Re: Antonio's grant

[Patti <pkv1@erols.com>]

Frank & Allan:

   I too am in agreement with this form of aid, or "sawbuck research" and I 
am willing to contribute same to receive that PDF.

   Following up on your recitation of Dodson's fundraising efforts, when he 
offered the _Avaceratops_ specimen to ANSP, they told him they would exhibit 
it if he would come up with that $5000.  He requested and received a grant 
from the Delaware Valley Paleontological Society (DVPS) for $700, as well as 
from individual members and other private donors, and the cookie sales ( 
$1000 worth, baked by family and friends), funded what was one of the first 
dinosaurs exhibited in the ANS (besides the NJ Hadrosaurus) and was the 
impetus to the development of their Dinosaur Hall.
   - Patti

Patricia Kane-Vanni
Bala Cynwyd, PA  19004
pkv1@erols.com or paleopatti@hotmail.com
http://groups.msn.com/DinosaurandFossilDigs

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people 
always do that, but really great ones make you feel that you too, can become 
great." - Mark Twain
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allan Edels" <edels@msn.com>
To: <htomsirveaux@hotmail.com>; <frank@blissnet.com>; <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: Antonio's grant


> Since Dr. Dalla Vecchia is seeking $863 US, if 100 of us each contributed 
> the proverbial sawbuck ($10.00 US [I can tell you some of the history of 
> this slang]), he'd have $1000.00 US, more than enough to take care of 
> everything.
>
> Please remember that Fabio did not ask for money, he merely asked where he 
> might apply for some.
>
> I'd like to be able to contribute more money, even directly to the people 
> doing the work.  My personal circumstances prohibit me from donating TOO 
> much, but $10.00 every now and then is certainly do-able. If I had real 
> money, I'd probably set up a fund or something to handle various grants 
> that fall though the cracks.  (There are some DML or former DML members 
> who have done something similar). And, yes, I would like a PDF.
>
> Around 20 years ago, Dr. Peter Dodson did something similar:  His wife 
> (and I don't who else) baked dinosaur cookies and sold them at an 
> unrelated celebration that was being held outside of the Acadamy of 
> Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP).  This was to raise money to 
> purchase a specimen that he initially believed was a new species of 
> _Brachyceratops_.  He was going to make the species name "populi" - i.e. 
> for the people.  [He was trying to raise $5000.00 US].  This specimen is 
> now known as _Avaceratops lammersii_ (or is that "lammersorrum"? :-)).
>
> My 2 cents (or is that $10?),
>
> Allan Edels
>
>
>
> > From: Tommy Bradley <htomsirveaux@hotmail.com>
> > Reply-To: htomsirveaux@hotmail.com
> > To: frank@blissnet.com, dinosaur@usc.edu
> > Subject: Re: Antonio's grant
> > Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:15:29 -0400
> >
> > Frank Bliss said:
> > > Does anyone have a problem with this approach in this forum other than 
> > > the fact that we can't do >this all the time?
> >
> > Not at all.  Just tell me where to send the money.
> >
> > > Passing the hat around for dinosaur research???
> >
> > It beats spending all my petty cash on myself.
> >
> > Tommy Bradley
> >
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