Growing the “CBI Friends”
We are delighted to announce that, thanks to so many of you, we are making real progress in growing our roster of annual supporters. The CBI Friends program is expanding at all levels, with a number of new “Friends” joining for the first time, healthy renewals of “Associates,” “Colleagues,” and “Sponsors,” as well as expansion at the upper levels of “Patrons” and “Benefactors.” To one and all, we are very honored to have your financial support. Overall, we experienced a gratifying 10 percent increase in the number of friends—and this on top of last year’s astonishing 50 percent jump in contributors—and we are also recording a handsome increase in the total amount raised.
It’s never too late to join the CBI Friends. For a $100 contribution, we can mail you the forthcoming issues of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, the field’s pre-eminent journal. Its editor-in-chief is none other than CBI’s very own Jeffrey Yost. Jeff has been working long hours to bring readers the best in scholarship, literally from around the world, as well as informative news, biographies, anecdotes, and general happenings in the field. We mail the issues, as soon as we receive them from IEEE, directly to each of our CBI Friends. If you’re feeling forgetful, you might join today with a double contribution at whatever level you choose and receive the remaining 2008 issues of Annals and all the 2009 issues. (Drop us a note and we can even save postage on next fall’s annual appeal!)
As I mentioned in the last newsletter, my plan for financial stability for CBI requires us to double the size of the CBI Friends. If each of our present CBI friends enrolled just one member at the same level, hey presto, we’d be there in a flash. If you’d like some talking points about CBI, you can see my “Director’s Desk” column in this newsletter. And if conferences, publications, grants, archives, exhibits, and supercomputers aren’t enough, then there is always the staple argument to remember. That is, CBI depends on its core supporters for its core funding: maintaining the basic infrastructure of people and expertise so that we can go out and secure external funding for a variety of special projects. This is the basic proposition that allowed us to submit successful proposals this past year to ACM and NSF. Once again, to all of our donors, we give our heart-felt thanks.
Annual Giving for 2008
| Benefactors ($5,000) | Patrons ($2,000) | Sponsors ($1,000) |
Walter L. Anderson
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Erwin & Adelle Tomash* IBM Corporation Lockheed Martin Corporation |
Charles W. Bachman Martin A. Goetz Sally Gregory Kohlstedt* Thomas J. Misa* |
| Colleagues ($500) | Associates ($250) | |
Jonathan Coopersmith |
Corrado Bonfanti Bernard Goldstein Shane M. Greenstein David Alan Grier Ernest E. Keet |
Hans Neukom Arthur L. Norberg Robert M. Price Jack E. Shemer Linda C. Smith |
| Friends ($100) | ||
| William F. Aspray Mark D. Bowles Frederick P. Brooks Karen Duncan George E. Gourrich Richard Hedger Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Thomas P. Hughes George T. Jacobi |
Anker Helms Jørgensen |
Richard S. Rosenbloom Science Museum Library Richard Shriver Jeffery Stein Robert Trent Unisys Lockheed Martin VIP Club Haruyo Yoshida John Zabolitzky |
*Includes contribution to Arthur Norberg Travel Fund