2525 Wallingwood #301 Texas Audubon Society Austin, TX 78746-6922 (512) 306-0225 (512) 306-0235 fax www.audubon-tx.org Texas Chapters Bastrop County (512) 321-3170 Bexar San Antonio (210) 822-4503 July 24,1998 Big Country Abilene (915) 691-8981 Stuart and Scott Gentling Central Texas 4801 Harley Avenue Waco (254) 299-8170 Fort Worth, Texas 76107 Coastal Bend Corpus Christi Dear Stuart and Scott: e-mail [email protected] Dallas County Thank you for your letter and for the many wonderful ideas and (972) 283-5216 opportunities that you have offered for our 100th anniversary celebration. El Paso/Trans-Pecos (915) 532-9645 We believe that the reception at Bass Hall is a “perfect” location for a Fort Worth celebration especially because of your influence on the building through (817) 283-3707 the murals. We hope that you will both be able to attend this event as honored guests. Frontera Weslaco (956) 968-3275 We just had a planning meeting today and - among other things - we Golden Triangle discussed your letter and the traveling exhibit of your art work. I also Beaumont (409) 768-1340 spoke with Mr. Charles Walter of the Fort Worth Museum and he is very Houston excited about the prospect and offered his assistance. (713) 932-1639 Huntsville We are thrilled at the prospect of having a picture of Texas birds to (409) 294-0666 commemorate the centennial and to debut it at the reception at Bass Hall Llano Estacado on March 5th - if you have the time to undertake this. We would also want Lubbock (806) 797-6690 to make posters from the original for the benefit of Texas Audubon. Prairie & Timbers McKinney (972) 424-9786 portfolio “of Birds and Texas” and it would be wonderful if a book might Rio Brazos College Station (409) 696-8601 be available to travel with the exhibit - or if that is too difficult so soon - to publicize/preview it at the celebration. Texas Panhandle Amarillo (806) 655-0875 We will be auctioning items off at the reception in March - for example - Travis “The Ultimate Texas Birding Trip” which will be offered on Audubon’s Austin (512) 926-8751 behalf by Victor Emmanuel. If you both are amenable to offering for Twin Lakes auction some of your color plates - we would be pleased to accept them. Temple/Belton (512) 556-8997 Tyler (903) 561-7973 Texas Audubon Sanctuaries Sabal Palm Grove Brownsville (956) 541-8034 Texas Coastal Sanctuaries Corpus Christi (512) 884-2634 Let me know if there is anything that I or my staff (especially Anne Murdock, our Development Director) can do to assist you or your brother. I will be away the first week of August - but I will be planning a trip to /Fort Worth and Dallas in September or October at which time I hope that / we can meet in person. / Sincerely, Catrionaffilazebrook.