Michigan Humanities Council has received notice of the following humanities and Touring Programs activities scheduled at educational and cultural institutions in Michigan for the dates shown. Readers are encouraged to contact sponsors to confirm dates, times and locations. (** denotes Michigan Humanities Council-funded projects; ++ denotes Touring Programs funded in part by Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and Michigan Humanities Council)

Fall 2000

'Arts & Humanities' Campaign: Winning Kudos

"Arts & Humanities ... adding balance to our lives!" -- the joint campaign of Michigan Humanities Council and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs -- can claim the distinction of being an "award-winning" promotional campaign during Arts & Humanities Month.

The latest recognition comes from the Michigan Museums Association which recognized the campaign's six creative, thought-provoking posters with a Gold Medal and its 30-second radio spot with a Silver Medal at the MMA annual conference Oct. 10-13 on Mackinac Island.

The campaign also was recognized this spring by the Lansing Advertising Club, a local chapter of the American Advertising Federation, during its annual Addy competition.  The campaign received a Certificate of Merit in the "Advertising for the Arts" category, while the campaign t-shirt won a Citation of Excellence in the "Direct Marketing - Specialty Advertising Apparel" category.

The colorful campaign slogan and promotional materials were developed by Carol Zimmer and Carl Fish of ZimmerFish Creative, East Lansing.  The campaign materials are available for Michigan cultural organizations to use in their own local promotion of the arts and humanities.  Find these award-winning campaign items on our web site: http://mihumanities.h-net.msu.edu/campaign.html.

Moving Forward: Strategic Plan 2000
By Rick Knupfer, Executive Director

Several years of environmental conditions and trends analysis, focus groups convened around Michigan, planning meetings and retreats, followed by a year and a half of sustained planning have culminated in Michigan Humanities Council’s adoption of Strategic Plan 2000, designed to carry the Council through the next five years.  The process overall coincided with our recently completed Self Assessment, in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Humanities five-year site evaluation. 

Primary goals of the Plan are to devise ways to more effectively advance the current Council mission and program mission in a changing environment and to organize the Council’s resources and revenue-generating strategies to most effectively meet those needs. 

Early parts of the planning process were devoted to assessing the climate and needs in the state and latter stages devoted to prioritizing key ways to respond to those needs and changes.  The Council examined its “core competencies”; conducted program cost and benefit analyses; analyzed Michigan environmental trends, program mission statements and target audiences; and carried out program growth outlines, outline of resources needed, marketing needs, and cost analysis for program growth, with the overall goal being growth and sustainability for those programs where the mission and demand were determined most vital and viable.  Several programs and services were abandoned.  As part of the process, the Council also assessed the programming, network and grants needs of its cultural organization partners. 

The Council is now developing growth objectives, costing out future programming, resource needs and the kinds of board structure and leadership required to support the Plan.

The main findings of the planning process were:

* The Council’s current mission is strong, viable and relevant to needs in the state;

* The Council’s current program mission, “Creating Vision for the New Century: The Humanities and the Strengthening of Michigan's Communities,” and its emphasis on collaborative projects in communities are especially relevant and should guide all Council activities into the foreseeable future;

* Current programs have realized only a fraction of their potential impact because of limited resources, and new revenues must be secured to develop and expand them;

* In addition to securing new revenues, the Council must increase its capacity to provide humanities resources to community organizations by developing:

• strategic collaborations with other statewide service providers;
• a highly active and interactive virtual network connecting cultural organizations with resources across cultural disciplines and providing new marketing and communicating benefits;
• humanities resources and access to others’ humanities resources for delivery via such a network and via grants; and
• any new strategies in its grants program that stimulate and enhance the delivery of these resources to and among communities.

The Council recognizes that community organizations are the link between itself and the public.  In most instances, the public is directly served by these organizations rather than by the Council; therefore, Michigan Humanities Council best reaches the public by effectively serving community organizations. 

As a relatively small cultural service provider, the Council functions best as a program catalyst by connecting communities and cultural services across disciplines and by distributing humanities resources from those who have them to those who do not; it can most effectively do this by establishing incentives (grants and communications/content/delivery network).  Likewise, the Council emphasizes similar “catalytic” activity involving community collaboration among cultural, educational and community-based organizations and institutions at the local level.

To carry out the Plan, the Council recognizes that it will need:

• * new revenues -- public, private and, as appropriate to its mission, earned income -- to extend its current program to meet demand;
• * a delivery mechanism to connect humanities resources (scholars, programs, exhibits, program techniques, etc.) with communities, and
• * grants that most effectively create these resources and connect and deliver them to meet community needs (i.e., that develop and distribute humanities resources of Michigan’s colleges and universities and resource media efficiently for the use of community organizations with resulting public benefit).

Primary strategies for accomplishing these goals include:

• creation of a statewide on-line interactive cultural network connecting Michigan cultural organizations across all disciplines and venues with statewide cultural service providers and resources, including cultural calendars and links;
• coordinated services with and links to statewide partners;
• best program practices, grants and human cultural resources; and
• communications and cultural development strategies and mentoring.

The Council’s grant program will be modified within its current mission to allow for:

• Rapid distribution of resources (scholars, programs, and services) to community organizations, indexed and themed to meet local needs;
• Grants for researching, creating and developing substantial public humanities programs with potential to reach more people and newer audiences, utilizing non-traditional or multiple sites or creating learning networks;
• Support for community cultural planning, alliances, collaborations;
• Grants to extend the reach of existing or past successful programming to new audiences, multiple sites or learning networks.

We plan to unwrap the new grants program during the coming year for funded programs commencing in 2001.  Stay tuned!

                                    -- Rick Knupfer, Executive Director

School and other public groups tour the John Pratt House near Midland where, with the assistance of a Council grant, the Creative Spirit Center provides interpretation and creative activities to help the public understand the role of art in enriching the life of the mentally ill yet insightful artist who made the home's exterior artwork his passion.

A View Inside Our Self Assessment

Editor's Note: In late August, representatives of the National Endowment for the Humanities and two outside evaluators visited the Council's office in Lansing to continue an ongoing assessment of Michigan Humanities Council programs and services to the people and cultural and educational community of Michigan.  NEH Federal/State Partnership Office representatives Michael Lanza and Dwan Reece King joined Robert Ferguson, a past Council member and professor emeritus of Ferris State University, and Gary Holthaus, president of the Institute for the Humanities at Salado, TX, and past board member of the Federation of State Humanities Councils, as the site visit team. In addition to meeting with Council members and staff to review grant-making activities, ongoing programs and administrative matters, the team spent one day exploring the impacts of Council programs in Michigan communities in discussions with nine current or past project directors or program collaborators.  Here is some of what they heard from participants:

Landscapes of Community Identity - Joe VanderMeulen, Executive Director, Land Information Access Association, Traverse City:  This Council-funded project, "Landscapes of Community Identity -- Exploring the Relationships Between Heritage, Arts & the Environment," drew an audience of regional cultural and environmental leaders from northwest Michigan to Traverse City June 8-9 for an evening event to celebrate the arts and humanities in music, art, poetry, storytelling and radio theater, followed by a day-long symposium on the nature of sustainable communities, urban planning and a "sense of place."  The project connected people of the region, resulted in a number of spin-off opportunities for partnering activities among the organizations represented and helped LIAA "gain a presence and visibility in the community" as a nonprofit organization serving other nonprofits, VanderMeulen said.  The community will host a second symposium in August, 2001, as a result of what VanderMeulen has called a "stunning success and a truly inclusive and holistic approach to community identity." 

Piecing It Together: The John Pratt House - Linda Smith, project director, and Jan List, curator, Creative Spirit Center, Midland:  A $3,000 planning grant to the center helped the group develop materials and school and community tour programs to interpret and draw attention to a unique work of art that was not only a local artist's home but became his life's focus after mental illness overcame him.  From that grant, said Smith, the center was able to leverage $85,000 in support and services that produced a videotape about the man and the art that encompasses the exterior of his house. An accompanying brochure also stresses "the value of people going there to learn" a powerful message about the role art can play in everyday life, helping its creators and viewers to transcend even the most difficult and troubling circumstances.

Sojourner Truth Art & Education Project - Michael Evans, director, Sojourner Truth Institute, Battle Creek:  The results of this Council-funded project included lesson plans for schools and a computer "virtual tour" about various aspects of the former slave and abolitionist's life, work and connections to the community of Battle Creek.  The institute has grown through its work to attract national interests and inquiries and become a leading cultural organization in the community, whose programs have become models for development of other school curriculum materials and community activities.  "The Council's name lends a certain amount of prestige" to help leverage others' contributions and encourage community collaborations," Evans said. Work with the Council was "the best fit we could find" to accomplish the project, he added.

'Barn Again!' Exhibit Host Site - Teresa Goforth, director, Courthouse Square, Charlotte: This small community historical organization in Eaton County hosted the Council-sponsored Smithsonian traveling exhibit in late 1999 into January, 2000, at its 1885 courthouse building.  Goforth said that prior to the exhibit their visitations averaged 10-20 per month, but the exhibit and related activities exposed more than 2,000 people to the site and has increased public interest in their ongoing programs.  The opportunity to have "Barn Again!" at the site gave the organization confidence in what they could do, she said. "It has given us so much credibility as a valid cultural organization" and has helped them leverage support from the city and the county.

Detroit Latino Humanities Projects - Mike Smith, archivist, Walter P. Reuther Archives, Wayne State University, Detroit:  Two phases of an ongoing project focused on subjects related to Detroit's and Michigan's Latino community have benefitted from Council funding.  The first was an exhibit, "La Causa," that documents the formation and history of the United Farm Workers Union, Cesar Chavez and its leadership and members.  The exhibit "spurred us to redesign our exhibit system" to create traveling exhibitions, said Smith, and "La Causa" has been scheduled at sites in other states, including a stop at the George Meany Center in Maryland.  The latest phase of the project -- granted "seed money" by the Council which resulted in other contributions to the project -- is an award-winning one-hour video, "Forjando una Comunidad: A History of Mexicans in Detroit," which aired on Public Radio television stations in Michigan in September.  Council support for the video, which examined Depression-era policies that repatriated some 12,000 Mexican immigrants in Michigan to their homeland and the efforts that brought them back to the state, helped to leverage resources and in-kind services that led to its successful completion, Smith said.

Other Represented Projects/Programs:

Fairtime! American's Fairs Educating Communities and It's Fair Time! ReDISCOVER Our Agricultural Roots - Marilyn Thelen, County Fair Department, Michigan Department of Agriculture:  Success of the collaboration with the MSU Museum on these Council-funded exhibits is opening the eyes of the fair industry to its heritage and its role in American society.  The Fairtime! exhibits have toured to fairs and other sites throughout the state as well as in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and California and the newest exhibit is about to open at the MSU Museum.

Sigmund Freud: His Era and Influence - Susan Bandes, director, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing:  Council funding and encouragement for collaboration with community organizations brought new audiences to the museum for this photography exhibit and resulted in related lecture and film activities in the community to explore aspects of the work and life of the noted physician and founder of psychoanalysis.

Also relating their experiences with Council programs were Arts & Humanities Touring Directory storyteller Jenifer Ivinskas Strauss of Hastings, who has also been a presenter on Michigan's Great Outdoors Culture Tour for two summers, and Douglas Finley, director of the office of education and outreach of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources whose State Parks have hosted 125 Culture Tour programs since 1997.  Strauss noted improvements in the Touring Directory application process for presenters in recent years as well as greater promotion for both the Arts & Humanities Touring Program and the Culture Tour.  Finley said Culture Tour programs are among the highest-rated activities by campers at participating State Parks.

Directory of Scholars Gets Skills to the Field!

The Council's on-line Directory of Scholars serves organizations across Michigan as a resource for anyone developing public humanities programs.  Scholars from across Michigan are encouraged to sign up to be included in the directory, for which the Council seeks the broadest possible inclusion of academic and other qualified professional expertise; it is particularly interested in greater representation of ethnic and women scholars.

Humanities scholars receive honoraria for consulting, planning or evaluation services provided to Council-funded humanities projects.  Discussion leaders, facilitators, lecturers, panelists, presenters and researchers are among roles scholars and professionals play in humanities program and project development.  Examples of humanities program formats are civic discussions, community outreach or curriculum development projects, exhibit and video projects, public presentations and projects for life-long learning. 

Recent Council projects which have utilized humanities scholars and professionals:

* "What We Wear: Work, Play, Celebration, Identity - Special Programming at the National Folk Festival" -- The National Folk Festival in East Lansing Aug. 11-13, 2000, included interactive activities, performances and interpretive sessions on the artistry and cultural significance of clothing and body adornment of more than 18 occupational, recreational, ethnic, religious and regional population groups in Michigan. Festival-goers talked with tradition-bearers displaying Native American pow-wow regalia, Chinese New Year costumes, African-American hairstyles, Arab Muslim dress, hunting and fishing garb, autoworkers' personalized work clothes to protest the corporate power structure and gospel choir robes.

* "Our Village: Detroit's West Side, 1920-1950" -- African-American senior community members collected photographs, artifacts and oral histories to create a traveling exhibition and exhibit booklet and develop related programs commemorating the history of their westside Detroit neighborhood.  Churches, clubs, families, businesses and schools participated. 

* "The Poetry and Past of Ted Roethke, Saginaw" -- The life and work of Saginaw poet Theodore Roethke were featured in a series of public programs, including student poetry workshops, public lectures, displays and tours of the Roethke home and other significant sites in Saginaw.

Visit http://mihumanities.h-net.msu.edu/projects to review other examples of humanities scholars' work with projects around Michigan. 

To be listed in the Council's Directory of Scholars, fill out and submit an application Form on-line at http://mihumanities.h-net.msu.edu/scholars/scholarssubmit.htm. For further information, contact: Michael S. Pankow, Resource Center coordinator, at 517/372-7770 or by e-mail at resources@voyager.net.

Crowd Tops 425 for New A&H Directory 'Showcase'

Touring Arts & Humanities Showcase 2000 in September at the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts attracted a record-breaking crowd of more than 425 cultural representatives and performing artists and humanities interpreters.

Sponsored by Michigan Humanities Council and Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs (MCACA), the daylong event gave community cultural program planners from nonprofit organizations, schools, museums, libraries and other groups a sampling of the talents of some of Michigan's finest performing artists and humanities interpreters listed in the new 2000-2003 Arts & Humanities Touring Directory. Nearly 250 programs are offered in the new directory.

Bands and musicians, historical role players, storytellers, theatrical and choral groups, novelty acts, dancers and singers were among those featured in the Showcase 2000 debut of the new 85-page directory.  About 60 exhibitors met with event planners to discuss their programs while 30 talented individuals or groups were introduced by Master of Ceremonies Kenneth Beachler of East Lansing to step into the spotlight and present a sample of their work. 

Attendees found the day's performances and networking with exhibitors a rewarding opportunity to meet and talk with others active and committed to the arts, humanities and culture. "It was a great day!" noted one artist.

Information was also distributed about the popular Arts & Humanities Touring Grants for nonprofit organizations to help cover the costs of engaging performers and interpreters listed in the 2000-2003 directory.  Showcase 2000 activities assisted attendees in planning programs to meet the Sept. 25 deadline for grant applications, the first of two deadlines under a new application schedule for 2000-2003.  A second application period will be open from Feb. 15 to March 25, 2001, for those seeking support for programs scheduled between April 1 and Sept. 30. Last year, more than $120,000 in Arts & Humanities Touring Grants was awarded in support of arts and cultural programs in Michigan communities.

Copies of the directory, which lists arts and humanities programs and visual arts programs for community and school audiences throughout the state, are available by calling Michigan Humanities Council at 800/837-4532; the directory is also on the Council's web site (http://mihumanities.h-net.msu.edu).  Program and exhibit listings in the directory describe content, availability, fees and the contracting process to engage artists and presenters for public venues.

The Council has administered the touring program in partnership with MCACA since January, 1998.

Showcase 2000 attendees interact with exhibitor-performers from the new Arts & Humanities Touring Directory Sept. 16 at the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts.

Resource Center Offers Memberships

As part of the Council's efforts to upgrade Resource Center services to its users statewide, it initiates an annual Resource Center membership plan this month that promises more educational value for users' dollars. 

Why a membership plan for resource users?  The Council recognizes that time and money are often in short supply.  So, for annual fees of just $25 for individuals and $100 for organizations (i.e., an individual school, college or university department, religious or service organization, community or senior citizen center, museum, public library, hospital, government office, etc.), Resource Center members will gain unlimited access to the Media & Exhibit Library's collection of hundreds of circulating resources.  In addition, Resource Center members receive a $25 discount on all ROADS Culture Kit rentals. 

Resource Center memberships are available on an annual basis, running from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. Pro-rated six-month memberships are available each March.

Teachers (K-12), curriculum specialists, home school parents, librarians/media specialists, program directors, researchers, Extension personnel or college/university faculty are among those most likely to benefit from Resource Center membership privileges.  To become a Resource Center member, call the Council's Lansing office today and start saving!

Council Initiates Quick Grants

Michigan Humanities Council has initiated a new opportunity for Michigan-based nonprofit organizations seeking support for public humanities programs -- Quick Grants.

The new Quick Grants can provide up to $500 for public humanities programs or services that fall outside the design and deadline schedules of existing Collaborative Projects in Communities Grant, Mini Grant and Arts & Humanities Touring Grant programs.  They're intended to cover programs and services such as:

• Planning - honoraria and/or travel expenses for humanities scholars serving as consultants for public humanities programs,
• Speakers - honoraria and/or travel expenses for humanities scholars as guest speakers for film/video/exhibit events, conferences, lectures, etc.,
• Reading/Discussion Programs - honoraria and/or travel expenses for humanities scholars leading book discussion groups at libraries or community centers ($100 per book discussion leader, maximum $500 grant award), and
• Other Event Expenses - printing, promotion, video/audio taping, exhibit rental, etc., related to a specific humanities program.

Quick Grants are available for programs taking place between Nov. 1 and Oct. 31, 2001. Organizations already supported through Arts & Humanities Touring Grants, Collaborative Projects in Communities or Mini Grant programs are not eligible for Quick Grant support for those projects. Quick Grants cannot be used to cover membership fees for the Council’s Resource Center.

Applications are available on the Council's web site (http://mihumanities.h-net.msu.edu).  Contact LuAnn Kern at the Council's Lansing office for further information.

Fall Deadline for Library Program Applicants 

Prime Time Family Reading Time -- an eight-week reading, discussion andstorytelling program held in public libraries -- will be offered in spring, summer and fall of 2001 to 14 libraries nationwide with grant support from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities under a partnership with the American Library Association. Prime Time is administered by the Louisiana Endowment for theHumanities.

Deadline for libraries to apply is Nov. 3 (postmark); successful applicants will be notified in mid-December.  Participating library staff training will be Jan. 26-28, 2001, in New Orleans.

Under the program, a university scholar serving as a discussion leader joins a storyteller to conduct weekly book discussion/storytelling sessions based on award-winning children's books. Families enroll together in Prime Time Family Reading Time programs, reinforcing the role of the family as a socio-economic unit and bonding parents and children around the act of reading and learning together to improve skills and achievements.  The program encourages parents and children to read and discuss humanities topics (history, literature, ethical issues such as fairness, greed, honor, deceit) to foster high academic expectations and achievement in low-literacy, low-income families. 

Prime Time encourages enrolled parents to enter or continue their own education -- GED or other training -- and enter the workforce.  It also teachesparents and children how to select books and encourages them to be library users.

Grants to selected libraries help cover staff travel and lodging to attend trainingworkshop; 22 sets of reusable books and book bags; stipends for scholars,storytellers and readers; publicity materials (posters, flyers, etc.); site support manuals and shipping costs.

Find on-line applications at www.leh.org and www.ala.org/publicprograms. For further information or assistance in preparing Prime Time applications, contact LuAnn Kern (lkernmihum@voyager.net) at the Council office in Lansing.

Names in the News 

Northern Michigan University President and Council Member Judi Bailey was interviewed on National Public Radio Aug. 24 about NMU's unique educational initiative that supplied its 4,000-plus students with laptop computers as they returned to campus this fall.

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President Clinton honored former council member Mildred (Millie) Jeffrey of Detroit among 15 Americans who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Aug. 9, recognizing her work in helping "working men and women break down the barriers to social and economic justice and thrive as members of America's labor force." Congratulations, Millie!

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Consumers Energy of Jackson, which has supported Michigan's Great Outdoors Culture Tour for the past two years, is among individuals and organizations being honored Oct. 25 with Governors' Awards for Arts and Culture from ArtServe Michigan. Consumers will be recognized with the Business Honor Roll Award.  Others receiving awards are:  playwright Arthur Miller, Lansing actor/director John Peakes, Ann Arbor artist Marco Garcia, Detroit poet/educator Dr. Terry Blackhawk, civic leader Arthur Johnson of Detroit, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village of Dearborn, the Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, the Grand Rapids Children's Museum, Detroit Symphony Orchestra chairman Peter Cummings and artist/businesswoman Gwen Frostic of Benzonia.  Ceremonies take place at Henry Ford Museum.

Summer Culture Tour Reaches 8,500

Members of the Mme. Cadillac Dancers brought the colorful stories of music of "Michigan's French Colonial History" to Culture Tour sites in northwest Michigan in August. Here, they perform for an audience at Lake Michigan National Forest Campground near Manistee.

"Can 'culture' really be this much fun?!" asked one of this summer's hosts for 94 public programs on Michigan's Great Outdoors Culture Tour.  "Thanks for another great year."

In its third full summer, the six-week Culture Tour recorded a 42 percent increase in attendance figures over last year's audiences for evening programs at 19 Michigan State Parks, four National Forests, four National Parks and eight other community sites in northern Lower Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.  Programs by 20 musicians, storytellers, historical roleplayers, dancers, artists and interpreters helped some 8,500 vacationers and residents relate to the stories, personalities, events and heritage of Michigan's northwoods and Great Lakes culture between July 1 and Aug. 14.

While vacationing in the north at Brimley State Park, Kathy Herman of Garden City and her children, ages 5 to 12, attended a "Native American Stories and Art" program by Indian artist-storyteller Lois Beardslee of Maple City.  "My kids got a lot out of it," she said. "They all loved it."

Other participating presenters were: Mme. Cadillac Dancers of Detroit; historical roleplayers Michael Deren of Ann Arbor and Project Lakewell of DeWitt; storytellers Patty Clark of Charlevoix, Jenifer Ivinskas Strauss of Hastings, Barbara Schutzgruber of Ann Arbor, Larry Massie of Allegan, and poet-bard Terry Wooten of Kewadin; musicians Kitty Donohoe and Wanda Degen of East Lansing, Neil Woodward of Howell, Tom Hodgson of Chelsea, Lee Murdock of Chicago, John Berquist of Minnesota, Song of the Lakes of Traverse City, Mark and Molly Mitchell of Marquette and the Dodworth Saxhorn Band of southeast Michigan; Native American interpreters Judy and Jim St. Arnold of Ironwood, and natural history interpreters Sarah and Wil Reding.

Michigan's Great Outdoors Culture Tour is sponsored by the Council in cooperation with the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, with additional support from Consumers Energy of Jackson, Mead Paper Division of Escanaba, state and national natural resources agencies and their affiliate interpretive associations and other community hosts.

Don't Forget! Make A Year-End Gift

Look back on the past six months and you'll see that most of the ideas, concepts and dreams we projected for 2000 as part of the Annual Report in our spring newsletter have already been achieved.  The approaching fiscal and calendar years already appear full of promise for even more fruitful collaborations, continuing service to the field, new grant opportunities, dynamic programs and resources and exceptional partners to help make it all possible.

If you've been inspired by or active in our programs throughout the year, why not become part of furthering the work of your state humanities council through a gift to the Friends of the Humanities in Michigan.  Your support is vitally needed to nourish our existing and future programs and help them grow. We welcome your financial participation in keeping our programs strong, our outreach broad and our mission evolving to meet the needs of our state. 

If you haven't given before, please consider doing so.  If you've given in the past but not recently, please know that we have missed your participation as a Friend of the Humanities in Michigan.  If your donation envelope got lost in the year-end shuffle, use the form below to enclose with your check.  If you've got your checkbook out to renew your 1999 gift, please consider increasing it.                                        

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