<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>George,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for spreading the word. Thanks to Sheila and Larry McHale for their generosity. So many good projects have benefitted from 1804 grants. </div><div><br></div><div>Rich and Karen Vedder have donated and Dan Denhart was awarded a grant to automate scenery in the theater dept. which will indirectly benefit OVST and our Patrons and audience members. </div><div><br>Karen Vedder,</div><div>Member of OVST Board<br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Sent from my iPhone</span></div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br>On Sep 20, 2013, at 10:00 AM, "Weckman, George" <<a href="mailto:weckman@ohio.edu">weckman@ohio.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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</span><font color="#44546A"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"> Larry and Sheila McHale have offered to match all the money given to the 1804 Fund endowment during the current academic year up to $25,000. Sheila is an alumna of the University (’68) and her husband Larry is currently the chair of the Advancement Committee on the OU Foundation Board of Trustees.<br>
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</span><font color="#44546A"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"> This Fund has supported research projects across the university since 1980. More than 600 projects have been funded. The extent to which the university is enhanced by this fund cannot be overestimated.<br>
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</span><font color="#44546A"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"> The matching funds challenge provides an opportunity to double your gift to this worthwhile feature of our university. Give what you can, but only gifts up to $2500 will be matched.<br>
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</span><font color="#44546A"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"> Please make checks to “The Ohio University Foundation” and designate the “1804 Fund –McHale Matching Challenge” on the memo line. Send it to Box 869, Athens.<br>
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<font color="#44546A"><font size="4"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt"> 1804 Fund Challenge<br>
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</span><font color="#44546A"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"> Larry and Sheila McHale have offered to match all the money given to the 1804 Fund endowment during the current academic year up to $25,000. Sheila is an alumna of the University (’68) and her husband Larry is currently the chair of the Advancement Committee on the OU Foundation Board of Trustees.<br>
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</span><font color="#44546A"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"> This Fund has supported research projects across the university since 1980. More than 600 projects have been funded. The extent to which the university is enhanced by this fund cannot be overestimated.<br>
</span></font></font><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><font color="#44546A"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"> The matching funds challenge provides an opportunity to double your gift to this worthwhile feature of our university. Give what you can, but only gifts up to $2500 will be matched.<br>
</span></font></font><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><font color="#44546A"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"> Please make checks to “The Ohio University Foundation” and designate the “1804 Fund –McHale Matching Challenge” on the memo line. Send it to Box 869, Athens.<br>
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