|
|
|
|
Many people and organizations have helped get this program on the road. Some have supplied funding, others expertise, others time, insight or tools. Here is a partial list, which will grow as we travel: thanks to all.
|
First, we owe most to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, who provided the seed money to make Semester in the West possible. Please visit their website at www.mellon.org.
 Special thanks also to Beth Menczer, who donated our Semester in the West art logos. Please visit her website at http://beth.menczer.com/.
We would also like to extend special thanks to all the good folks at Whitman College who supported our efforts to get this underway, especially Barbara Noseworthy and her staff in the development office, Dean of Faculty Pat Keef, members of the Environmental Studies Committee, and the Department of Politics for letting Phil Brick slip away for an entire semester.
Several people and organizations helped us work on the trailer, Furthur II. Special thanks to Paul Hoornbeek, without whom our mobile learning center would not have been possible, and thanks also to Phil's father-in-law, Jack Holme, who appeared just in time to wire the trailer for us.
Others we could not have done without include the crew at Grover's Electric and L&G Ranch Supply in Walla Walla, Don Johnson's Trailers in Walla Walla; John Winter, who loaned us tools (we'll give them back, really we will, John); Deborah Winter, who fed us snacks and dinner and dessert; and Susan Brick, who put up with an eternal houseguest.
 Special thanks to Real Goods (http://www.realgoods.com), which supplied us with our solar power system and most importantly, the know-how to put it together. Real Goods president John Schaeffer arranged an educational discount for the solar equipment and Real Goods technician Wes Kennedy answered an endless stream of our questions during the installation process.
Next we'd like to thank the parents of the Semester of the West students for loaning their sons and daughters to us for three months of adventure throughout the West.
And thanks, of course, to Phil, for having the vision to create this course and the energy to get it going.
Finally, we owe the most to the countless individuals who have donated their time to share their experiences about the West with us as we travel.
|
