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Author: JOHN L MASON at MONSTFOl Date: 9/26/95 4:09 PM Priority: Urgent TO: LAURENCE J O'NEILL at MONCG19 TO: MICHAEL A PIERLE at MONESHOl CC: MARILYN A HARTNETT CC: SHARON R DINKELKAMP CC: EARL R BEAVER at MONESHOl CC: VIRGINIA V WELDON at MONEXEOl Subject: ENVIRONMENTAL GIVING___CONTINUED ------------------------------------------------------------------ Message Contents Larry and Mike: Just when you begin to understand things, they change. I have a couple of additional considerations for the Environmental Giving list. We are having conversations with the San Diego History Museum; they are interested in having Kelco/Monsanto support their creation of an Environmental Science Education Center, as a part of the Musuem's educational outreach in San Diego and beyond. Because Peter Kovacs, J the CEO of Kelco is on the board of the Museum, we will likely want to support the effort in some way. However, I've told Peter of the work your Task Force is doing and promised that the San Diego project possibility must be evaluated through the channels of the Environmental.Giving group. We can't have many separate efforts in environmental giving going on, or we will lose control. I'll bring - some background information on the San Diego project to the meeting tomorrow afternoon. The second consideration isn't as framed as the one above. This morning I met with Earl Beaver and Mel Rueppel to discuss the progress being made at the Center for Environmental Science and Technology (CEST), at UM-Rolla. Mel runs the center. It was created several years ago, after a $1 million gift from Monsanto Fund, Chemicals, Ag -and Corporate Research. We agreed that the Environmental Giving group needed to know more about the work going on at CEST, and, possibly there would be value in adding Earl Beaver to the Environmental Giving group, to bring in the perspective of the business angles of environmental priorities. Earl was to call you, Larry, and chat about these things, but we need to consider them. Now, that wasn't too painful, was it?' See you tomorrow. JLM '- DSW 135296 STLCOPCB4035273 SHOWCASE PROJECTS LIST (9/26/95) * East St. Louis revitalization * Nature Conservancy Great Plains initiative * Household Hazardous Wastes Cleanup * Galapagos Islands * Forest Park Water Ecosystem * Developing Countries Team (many projects in Africa and Asia) * Project Earth Health 2000 * Izaak Walton League Mississippi River protection program DSW 135297 STLCOPCB4035274