
anywhere at UT, this is another innovation of the current regime: our
facilities are underutilized and need to be charged at current rates. So
the little guys get nickled and dimed to death, and the state of Texas loses
important resources and resource stewardship. Real Americans pay for their
parking, you see . . .(how's the parking at AM?)
k
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Diana Tomchick wrote:
Wouldn't it also be productive to look into a different funding source?
Money is tight in all areas of academia these days, and especially in the
sciences. Why not try going straight to the politicians there in Austin,
they're the ones that control how much money winds up at UT and the College
of Natural Sciences?
Diana
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biophysics
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214A
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email: diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Ron Ralph wrote:
Mary,
How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke?
Ron
You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory. Your
address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has been
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Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an
anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many
years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all
funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty
that can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots
effort called Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many
thousand signatures on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of
the College of Natural Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th anniversary of
the museum’s opening. We have a Facebook page and a group on meetup.com,
where details of our first meeting are. Please “Like” us on Facebook and
RSVP on meetup.com. You can sign the petition in person at our first
gathering, the details of which are on meetup.com. Or, we will email you
the petition which you can sign and mail back to us. Thank you in advance
for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and Jeri Putnam
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The future of medicine, today.
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Dept. Phone: (512) 471-4123
Dept. of Germanic Studies
FAX (512) 471-4025
2505 University Ave, C3300
Bldg.Location: Burdine 336
University of Texas at Austin
Office: Burdine 320
Austin, TX 78712-1802
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[Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise
Ron: Jerks. Perhaps College of Unnatural Sciences?? Send me the petition to sign, if it will still do any good. Your E-mail said January 15, which was two days ago. Send it via e-mail, we are not at the moment in Terlingua. We are on our way to the karst of Cuba - back in Feb. Dwight Dwight Deal dirt...@comcast.net PO Box 10 Terlingua, TX 79852 - Original Message - From: Ron Ralph ronra...@austin.rr.com To: jputnam1...@att.net Cc: Texas Cavers Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12:56:39 PM Subject: [Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise Mary, How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke?
Re: [Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise
If you want to see some fast back-pedaling find a way to offer A M the option to take the Texas Memorial Museum to College Station. The governor would love it but the legislature would probably not allow it to happen. On Friday, January 17, 2014 3:03 PM, dirt...@comcast.net dirt...@comcast.net wrote: Ron: Jerks. Perhaps College of Unnatural Sciences?? Send me the petition to sign, if it will still do any good. Your E-mail said January 15, which was two days ago. Send it via e-mail, we are not at the moment in Terlingua. We are on our way to the karst of Cuba - back in Feb. Dwight Dwight Deal dirt...@comcast.net PO Box 10 Terlingua, TX 79852 From: Ron Ralph ronra...@austin.rr.com To: jputnam1...@att.net Cc: Texas Cavers Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12:56:39 PM Subject: [Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise Mary, How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke?
Re: [Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise
If this is true there is no way to stop the project. I hope the museum contents
will be preserved
Jim
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Andy Gluesenkamp andrew_gluesenk...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Word is that the property the museum sits on is slated to become another
parking lot. That's a goo money maker (so close to the stadium). Who says
athletics doesn't rob from academics?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Katherine Arens ar...@austin.utexas.edu wrote:
Amen to that. To those of you who are mad you can no longer park free
anywhere at UT, this is another innovation of the current regime: our
facilities are underutilized and need to be charged at current rates.
So the little guys get nickled and dimed to death, and the state of Texas
loses important resources and resource stewardship. Real Americans pay for
their parking, you see . . .(how's the parking at AM?)
k
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Diana Tomchick wrote:
Wouldn't it also be productive to look into a different funding source?
Money is tight in all areas of academia these days, and especially in the
sciences. Why not try going straight to the politicians there in Austin,
they're the ones that control how much money winds up at UT and the College
of Natural Sciences?
Diana
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biophysics
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214A
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email: diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Ron Ralph wrote:
Mary,
How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke?
Ron
You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory.
Your address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has
been forwarded to you on their behalf. You can update your profile and
allow other UT grads to contact you at www.texasexes.org/directory.
Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an
anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many
years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut
all funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a
travesty that can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a
grassroots effort called Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to
gather many thousand signatures on a protest petition and deliver it to
Dean Hicke of the College of Natural Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th
anniversary of the museum’s opening. We have a Facebook page and a group
on meetup.com, where details of our first meeting are. Please “Like” us on
Facebook and RSVP on meetup.com. You can sign the petition in person at
our first gathering, the details of which are on meetup.com. Or, we will
email you the petition which you can sign and mail back to us. Thank you
in advance for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and Jeri Putnam
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The future of medicine, today.
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[Texascavers] Fw: Texas Memorial Museum demise
From: Jeri Putnam Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 4:03 PM To: Ron Ralph Subject: Re: Texas Memorial Museum demise Hi Ron, We tried to make an appointment for Jan.15, but that was in the middle of the first week of the semester and she wasn't available. Mary and I are meeting with her and two of her staff on Feb. 3 at 11:30. We have a Facebook page (facebook.com/SaveTMM) where I will be posting updates as they happen. Currently we have 910 signatures, hoping for 1000, and the petition is online at ipetitions/petition/SaveOurMuseum. Mary was interviewed this week by a reporter from the Austin Chronicle, and we hope to see a story in the next week or two. Thanks to you and your group for your help! Jeri Putnam From: Ron Ralph ronra...@austin.rr.com To: jputnam1...@att.net Cc: Texas Cavers Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 1:56 PM Subject: Texas Memorial Museum demise Mary, How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke? Ron You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory. Your address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has been forwarded to you on their behalf. You can update your profile and allow other UT grads to contact you at www.texasexes.org/directory. Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty that can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots effort called Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many thousand signatures on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of the College of Natural Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th anniversary of the museum’s opening. We have a Facebook page and a group on meetup.com, where details of our first meeting are. Please “Like” us on Facebook and RSVP on meetup.com. You can sign the petition in person at our first gathering, the details of which are on meetup.com. Or, we will email you the petition which you can sign and mail back to us. Thank you in advance for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and Jeri Putnam
Re: [Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise
that seems highly unlikely; there's a police station two blocks away that's
more likely a target, and the old middle school, etc. You don't take down
buildings to put up parking lots -- you turn parking lots into parking garages,
and there's still a lot of that to be infilled
k
On Jan 17, 2014, at 3:35 PM, James Jasek wrote:
If this is true there is no way to stop the project. I hope the museum contents
will be preserved
Jim
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On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Andy Gluesenkamp
andrew_gluesenk...@yahoo.commailto:andrew_gluesenk...@yahoo.com wrote:
Word is that the property the museum sits on is slated to become another
parking lot. That's a goo money maker (so close to the stadium). Who says
athletics doesn't rob from academics?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Katherine Arens
ar...@austin.utexas.edumailto:ar...@austin.utexas.edu wrote:
Amen to that. To those of you who are mad you can no longer park free anywhere
at UT, this is another innovation of the current regime: our facilities are
underutilized and need to be charged at current rates. So the little guys
get nickled and dimed to death, and the state of Texas loses important
resources and resource stewardship. Real Americans pay for their parking, you
see . . .(how's the parking at AM?)
k
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Diana Tomchick wrote:
Wouldn't it also be productive to look into a different funding source? Money
is tight in all areas of academia these days, and especially in the sciences.
Why not try going straight to the politicians there in Austin, they're the ones
that control how much money winds up at UT and the College of Natural Sciences?
Diana
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Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biophysics
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214A
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email:
diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edumailto:diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Ron Ralph wrote:
Mary,
How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke?
Ron
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www.texasexes.org/directoryhttp://www.texasexes.org/directory.
Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an
anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many
years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all
funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty that
can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots effort called
Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many thousand signatures
on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of the College of Natural
Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th anniversary of the museum’s opening. We
have a Facebook page and a group on meetup.comhttp://meetup.com/, where
details of our first meeting are. Please “Like” us on Facebook and RSVP on
meetup.comhttp://meetup.com/. You can sign the petition in person at our
first gathering, the details of which are on meetup.comhttp://meetup.com/.
Or, we will email you the petition which you can sign and mail back to us.
Thank you in advance for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and Jeri
Putnam
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The future of medicine, today.
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RE: [Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise
As the old song goes, they're tearing down paradise to put up a parking lot.
CC: diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu; jputnam1...@att.net;
Texascavers@texascavers.com
From: andrew_gluesenk...@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:59:35 -0600
To: ar...@austin.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Texas Memorial Museum demise
Word is that the property the museum sits on is slated to become another
parking lot. That's a goo money maker (so close to the stadium). Who says
athletics doesn't rob from academics?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Katherine Arens ar...@austin.utexas.edu wrote:
Amen to that. To those of you who are mad you can no longer park free anywhere
at UT, this is another innovation of the current regime: our facilities are
underutilized and need to be charged at current rates. So the little guys
get nickled and dimed to death, and the state of Texas loses important
resources and resource stewardship. Real Americans pay for their parking, you
see . . .(how's the parking at AM?)
k
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Diana Tomchick wrote:
Wouldn't it also be productive to look into a different funding source? Money
is tight in all areas of academia these days, and especially in the sciences.
Why not try going straight to the politicians there in Austin, they're the ones
that control how much money winds up at UT and the College of Natural Sciences?
Diana
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Diana R. Tomchick
Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biophysics
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214A
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email: diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Ron Ralph wrote:
Mary,
How did it go giving the petition to Dean Hicke?
Ron
You are receiving this e-mail through the Texas Exes Alumni Directory. Your
address has not been disclosed to the sender of the e-mail, but has been
forwarded to you on their behalf. You can update your profile and allow other
UT grads to contact you at www.texasexes.org/directory.
Dear Ronald, My name is Mary Newcomb, daughter of William W. Newcomb, an
anthropology professor and Director of the Texas Memorial Museum for many
years. You may have heard that the College of Natural Sciences will cut all
funding - $620,000 – to the museum beginning next year. This is a travesty that
can not be tolerated! My husband and I have started a grassroots effort called
Save the Texas Memorial Museum. Our goal is to gather many thousand signatures
on a protest petition and deliver it to Dean Hicke of the College of Natural
Sciences on Jan. 15, 2014 – the 75th anniversary of the museum’s opening. We
have a Facebook page and a group on meetup.com, where details of our first
meeting are. Please “Like” us on Facebook and RSVP on meetup.com. You can sign
the petition in person at our first gathering, the details of which are on
meetup.com. Or, we will email you the petition which you can sign and mail back
to us. Thank you in advance for your support! Kindest regards, Mary Newcomb and
Jeri Putnam
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The future of medicine, today.
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