History Challenge Update
Earlier this year, the Tawani Foundation of Chicago pledged to match all gifts-up to $40,000-that the Naval Institute Foundation raises for the Oral History Program between February and October 2009. With three months to go, we are just $6,000 shy of meeting this challenge.
Your tax-deductible gift now will help put us over the top-and significantly assist this worthy educational program. Oral History donations can be made online at www. usni.org (click on "Support USNI") or mailed to The Naval Institute Foundation; 291 Wood Road; Annapolis, MD 21402. For information on underwriting a specific history or to make a contribution by phone, contact Sue Sweeney at (410) 295-1054, or at [email protected].
The Hayward volume and all Naval Institute oral histories are available for sale in hardbound, softcover, and CD versions. For information on purchasing histories, contact the Member Services department at (800) 233-8764 or (410) 268-6110, or at [email protected].
Hayward Oral History Is Available
Former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas B. Hayward gave generously of his time to participate in the Naval Institute's Oral History Program. This in-depth discussion of his life and career is a true asset to the Institute's award-winning collection.
More recently, a number of supporters stepped forward to help underwrite the costs of the labor-intensive process that took the project from raw audio-taped interviews to an annotated, indexed, and bound oral history.
The U.S. Naval Institute thanks Admiral Hayward and the following individuals and organizations for their generous support:
Ernest M. Beauchamp
Randy Best
RADM Herbert M. Bridge
Roy K. Campbell
LCDR Benjamin J. Conroy Jr.
Kenneth I. Danneberg
Mark E. Dowhy and
Anna S. Anderson
John Edwin Gassner
LT Herschel L. Gott
ADM Ronald J. Hays
CDR John W. Jacobs
ADM David E. Jeremiah
Robert J. Kaps
CAPT William A.
Mackey Sr.
CAPT Perry W. Nelson
Lisle A. Rose
CAPT William M. Russell
Bank of Hawaii
Anonymous Donor
Save! Use! Support!
In the certain belief that people donate when it is convenient for them and on their own schedule, we are covering our bases by providing a form you can use to support the Naval Institute when the spirit moves you.
Located between pages 88 and 89 in this issue is a postage-paid envelope that doubles as a gift form. Please pull it out and hang onto it. (Of course, if now is a good time to use it, so much the better-and thank you!)
Contributed funds underwrite all of the Institute's educational projects-Proceedings, Naval History, Naval Institute Press books, oral histories, photo preservation, essay contests, and professional conferences. Because the Institute and its Foundation are both classified by the IRS as 501(c)(3) nonprofits, all gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Thanks to Proceedings readers, we enjoyed modest success when we experimented with a bind-in envelope last summer. It is a relatively inexpensive way to reach Members and, in time, will hopefully reduce the need for mailed appeal letters. When it works, we all win!