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Subj: For Mayor & Council
Date: 8/27/2009 9:42:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time
From: Robinsii
To: tmcnutt cstx.gov
CC: Robinsil
Tanya,
Would you please print this off and put on the chairs today.
Good Evening Mayor and Council:
My name is Robin Silva I live at 109 Hollydale in Bryan and I feel compelled to speak to you
about Project Hold, Anne Boykin and your history programs. I am a board member of the
Museum of the American G.I. in College Station and volunteer with many different
organizations who strive to preserve our history.
College Station has been a front runner in the great historical programs it presents and in the
preservation of not only College Station history but the history of Brazos Valley. Your
participation in projects/programs/partnerships with our local schools, museums,
organizations, historical societies, and others shows visitors and residents alike that College
Station is a vibrant Texas community proud of its history, its accomplishments and its people.
History shows our background, our growth and our paths. It is our legacy that we leave for the
next generations.
As a community College Station has been a front runner in the education & preservation of our
local history. That is because you as representatives of the community have supported these
historical projects/programs and also because of the partnership between the community and
the historian. Anne Boykin, who has built relationships with the community and with that
relationship comes trust. Families, individuals, organizations, museums and governmental
entities have stepped forward and given Anne access to their private pictures, documents,
collections, and the like to archive and preserve this history. Your History Project and
Heritage Programs have received national & state awards and recognition and also have
become a model for other communities.
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On behalf of the Museum of the American G. I. and me personally I ask that you reconsider the
budget cuts that have been proposed and restore funding to the heritage programs and retain
Anne Boykin in a full-pine position.
Thank you for your time.
Robin ' a
Opera ti ns,0ire or
Museu of the merican G.I.
P.O. Box 9599
College Stan, Texas 77842
(c)979-g39-4037
Robinsil@aol.com
Thursday, August 27, 2009 America Online: Robinsil