Joe Berg Seminar CommunicationsFall 2008 E-Mails November 26, 2008 Dear Joe Berg Science and Humanitites students, Graduation is upon us! I sincerely hope that all of you, Juniors and Seniors, have found the 2008 seminars to be mind expanding and fun! The lists of seminars and presenters, for your review, are on the Joe Berg website; www.unf.edu/coas/chemphys/phys/csp/joeberg/index.htm. Some of the speakers will attend Graduation, and all of them will welcome your thanks and further questions. But first, Juniors, Ramie Stradley needs more help from you with MOSH events over the holidays. If you have not yet completed your MOSH service requirement for your junior year or are not yet signed up to do so, please call her at 396-6674 X 229 and sign up. These shifts are available: The final regular seminar for 2008 for both Science and Humanities will be Joe Berg Graduation, December 4, 2008, in the Robinson Theater (Building 14A) at the University of North Florida. A map is attached. Mr. Preston Haskell will give the address, “China and India: Challenges and Opportunities.” You are all invited to the reception immediately following the ceremony. Please thank Mr. Haskell for his address and, Science students, thank him for the architecture and art seminar we just enjoyed at the Haskell Building. The speaker was Mr. Alan Wilson. Please do not leave the auditorium until the ceremony is ended. Last year a number of people left in mid ceremony, and it had a chilling effect on those still to receive their certificates. Graduation ceremonies often seem long, but PLEASE be courteous to all. The ceremony will be over around 9 p.m. All students, Juniors and Seniors, must check in with me between 6:30 and 6:45. Carpooling is a very good idea, as parking spots will be scarce, and you must pay $3 for a parking pass. Get your parking pass at the small building at the campus entrance. Please allow plenty of time in order to check in before 6:45. Seniors, your specific instructions are on the enclosed page. As I hope you’re all aware, Joe Berg is still in a financial crisis. Donors and potential donors have been invited to this ceremony, and those that come will be looking at you. If you can be your courteous, appreciative, and intellectually curious normal selves, I’m sure you’ll impress our visitors and help me to nail down on-going funding for Joe Berg. We’ve got to keep this program going! Juniors, the new Sophomores will join us at MOSH for our next seminars in late January. Humanities will meet on the 22nd, and Science on the 27th. I will depend upon you to be good role models for the newcomers on how to maximize their Joe Berg seminars. I will email you in mid-January with details. We all have a great deal to be thankful for! Celebrate tomorrow. I look forward to seeing all of you at Graduation next week. And I wish you all a joyful holiday season. You are a joy to me! Sincerely, Ms. King
November 12, 2008 Dear Joe Berg Science and Humanities students, Like our new letterhead? Tell me what you think of it. Next week are the last seminars before Graduation 12/4, which is a regular seminar for all of you. So everyone, be careful about absences! Juniors, please get your MOSH service scheduled with Ms. Stradley, 396-7062X229 and volunteer@themosh.org. Just call her and leave a message, and I think she’ll call you back. Let me know if you are having trouble with this. Seniors, I am also attaching the list of prospective Joe Berg 2008 graduates. Please tell me immediately if I should change any spellings or schools. This list will be on the Graduation programs, in the Times Union, and go to your schools. Thanks for the help. I want to get you right. On November 18th, next Tuesday, the Science students are going on another field trip! At 6:45 pm, be at the Baptist Cancer Institute, 1235 San Marco Blvd., immediately south of the Fuller Warren Bridge (I-95) overpass. It’s also a few blocks south of MOSH. Dr. Doug Johnson, radiation oncologist, pilot, painter, and X-JB parent twice, will talk to you about new developments in cancer research and how one becomes an M.D. Then he will show you his radiation equipment, including the Gamma Knife, used on brain tumors. As cancer is touching so many families, you will be glad to learn about successful treatments and promising research. We will be crowded in the Institute’s lobby, and some of you will be sitting on the floor so please dress accordingly. Do bring your best manners, ask lots of questions, and, when we tour the clinic, move quickly and make room for those behind you. Many of you asked for a cancer seminar, and Dr. Johnson gives a very intense one. Remember, NO GUESTS ON FIELD TRIPS UNLESS SPECIFICALLY INVITED. THAT INCLUDES PARENTS, FRIENDS, AND MEMBERS OF THE OTHER SEMINAR. This field trip will be very crowded, and the bodies there should only be Science Seminar students. Thanks for understanding. The next Humanities seminar will be at MOSH on November 20th. Jacksonville attorney, Doris Goldstein will introduce you to New Urbanism, which has become her legal specialty. This method of city planning promotes the creation of mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly communities that make it easy for people to walk to shops, restaurants, schools, and other homes. She will show you many functioning examples of the concept and explain how it is also environmentally sensitive. Bring your questions about how to plan cities. Science students who enjoyed Alan Wilson’s architecture lecture at Haskel will probably also find this very interesting, and you are certainly welcome to visit. I hope to see all of you next week! Sincerely, Davron King, Joe Berg Director
October 21, 2008 Dear Joe Berg Science and Humanities Students, First, all of you please be careful of your absences! Be sure that you know how many seminars you have missed, and use those allowed absences very carefully. I’m glad that many of you are attending the Bonus Seminars for their own value and for makeup credit. I still have a few of the seniors’ Joe Berg Program Descriptions for submission with your college applications. Please get them from me at the next seminars. And, Juniors, Ms. Stradley at MOSH asked me to tell you that while many of you have signed up for MOSH service, she still needs help with: 10/31 – 5-9PM – Monster MOSH, costumes optional (This is really fun!) 11/15 – 12:45-4:15PM – Clean Air Day 11/22- 9:30-12:30 – Native American History Day If you can work any of these shifts and get your MOSH service out of the way, please do it! To sign up, call her, 396-6674 X 229, or email her, volunteer@themosh.org. Enjoy! Guidance Counselors are sending me names of sophomores to test for JB. It’s not too late for you to urge good candidates to ask their teachers to nominate them to Guidance. I have to have the names from the schools by 10/27. Though it is not a Bonus Seminar, Humanities students are invited to attend the next Science seminar. And it is a field trip! Science students, and Humanities guests, on October 28th we will meet at the Haskell Building, at 111 Riverside Avenue, 32204, for an Architecture Seminar given by Alan Wilson, Haskell’s Chief Architect. Haskell is a Jacksonville firm, designing and building structures all over the world. Following the seminar, you are all invited on a tour of Joan and Preston Haskell’s collection of abstract expressionist art which is hanging all over the building. Preston Haskell uses the art to encourage creativity in his employees. You will get a terrific introduction to the art and science of architecture and see some world class paintings and sculptures! The Haskell building, a work of art itself, is on the River between the Acosta Bridge and the Fuller Warren (I-95) Bridge, just SW of the Times-Union building. Go straight back through the building’s lobby to the cafeteria on the River. Be sure to check in with me between 6:45 and 6:55. The seminar will be over around 8:30 as usual, but if you choose to take the tour after the seminar, you will probably be done about 9PM. It will be worth it! And please be aware that Haskell and Alan Wilson have welcomed Joe Berg students for architecture seminars for many years. This year, the Haskell corporation made a donation in support of Joe Berg, at Raina Dave’s urging! I plan to ask their Public Relations Director for more financial support, and you can help by expressing your gratitude for seminars and for the donation to Mr. Wilson and to the tour guides, who are also Haskell employees. Thank you. The next Humanities Seminar will be November 6th at MOSH. And though it is not a Bonus seminar, Science students may find it extremely interesting and are welcome to attend. Humanites junior, Kyle Coon, is going to tell us about the cancer that took his eyesight, about living without vision, about goal setting, and about his hobby of mountain climbing! It’s a lot to cover, but Kyle, who has appeared on Oprah, is eager to share with you his perspectives on life. Kyle isn’t planning to use any audiovisuals, so if you would like to see some of his mountain climbing images, go to www.teamsightunseen.com for pictures from the Ankascocha Trail to Machu Picchu, in the Peruvian Andes, from Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and from this summer’s climb of Mt. Hood in Oregon. Things are not as impossible as they may seem! I look forward to seeing all of you at these great seminars! Sincerely, Ms. King, Joe Berg Director
September 28, 2008 Dear Joe Berg Science and Humanities students, I am very glad that 15 Humanities students came to the College Success seminar, and also glad that most of you seemed to find it helpful. However, many of your feedback sheets said you wished I had invited schools from farther away. They are not likely to come for a group as small as we are. Admissions representatives are traveling around to college fairs and to schools where they will see many more students than our number. But the other reason that I explained in my emails to you is that finding particular schools is your job. All the schools that came, UNF, UCF, UT, GT, and Flagler College, are very fine schools, but I had tried hard to find representative types of schools, public-private, huge-small, general-technical, urban-suburban, etc. You could learn a lot about life on various types of schools by listening to these reps describe life on their campuses. Please take what they said and decide what type of campus will best help YOU to flourish in your freshman year. Do some soul searching about your own strengths and weaknesses. Then look for schools that have the qualities you need. Time magazine in 8/21/06 had a cover story “Who Needs Harvard? Forget the Ivy League – The new rules of the game say the best fit is what matters.” I strongly recommend this article which you should be able to find in your school or public library. It describes many variables from campus to campus that you can consider. The reps who came to us brought literature from their schools, so I picked up some of what was left from each. I’ll bring it all to MOSH at our next seminars there, so any of you may have it. Sadly, it is clear that a number of you are not reading my letters/emails. Perhaps you are depending on your parents to just tell you where and when to come to Joe Berg. Parents, I urge you to encourage your sons’ and daughters’ self reliance. And, students, how about seeking that? This is a very easy aspect of managing your own affairs. Soon, independence will be much more of a challenge. Anyway, the letters/emails are full of information that I think you need to know. I try hard to anticipate your questions and concerns. Life will go more smoothly if you will take 3-4 minutes to read the letters. Seniors, I will bring the JB Program Descriptions to the next seminars, so that those who haven’t yet gotten theirs can do so. Science Juniors, Ramie Stradley, the new MOSH Volunteer Coordinator will come to your next seminar and will hopefully bring sign up sheets for your MOSH service. All Juniors, let’s get this service done. Call Ms. Stradley for dates now, and you will have lots of choices. She hasn’t been very good at leaving out sign-up sheets at the seminars. I will remind her, but you can call her. You can reach her until 5PM. All of you, the JB sophomore entrance exam will be 11/8, but schools have to submit their lists of names to us by 10/27. Guidance counselors have all the necessary information, and you can help in two ways. Remind your guidance counselors and English, math, science, foreign language, and history teachers to nominate students to come take the test. Occasionally, some schools just forget, and the students loose out. The other thing you can do is tell the sharp sophomores you know about Joe Berg and urge them to ask their teachers to nominate them to guidance. If some school has lost our testing info, I will be happy to send it to them again. Thanks for your help with this. The next Humanities seminar will be a field trip! Yea! And about music! Lots of you asked for a music seminar, and this is a great one! On October 2nd, this Thursday, we will meet in the Percussion Room (1410) of the Fine Arts Building (45) at UNF. Professor Charlotte Mabrey, who is also Principal Percussionist with the Jacksonville Symphony, will talk and demonstrate to us percussion techniques for orchestra, for ensembles, and for solo work. Charlotte is a gifted musician, teacher, and long-standing Joe Berg presenter. You will be amazed at what you see and hear! Sorry, no guests on field trips. First of all, ALLOW PLENTY OF EXTRA TIME to find a parking space. Parking is scarce at UNF at night. I’ll attach a map. If you are being dropped off, Lot 2 will work well. If you are parking, BE SURE TO GET A PARKING PASS FOR $3 AT EITHER OF THE SOUTH ENTRANCES. Carpooling is a great idea. If a parent is coming, they can wait for you in the library (Building 12). PLEASE NO GUESTS ON FIELD TRIPS. SPACE IN THE ROOM WILL BE VERY TIGHT. If you are parking, first read your parking pass and respect its restrictions. Then try the parking garage (44) right next to the Fine Arts Center. If that fails try any of the nearby lots. As a last resort, Lot 18 at the far north end of campus is likely to have space at night, but it will be a 10-15 minute walk to the Fine Arts Center. If you go directly there to park, you will have to feed your $3 into a machine to get your parking pass. And be sure to do so. This is all a hassle, but I think it will be worth it. When you get to the Fine Arts Center go to the end of the lobby near Lot 2. The Ticket Office will be there and a sign on a door that says Joe Berg. Go through that door and then look for Room 1410. Whew! See you there! The next Science Seminar will be October 7, 2008, at MOSH. Dr. Rody Borg, Economics Professor at JU, Kelly’s dad, and also a long-standing JB presenter, will talk to us about the US economy. I always ask him to come in a presidential election year, but this time our economic crisis may overshadow the presidential political drama. In the next week, there will be much economic news, and possible he will just decide to try to explain to us what has actually happened and predict what may happen next. Guests are welcome, and, Humanities students, that includes you. This is not a Humanities Bonus, but all of our lives will be impacted by these current events, and you may well want to come. I have said this many times, but some of you haven’t heard it. As members of Joe Berg, you are welcome to visit any of the other group’s seminars unless specifically requested not to. Guests are NOT welcome on field trips unless specifically invited, and occasionally there are reasons to prohibit guests at MOSH, but usually you are welcome to come. So, maximize your JB membership! As I have previously described to you in emails on 9/14, 9/18, and 9/21, the World Affairs Council lecture at UNF by John Zogby on national and international polling will be a Bonus seminar for b oth groups. I have RSVP’s for 30 of you, which is great! Please follow the directions in the emails, and check in with Ms. Chang or me between 7 and 7:10. We will go in as a group to our reserved seating. If you decide later that you also want to come, try printing out your own ticket. As of today, they are available. Be sure to find one of us to check in and get your attendance credit. We look forward to seeing you all soon! Sincerely, Ms. King
September 21, 2008 Morning, all! And happy autumnal equinox!
September 18, 2008 Dear Joe Berg students,
September 14, 2008 Dear Joe Berg Juniors and Seniors, It was very good to see all of you at our first seminars! Thanks again to our many benefactors for keeping us afloat so far! Both of our first speakers, Shaina Hyder and Dr. Jason Persoff, enjoyed fielding your many questions, and so it seems that you enjoyed their introductions to sociological research and the physiology of storms. I was fascinated! Everyone who hasn’t, please email back to me the feedback sheets that came with your 8/26 letter. The new MOSH Volunteer Coordinator, Ramie Stradley, will come to meet you and talk briefly about seminar procedures and, for the Juniors, MOSH service procedures. Again, I urge you strongly to complete your MOSH service requirement this fall! Sign up and get it done! I think that the sign-up sheets will be at the seminars. But you can always call or email Ms. Stradley at Ms. Hamel’s number and address (in your rosters and on the green sheet). Seniors, we will have your Program Descriptions ready to distribute at the next seminars. Just photocopy them and include them with your college aps. We hope and believe that they will help to set you apart to your Admissions screeners. Best of luck with your college selection process! I have a quick JB story to share with you. My husband and I are just back from a wedding in New Orleans. (That city’s condition is a much bigger story.) The bride, Meredith Cox, is a JB graduate and was Salutatorian at her Episcopal HS graduation in 1999. She got a degree in Chemical Engineering at Tulane and is currently working at Folgers in NO. One of the bridesmaids, Leah Scanlin Ronald, was another 1999 JB and Episcopal graduate. Leah told me that she married James Ronald 11 months ago, and that they met as summer college interns in the Mayo Clinic SURF program. And she had learned about the SURF internship program from a Mayo speaker at Joe Berg! See? Joe Berg possibilities ARE endless! Leah and James are both currently completing their M.D.-Ph.D. programs at the University of Washington in Seattle. Just for fun I’ll attach a picture of Leah and James and Meredith and Leah. (Sorry, guys, I know this may not thrill you.) So, with that intro, I’d like to make sure you all know about the Mayo Clinic SURF Program. If you or your college friends are interested in a medical career, please consider medical research. We need great medical researchers! The Mayo Clinic offers college students an excellent opportunity to learn about biomedical research as a career through their Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. You will get paid to work and learn! Details are available at www.mayo.edu/mgs. (And there’s another reason to print and hold on to your JB letters.) And with that introduction, I can tell you that the Mayo Clinic Foundation here in Jacksonville is sending Joe Berg a check for $2000! The Mayo Clinic Research Department has long supported us with speakers and tours of their research laboratories. Dr. Persoff is a practicing M.D. at the Mayo Clinic, and you Science Seniors will remember Dr. Anastiadis, a Mayo cancer researcher. So Mayo believes in YOU! It is wonderful that they are now helping as well with our financial crisis. Back to business. Both Science and Humanities students are invited to attend the World Affairs Council lecture at UNF on October 14th. John Zogby, President/CEO of Zogby International will talk to us about researching national and international public opinion. This will be a Bonus Seminar with make-up attendance credit for both groups. Please put this date on your calendars, and I will give you details later. If parents or friends want to come, and it should be really interesting, they can print out their own free tickets at www.unf.edu. The next Humanities Seminar will be September 18, 2008, at MOSH at 7PM. Dr. Joan Carver, Retired Political Science Professor and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Jacksonville University is coming to share with you her opinions of the challenges before each the Democrats and Republicans in this fall’s election. I usually find her calmly dispassionate analyses to be refreshing and insightful in a heated political season. I hope you will too. Bring lots of questions. The next Science Seminar will be September 23, 2008, at MOSH at 7PM. This will be our annual College Success Seminar and a Bonus Seminar for the Humanities Students. The format will be different from last year’s Humanities College Success seminar where we separated the Juniors and Seniors to address each group’s timetable. This year we are inviting representatives from a variety of types of colleges and universities to help you with your first challenge of self analysis to determine what type of collegiate experience will best help you to thrive for the 4 years. They will describe for you the very different life that you will live if you attend a large university vs. a small private school or a liberal arts college vs. a technical school or a big city campus vs. a small town or rural school. We are not trying to introduce you to specific schools. That’s up to you. We hope to present a variety of types. Then you need to think seriously about yourself so that you can make a great match. The representatives will also address how to submit a killer application, how to maximize financial aide, and how to accomplish a strong first semester! So we will cover a lot. Your parents are welcome to join you. And Humanities students, I hope that many of you will come. Check in with me for your attendance credit. Ms. Chang and I look forward to seeing you all very soon. Sincerely, Davron King
September 3, 2008 Hi, Everyone!
Summer 2008 E-Mails August 26, 2008 Dear Joe Berg Juniors and Seniors, I hope that you have all had a refreshing and stimulating summer! It is a great pleasure and relief to me to be sending you the 2008 August welcome back letter! Thank you for your patience with how slow I am, but I’ve been waiting and hoping for several GREAT pieces of news, and here they are! Vistakon, a Division of Johnson and Johnson, a local contact lense manufacturer and provider of past Joe Berg speakers, has given us $10,000!!! They liked our program! So, Juniors, you can graduate from Joe Berg! What a relief! We still need an on-going sponsor or endowment funding, but we have some time now, to look for it. All of you, please keep thinking and asking. And when employees of Vistakon or Haskell or Delores Barr Weaver, herself, come to seminars or graduation, please find a moment to personally thank them for their support. They have done it for you, not for me! And I have a new Co-Director, which is great for many reasons! Sue Chang has taught in a number of Duval high schools. But she is recently retired from teaching at Mandarin High where she also helped to run the Community School program. Please add her contact information to your rosters. It is: Sue Chang, 716-5278, flpandasue@aol.com Additionally, our new Joe Berg secretary is Sandy Bernreuter, the Chemistry and Physics secretary at UNF. Her contact info for your rosters is: 888-859-9240, sbernreu@unf.edu. So we are ready to go! I hope you are all enjoying the beginning of school. I have been scheduling some wonderful fall seminars, but I am eager to get your suggestions and ideas also. Enclosed is a feedback sheet for you to fill out and return. Please verify that you do want to continue participating in the program. Then, if there are any changes in your home address, phone, school, or, especially, your e-mail address, please fill in that correct information. Please do not fill in info that hasn’t changed. Then give me your ideas for programs and speakers for the coming season. Please be as specific as possible. Some terrific seminars have resulted from student suggestions! Email this back to me. Do that by saving it, filling in your responses, saving it again, and then attaching it to an email to me. Please don’t forget to do this! I need to hear from each of you. Attached is the seminar calendar again. Please mark your calendar with the dates of your seminars. Note that the last fall seminar is the same for both groups, December 4th, a Thursday night. This will be Joe Berg Graduation for seniors and a regular seminar for the juniors. Also the September 23rd Science seminar will be our annual College Success seminar and a Bonus Seminar for Humanities students. October 14th will be a Bonus Seminar for both groups. We have been invited to attend the World Affairs Council lecture at UNF given by John Zogby, President/CEO of Zogby International, who will describe issues involved in polling national and international public opinion. Fascinating stuff! Please review the attached Joe Berg Rules, so you are reminded of what we expect of you. Juniors are allowed 3 absences in the entire year. Seniors are allowed 2 absences this fall. Any of you may visit the other group’s seminar when the topic interests you, except on field trips or when we request that you do not for some other reason. Remember not to bring any food or drinks into MOSH. Do bring something to write with, but do not do homework or text message in the seminars as it is insulting to our speakers. We will continue coming in the side door and meeting in the Conference Room. Be there after 6:45, check in and be seated by 6:55 PM. Always be courteous and appreciative to our speakers! Coming soon is the list of MOSH service date choices from which the Juniors must select. Do it early, and get it done. Seniors, you have already fulfilled this obligation, and if you still need community service hours you must look elsewhere. However, some of the organizations that have welcomed us might be happy to have your help. Call them and ask. For sure, the Zoo will need help preparing for Spooktacular in October! Carving pumpkins is a kick! Heather Hamel has left MOSH to teach history at St.Johns Country Day School. Her replacement as MOSH Volunteer Coordinator will be Ramie Stradley. All contact info for Ms. Stradley will be the same as for Ms. Hamel. And you will meet her soon. Remember to print out this entire email and to keep all Joe Berg communications in your Joe Berg file. Contact me at any time at 724-9695 or djkcar@bellsouth.net with any questions. If you keep everything in your Joe Berg, file you won’t have many questions. Toni Jung and Paulette Ang are our new JB webmasters, and our site is http://www.unf.edu/coas/chemphys/phys/csp/joeberg/index.htm. If Joe Berg is canceled due to a hurricane or other disaster, we will try to notify you by email and/or put an announcement on the web site. If power is down in much of Duval (Computers are out.), JB is canceled! If the Beaches are evacuated due to a hurricane, Joe Berg is canceled! If Duval County Public Schools are closed, Joe Berg is canceled. Let’s hope none of these happen. Our first Humanities seminar will be September 4th at MOSH from 7-8:30. Joe Berg alum and FSU Honors sociology student, Shaina Hyder is coming from Tallahassee to tell you about her summer in Bangladesh, teaching English and studying the impacts of newly-found jobs on the lives of women there. “Changing Salaries and Stagnant Mentalities” describes the issues emerging with women’s independence in developing countries. Is this a good thing? It will have many ramifications, and Shaina was eager to learn some of them. I will also attach one of her summer emails that includes some websites you will find interesting. The first Science seminar will be September 9th at MOSH from 7-8:30. Dr. Jason Persoff, Mayo Clinic Internist and amateur tornado chaser, will describe the physiology of storms and show you his tornado footage from this spring’s chase in the Mid West and West. This becomes one of our most exciting seminars! Get a preview at his website, www.stormdoctor.com. Tornados run rampant in Florida, but they are more visible in the West. So come and learn about what we are up against. All of you are welcome to visit the other group’s seminar anytime we don’t ask you not to. I think many of you will enjoy the two opening seminars! For all of you, our fall College Success seminar will be a Science Seminar on 9/23. It will be a Bonus Seminar (Make Up) for the Humanities students. It will follow a different format from last year’s Humanities College Success seminar. At this annual seminar we try not to introduce you to specific colleges but rather to help you understand the different types of college experiences available to you. Then you will need to do some soul searching about what undergraduate environment will best suit your particular learning style, career needs, social skills, emotional needs, financial situation, etc. We will also talk about financial aide and maximizing your freshman year. See you all soon! Remember to print this out, review your Rules, record your dates, store your letters, check the referenced websites, and fill out and return your feedback sheet. Thanks! Davron King
August 6, 2008 Hi, Folks!
June 30, 2008 Dear Joe Berg Science and Humanities students,
May 31, 2008 Dear Joe Berg Science and Humanities Students, Spring 2008 E-Mails April 14, 2008 Dear Joe Berg Parent: The Jacksonville Joe Berg Society needs your help! Since 2005, the University of North Florida’s College of Arts and Sciences has been the sole benefactor of the Jacksonville Joe Berg Society. UNF’s $10,000 annual investment has enabled the Society to provide stimulating seminars and programs to your child and hundreds more in our community over the years. Now, with state budget cuts forcing the University to make tough decisions of its own, the Joe Berg Society, unfortunately, will not be receiving the $10,000 necessary to support the program during the 2008-2009 school year. If funding is not obtained, the Society will cease to exist effective this summer! Together, we may ensure that this valuable program continues. The Joe Berg Society has created a tax-deductible fund with the UNF Foundation to raise the $10,000 needed to support the program next year. I ask you to join me in this endeavor for your child and for gifted local teens for years to come. Please consider the value of Joe Berg. In its 48th year in Jacksonville, the Joe Berg Society provides between 24 to 28 ninety-minute seminars per year, each of which is attended by 60-75 outstanding Duval County high school students. The Society today includes 158 gifted students from 18 local schools. These students attend the non-credit seminars because they value the quality and diversity of the programs. You are familiar with the topics offered in your child’s series, but a complete list is available on our student-run website, www.unf.edu/coas/chemphys/phys/csp/joeberg/index.htm. Our dynamic speakers come from UNF, JU, FCCJ, and a variety of professional and artistic areas of expertise. They are eager to share their passion with this group of students, and many of them have come back again and again when asked. Many organizations also invite us to return repeatedly for tours and demonstrations, including the Mayo Research Laboratories, Theater Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Zoo, the Cummer Gallery, MOCA Jax, the UNF Gallery, the Haskel Corporation, Baptist Cancer Clinic, the Jacksonville Skyway, and the MOSH. The World Affairs Council of Jacksonville has begun publicly recognizing Joe Berg students attending their Global Issues Lecture Series. And UNF is happy to continue offering library privileges to Joe Berg scholars. What you can do We have never charged students to participate, and we do not intend to. We want to help these bright scholars. But you are the best judges of the impact of the Joe Berg program. We are asking you for three kinds of help. Please consider assisting in any or all of these valuable ways.
We will be happy to knock on a door and/or make a presentation about the Jacksonville Joe Berg Society. Please contact me at djkcar@bellsouth.net with any suggestions. Please help us and our enthusiastic young people, so the program may resume as usual in late summer. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Davron King Joe Berg Director |
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