In conversation during the past NSS convention, I was told that a large bequest ($500K) from Roger Sperka and an anonymous donation of $400K has very substantially reduced the balance the NSS still has to raise to pay off the mortgage on the NSS headquarters in Huntspatch. A very brief mention of such progress, without any details, was made during the banquet by the president. I would have expected much hoopla about this by now in the NSS News or elsewhere, but if there has been any, I missed it. Just looked at the president's report for the October BOG meeting to confirm details. The report is at https://caves.org/nss-business/reports/1610/PRES-1610.pdf, accessible only to NSS members.
I recall Roger Serka as an upper-Midwest caver from my old days in Chicago. He was living in El Paso when he died, apparently without any contact with Texas cavers. -- Mixon ---------------------------------------- A chicken is the egg's way of making another egg. ---------------------------------------- You may "reply" to the address this message (unless it's a TexasCavers list post) came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu AMCS: a...@mexicancaves.org or sa...@mexicancaves.org _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
