Hi Friends: I received the following from a good firned of mine, and I
think it is really worth while to follow up on. Bye for now.. Lynne

Subject:
NPR Funding
Date:
Wed, 12 Nov 1997 23:42:04 -0800
From:
Dessie Arnold and/or Rich Dunbar <arnolddunbar at fwi.com>
To:
Betsy Thal <bthal at concentric.net>
CC:
NaYoung Kwon <nykwon at hotmail.com>, mb34 at evansville.edu,
Marcie Trentacosti <strad4me at aol.com>,
Lynne Darnell <lynnie at eskimo.com>,
Lenelle Morse <lilnell29 at aol.com>,
Joan Wright <jlwright at aol.com>, BERGERJA at aol.com,
Gena Taylor <Genavcl at aol.com>,
Dawn Arnold <darnold at acfsysv.roosevelt.edu>,
drezits at serv2.fwi.com, dcooke at fwi.com, Borsvold at aol.com,
Dan Ross <DanJonRoss at aol.com>, Prechtl at aol.com


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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 17:23:00 -0500
Reply-To: American String Teachers Association List
<ASTA-L at CMSUVMB.CMSU.EDU>
From: Carol Lyle <clyle at MUSKINGUM.EDU>
Subject: NPR Funding
To: Multiple recipients of list ASTA-L <ASTA-L at CMSUVMB.CMSU.EDU>

Subject: NPR Funding

This is for anyone who thinks NPR/PBS is a worthwhile expenditure of
$1.12/year of their taxes. . . . A petition follows.

If you sign, please forward it on to others. If not, please don't kill
it--send it to the e-mail address listed here:
wein2688 at blue.univnorthco.edu

PBS, NPR (National Public Radio), and the arts are facing major cutbacks
in
funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending
costs and
streamline their services, some government officials believe that the
funding
currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for
something which is seen as "unworthwhile."

Currently, taxes from the general public for PBS equal $1.12 per person
per
year, and the National Endowment for the Arts equals $.64 a year in
total. A
January 1995 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll indicated that 76% of Americans
wish
to keep funding for PBS, third only to national defense and law
enforcement
as the most valuable programs for federal funding.

Each year, the Senate and House Appropriations committees each have 13
subcommittees with jurisdiction over many programs and agencies. Each
subcommittee passes its own appropriation bill. The goal each year is to
have
each bill signed by the beginning of the fiscal year, which is October
1. The
only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support
for PBS
and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard.

Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends if you
believe in
what we stand for. This list will be forwarded to the President of the
United
States, the Vice President of the United States, and Representative Newt
Gingrich, who is the instigator of the action to cut funding to these
worthwhile programs.

If you happen to be the 150th, 200th, 250th etc. signer of this
petition,
please forward a copy to wein2688 at blue.univnorthco.edu. If that address
is
inoperative, please send it to kubi7975 at blue.univnorthco.edu. This way
we can
keep track of the lists and organize them. Forward this to everyone you
know,
and help us to keep these programs alive.

Thank you.

1) Elizabeth Weinert, student, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley,
Colorado.
2) Robert M. Penn, San Francisco, CA
3) Gregory S. Williamson, San Francisco, CA
4) Daniel C. Knightly, Austin, TX
5) Andrew H. Knightly, Los Angeles, CA
6) Aaron C. Yeater, Somerville, MA
7) Tobie M. Cornejo, Washington, DC
8) John T. Mason, Dalton, MA
9) Eric W. Fish, Williamstown, MA
10) Courtney E. Estill, Hamilton College, NY
11) Vanessa Moore, Northfield, MN
12) Lynne Raschke, Haverford College, PA (originally Minnesota)
13) Deborah Bielak, Haverford, PA
14) Morgan Lloyd, Haverford, PA 19041
15) Galen Lloyd, Goucher College, MD
16) Brian Eastwood, University of Vermont, VT
17) Elif Batuman, Harvard University, MA
18) Kohar Jones, Yale University, CT
19) Claudia Brittenham, Yale University, CT
20) Alexandra Block, Yale University, CT
21) Susanna Chu, Yale University, CT
22) Michelle Chen, Harvard University, MA
23) Jessica Hammer, Harvard University, MA
24) Ann Pettigrew, Haverford College, PA
25) Kirstin Knox, Swarthmore College, PA
26) Jason Adler, Swarthmore College, PA
27) Daniel Gottlieb, Swarthmore College (but truly from Lawrence, KS)
28) Josh Feltman, Tufts University, MA
29) Louise Forrest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
30) HongSup Park, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,MA (originally
from
Portage, Wisconsin)
31) Ana Sandoval,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32) Katherine Navarrete, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
33) Mandisa Washington, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
34) Stephen Balzac, San Francisco, CA
35) Howard Yermish, Los Angeles, CA
36) Danielle Yermish, Los Angeles, CA
37) David S. Lefkowitz, University of California - Los Angeles
38) Frank S. Albinder, San Francisco, CA
39) Read S. Sherman, Harvard Divinity School
40) Stephane Lemelin, Cambridge, MA
41) Thomas Ouellette, Cambidge, MA
42) Richard Russell, Cambridge, MA
43) Nella Wennberg, Jamaica Plain, MA
44) Eric Smith, Jamaica Plain, MA
45) Alex Graham, Boston, MA
46) Dean Wei, Chicago, IL
47) Luisita Frances, Chicago, IL
48) Roy Vella, Stanford, CA
49) Alan Hellawell, Mountain View, CA
50) Timothy A. Scott, San Francisco, CA
51) Albert M. Yeh, Mountain View, CA
52) Susan Yeh,Seattle, WA
53) Jonathan Payne, Seattle, WA
54) Cena Pohl, Seattle, WA
55) David Perk, Seattle, WA
56) Robert Srygley, Seattle WA
57) Katarzyna S. Kubzdela, Chicago, IL
58) Katy Human, Stanford, CA
59) Erica Fleishman, Reno, NV
60) C. Richard Tracy, Reno, NV
61) Kenneth E. Nussear, Reno, NV
62) Christopher R. Tracy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
63) Kristin Komives, Carrboro, NC
64) Jennifer Goldman, Chapel Hill, NC
65) Darcy Leach, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
66) Van Luong, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
67) Aurora M. Sherman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
68) Paul O. Stern, Seattle, WA
69) Erika Tapman, U. of Vermont College of Medicine
70) Opher Donchin, Urbana, IL
71) Prof. Pamela Cosman, University of California, San Diego
72) Ari Levitt, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
73) Nathan Martin, Berkeley, California
74) Lynn Price, Kensington, California
75) Leslie Shown, Kensiongton, CA
76) Mike Boals, Berkeley, CA
77) Wendy Boals, Berkeley, CA
78) Effie Westervelt, Tiburon, CA
79) Mary Burns, Taos, NM
80) Karen Page, New York, NY (karenapage at aol.com)
81) Gary Holleman, Bemidji, MN (holleman at chefnet.com)
82) Tim Rosa, Newton, MA (trosa at world.std.com)
83) Doug Hersh, Sherborn MA (hersh at ultranet.com)
84) Ruel Little, Somerville, MA (rlittle at ascensiontech.com)
85) Stefan Wennik, Andover, MA (SWennik at aol.com)
86) Melissa Walia, SF, CA (color at well.com)
87) Tracy Brown, SF, CA (tracy at nrh.com)
88) John T. Miller, SF, CA (johncom at dnai.com)
89) M. Todd Davis, SF, CA (todd_davis at gensler.com)
90) Michael Demetrios, SF, CA
91) J. Marc Perrin, NY, NY (mperrin at sbi.com)
92) Alyse Daberko, NY, NY (adaberko at sbi.com)
93) Jessica Guertin, Washington Univ. St.Louis(jg3 at cec.wustl.edu)
94) Ellen Watson, San Francisco, CA
95) Bridgitt Arnold, Seattle, WA
96) Erica Yenni, Seattle, WA
97) Kerri Karvetski, Seattle, WA (70007.4401 at compuserve.com)
98) Mark Butler, Seattle, WA
99) lazlow jones, long beach, ny lazlow at undernet.com
100) Laura Bykowski, NYC, NY laurab at gbcom.com
101) Amy Stettler, NYC, NY ZiolaS at AOL.com
102) F Ben Dana, Burlington, Vermont
103) Bill Dahill-Baue, Brattleboro, VT
104) S. Ryan Quick, Yale University, New Haven, CT
105) Jerry Anne Dickel, Yale University, New Haven, CT
106) Donald Beebe, Yale University, New Haven, CT
107) Stephanie Seery, School of Theology at Claremont, CA
108) Katherine A. Johnson, Baltimore, MD
109) Cynthia J. Halstead, Burke, VA
110) Ronald Northrip, Falls Church, VA ronnlee at clark.net
111) Jane Levandoski, University of Delaware, DE
112) Denise J. Hills, University of Delaware, DE
113) David P.Sobel, College of William & Mary, VA
114) Amey T. Sadler, College of William& Mary, VA
115) Donna M. Livingston, Woodbridge, VA
116) Karen A. Morris, Burke, VA
117) Michael E. Perdue Atlanta, GA
118) David Cour, Washington D.C.
119) Katie Sergent, Washington D.C.
120) Nathan Sewell, Nashville, TN
121) Peter Eby, Nashville, TN
122) jeff taraday, seattle, WA
123) Julie Taraday, Seattle, WA
124) Stephanie Cooper, Seattle WA
125) Kailen Mooney, Seattle, WA
126) Dylan Clark, Univ. of WA, Anthropology, Seattle 98195
127) Daniel Simons, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
128) Kirsten Wild, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
129) Barbara Busetti, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
130) Leslie Macchia, Mountain View, CA lmacchia at ix.netcom.com)
131) Kris Wollenhaupt, San Jose, CA
132) Ann Bowers, Palo Alto, CA
133) Sue Tysko, Palo Alto, CA
134) Liza Schmeltz, San Jose, CA
135) Judith Schweikert, Palo Alto, CA
136) Joan Wylie, Palo Alto, CA
137) Marcia Pugsley, Palo Alto, CA
138) Daryl Davis, Palo Alto, CA
139) Amy Gerstein, San Francisco, CA
140) Christian Holden, San Francisco, CA
141) Stephen Divenere, San Francisco, CA
142) Karen Yetman, San Francisco,CA(kyetman at nelson.corp.gonelson.corp)
143) Christine D'Elia, San Francisco, CA
144) Rachel Bredemeier, Cambridge, MA
145) Karin Horlbeck, Cambridge, MA
146) Mark Bourne, Cambridge, MA (MarkB at cmbinfo.com)
147) Norm Slocum, Weymouth, MA (SLOCUM at XENSEI.COM)
148) Carol Hughes, Boulder, CO (cehughes at lucent.com)
149) Susan Hagg, San Francisco,CA(shagg at coldwellbanker.com)
150) Dante Landucci, Bethesda, MD (Dante_Landucci at NIH.com)
151) Ann Dannenberg Rosen, Newton, MA
152) Elena Conti, Cambridge, MA
153) Brent Richter, Rowley Ma
154) Libby Jones, Rowley, MA
155) Kitkoon Chan, Pleasanton CA
156) Dennis Crayon, Boston, MA
157) Claude R Labbe, Boston, MA
158) Jeffrey M. Klapes, Lynnfield, MA
159) David E. Knudsen, Somerville, MA
160) Chris Ann Matteo, New York, NY
161) Scott G. Williams, Austin, Texas
162) Linda Wiencken Williams, Austin, Texas
163) Lucinda Martin, Florence, TX
164) Karen E. LeFevre, Austin, Texas
165) David E. Soileau, Austin, Texas (cajundave at aol.com)
166) Kirk P. White, RN, MSN, Austin, TX
167) Lisa Rogers, Austin, TX (oyalisa. at aol.com)
168) Shelley Brown, Denver, CO (lbrown at aol.com)
169) Deborah Chandler, Loveland, CO (deborahwf at aol.com)
170) Linda Temple, Oklahoma City, OK (lgtemple at aol.com)
171) Tom Temple, Oklahoma City, OK (lgtemple at aol.com)
172) Gage Evans, Denver, CO (gevans at carl.org)
173) Kara M. Van Horn, Denver, CO (karav at ihs.com)
174) Carmelia Dyer, Boulder, CO (cdyer at ball.com)
175) Douglas Goldman, Boulder, CO (dgoldman at ball.com)
176) Eugenie Georgas, Boulder, CO (ggeorgas at ball.com)
177) Michael Birdsong, Boulder, CO (mbirdson at ball.com)
178) Todd Arbetter, Boulder, CO (arbetter at spam.colorado.edu)
179) Marika Holland,Boulder, CO (hollandm at orbit.colorado.edu)
180) Adriene Hughes, Brighton, MA
181) Andrew Myerson, Brighton, MA
182) Lucila De Alejandro, San Diego, CA
183) Robin Taylor, San Diego CA
184) Shelly Diaz, NYC, NY
185) Beth Davidson, Incline Village, NV
186) Jon Paul Davidson, Incline Village, NV
187) Kate Glanz, Durham, NH
188) Filson Glanz, Durham, NH
189) Dehan Glanz, San Francisco, CA
190) Justine Reese, San Francisco, CA
191) Carl Bettag, San Francisco, CA
192) Eugenia Lean, Los Angeles, CA
193) Nicole Huang, Berkeley, CA
194) George Krompacky, Yale University, CT
195) Peter Carroll, Yale University, New Haven, CT
196) James Carter, New Haven, CT
197) Eagle Glassheim, Columbia University, New York City
198) David S.Frey, Columbia University, New York City
199) Ellen B. Umland, Bay Village, OH
200) Susanna D. Kopchains, Hawthorne, NJ
201) Mark Margaretten, Denver, CO
202) Jon L. Leland, Mill Valley, CA
203) Steve Blumenthal, San Francisco, CA
204) Paula Mantel, Honolulu, HI
205) Gaile Sickel, Honolulu, HI
206) Robert Wolfson, Fairfax, CA
207) Shams Wm. Kairys, Oakland, CA
208) Donald Halley, New Lebanon, NY>
209) David Iman Adler, New Lebanon, NY
210) Robert Barris, Highland Park,
211) Janet Karpus, Kalamazoo, MI
212) Terry Macak, Kalamazoo, MI
213) Lynne Aspnes, Ann Arbor MI
214) Lorna Haywood, U of M Ann Arbor MI
215) Robert Debbaut, Salt Lake City, UT
216) Kaye Ramsey, Salt Lake City, UT
217) Timothy Jones, U of T San Antonio TX
218) Eugene Dowdy, UTSA, San Antonio, TX
219) Lawrence Stomberg, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
220) Lisa Stomberg, Colorado School of Mines, CO
221) Paula Lynch, Laurel Springs, NJ
222) Cara Kendric, Philadelphia, PA
223) Deborah Conger Hughes, University of Washington, Seattle
224) Dean Heerwagen, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
225) Mark Clayton, College Station, TX
226) Mardelle Shepley, Bryan, TX
227) Mike Blair Bryan Tx (mcblair at myriad.net)
228) David Lucey Oakland, CA
229) Ted Rallis Davis CA. (ted at ucdavis.edu)
230) Leigh Ann Giles, Davis CA (lagiles at ucdavis.edu)
231) Kamala Crompton, Sebastopol CA (kscrompton at ucdavis.edu)
232) Patrick Kelly
233) Alan J. Hiller (hiller at cooper.cpmc.org)
234) Mitchell D. Klein (MrProp at aol.com)
235) Nicholas Wulfekuhle
236) Andrew Downes
237) Kelly Bowers, Washington DC
238) Thomas Unger, Alexandria, VA
239) Dwight Gibbs, Alexandria, VA (dwightg at fool.com)
240) Selena Maranjian, Alexandria, VA (selenam at fool.com)
241) Lynnette A. Simon, Cambridge, MA (lasimon at fas.harvard.edu)
242) Susan Martin, Acton, MA(suemart at tiac.net)
243) Kenneth Lord, West Hempstead, NY242) Susan Martin, Acton, MA
(suemart at tiac.net)
243) Kenneth Lord, West Hempstead, NY (lord at calvin.cs.qc.edu)
244) Christopher Vickery, Holliswood, NY (vickery at babbage.cs.qc.edu)
245) Christopher Winters, Stamford,CT (Abudu at Juno.com)
246) Paul McIsaac, New York City (paulmci at aol.com)
247) John Douglas, Charlotte, VT (jdouglas at together.net)
248) Barre Phillips (73314.2351 at compuserve.com)
249) Margot Phillips (margotp at igc.apc.org
250) Bill Smith, jCoda Magazine, BC, Canada (codawest at mars.ark.com)
251) Matthew Sperry, musician, seattle, WA (matts at scn.org)
252) David Baulch, Western WA U, Bellingham, WA(dbaulch at cc.wwu.edu)
253) Janet Baulch, UC Davis, Davis, CA (jebaulch at ucdavis,edu)
254) Albert Davalos, San Antonio, Tx (Davalos at uthsca.edu)
255) Niels Swinkels, San Francisco
256) Margie O'Driscoll, San Francisco
257) Jason Tannen, Oakland
258) Darcie Fohrman, Monterey
259) John Chiodo, San Francisco
260) Minda Borun, Wynnewood, PA
261) Janet Johnson, Birmingham, MI
262) Larry Hutchinson, Farmington, MI
263) Crystal White, Farmington Hills, MI
264) Mary Iorio, Beverly Hills, MI
265) Katherine McCoy
266) Mary Lou Kroh
267) Todd Germann, Chicago, IL
268) rodney louie, chicago, il
269) Gene Anderson, Los Angeles, CA
270) Guido Frenzel, Los Angeles, CA
271) Mary Siceloff, Los Angeles, CA
272) Michael Patton, Napa, California
273) Cheryl Rosenthal, San Francisco, CA
274) Mia Malm, New York, NY
275) Carl Hermanns, San Diego, CA276) Steve Grumette, Oak View, CA
277) Peter Troxell, Felton, CA
278) Stephen Goodman, Santa Cruz, CA
279) Alicia Ariatti, San Jose, CA
280) Maggi Oberson, Santa Clara, CA
281) Elisabeth Shafer, Irvine, CA
282) Stephen G Young, Seattle, WA (sycs at earthlink.net)
283) Sean D. Carberry, Needham, MA
284) Robert P. Kempf, Mashpee, MA
285) Jean Spivey, Austin, TX
286) Jan Seides-Murphy, Austin,TX
287) Tim Henderson, Austin, Tx (papabear at bga.com)
288) Connie Damron, Austin, Tx (damron at fmp.com)
289) Marti Stone Gibson, Alamo, TX (martistonegibson at Juno.com)
290) Sherri Whitmarsh PAC Graphics Studio 512.471.0607 (phone);
512.471.4783
(fax)
291) Elisabeth Grant-Gibson Monroe, LA (grant-gibson at juno.com)
292) Patricia Grant Monroe, LA
293) David Lowe
294) Adam Ryland, Monroe, LA
295) Wendy W. Ryland, Monroe, LA
296) Melanie A. Payton, Monroe, LA
297) k brandon bell Memphis, TN (framnyss at usa.net)
298) Robert Brinkerhoff, Rhode Island School of
Design(rbrinker at risd.edu)
299) elizabeth brinkerhoff, mit - cambridge, ma (ebrinker at mit.edu)
300) madison monroe, Little Rock, AR (madison at aristotle.net)
301) Carolyn Kruhm, Flat Rock, NC
302) Quentin Richmond, Memphis, TN
303) Ann E. Taylor, Memphis, TN
304) Robert J. Godfrey, Port Orange, FL (BigBob3781 at aol.com)
305) Eric Leventhal, Flushing, Queens, New York (ell100362 at aol.com)
306) Charles Vann, Houston, TX (cj7v at juno.com)
307) Marc Malinger, Austin, TX (msparkle at juno.com)
308) Jill Turetsky, Austin, TX (jill333 at juno.com)
309) Mark Lindow, San Antonio, Tx (mlindow at sprynet.com)
310) Shannon Stephens, San Antonio, TX (shannon2 at flash.net)
311) David Stephens, San Antonio, TX (shannon2 at flash.net)
312) Kathleen M. Pratt, San Francisco, CA (k.pratt at sloanpratt.com)
313) Andrew Goodwin, South Salem, NY (DrFozzie at aol.com)
314) Susanna Cole, new york, ny
315) Cecilia Cabello, New York, NY316) Megan O'Toole, New York, NY
317) Amy Rocen, New York, NY
318) Julie Shuler, Brooklyn, NY
319) Andy Robbins, Brooklyn, NY
320) Neil Cronin, San Diego, CA
321) Jim Wadsworth, San Diego, CA
322) Chris Woods, CDC, Atlanta, GA.
323) Michael Bell, CDC, Atlanta, Ga
324) Sara Howard, San Francisco, CA
325) Sharon Ardiana, San Francisco, CA
326) Jay Elliott, San Francisco, CA
327) Rebecca Weill, San Francisco, CA
328) Andrew Shinnick, San Francisco, CA
329) Ruth Hillier, San Francisco, CA
330) Anne Castleton, Portland, OR
331) Marian Yeates, Salt Lake City, UT
332) Beth Olson, Ann Arbor, MI (formerly of Minnesota, Indiana,
Illinois, West
Vi
rginia, Ohio)
333) Carol Lyle, New Concord, OH
334) LeRoy Weber
335) Dessie Arnold

Cut and paste this entire page into your own new e-mail, sign the
petition,
then send it on to others.

Thank you!

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