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Hello ’63
Classmate!
I am not good at short
emails or conversations, as you know, and especially at this time!
Please humor me and give it a read! This is important information for
the future of “Kewpies of David H. Hickman High School.”
First if you are one of the ‘Great ’63 Kewpies’ who have already made a
donation or donations to the ‘Charley Blackmore’s Class of ’63
Scholarship’; thank you, thank
you very much! Now
here is the second part of my email.
Again I need your help! If
you have already made a donation, I hope you will do so again and if you
haven’t, I hope you will give it some serious consideration. The
Class of 2013 was the fifth class to receive the two annual $500.00
scholarships. Therefore, $5,000.00 has been spent of the $14,151.85 that
has been donated. I didn’t realize that the money wasn’t being invested
by Hickman High School, who you have been making your checks out to for
the last several years. There has been no significant interest earned on
that money and the balance is roughly $9,000.00. That money has been
moved to the “Community Foundation of Central Missouri” and I hope you
will look them up and see what good things can be accomplished by moving
our money to them. By
moving the money, our $9,000.00, to the Community Foundation and if we
can raise another $4,000.00 by the end of the summer, that $13,000.00
will endow one $500.00 scholarship or another $11,000.00 would endow two
$500.00 scholarships. Once the total reaches $20,000.00 all additional
money raised will be used to increase the size of the scholarships or
increase the number of scholarships given to each Hickman Kewpie
graduating class. Or once we reach the $13,000.00 or $20,000.00 level we
can stop the collection of donations and let the one or two $500.00
scholarships remain.
I plan to start off this
new and improved Charley Blackmore’s Class of ’63 Scholarsip, Fund
Raising event by donating $1,000.00 and hope that I can count on you to
help me. DO
NOT make your check to Hickman High School!!!!! Please make your check
payable to “Community Foundation of Central Missouri” and enter
“kewpie.net Scholarship Fund” on the memo line of your check. Mail the
check to: Community Foundation of Central Missouri, P.O. Box 6015,
Columbia, MO 65205-6015. You can now make a donation with your credit
card at;
https://gkccfonlinedonations.org/give/blac22.asp
and it will be a tax-deductible donation. You will receive a ‘thank you’
and tax receipt for your donation, which did not happen before. I will
be able to track your donation through the Community Foundation of
Central Missouri and I will give recognition to all donations on the
scholarship page of
www.kewpie.net
as I have always done since the scholarship started.
However there is one change “IF YOU WANT YOUR DONATION MADE AS A
MEMORIAL ON THE WEBPAGE, YOU MUST MAIL THE CHECK TO ME (make it payable
to the Community Foundation of Central Missouri) with the MEMORIAL INFO
or SEND THE MEMORIAL INFO TO ME and send your check on to the Community
Foundation of Central Missouri. I
am really excited about this new change! Not only will it be a little
less work and bookkeeping for me (sorry Mr. Thomas) but once you look
over what the Community Foundation of Central Missouri is all about, you
will see that we are doing the right thing to get the biggest “bang for
our buck!”
With the Greatest of Kewpish Regards,
Charley
Charley Blackmore, Owner/webmaster;
www.kewpie.net
2312 Deer Creek Ct
Columbia MO 65201-3564
573-442-1873
http://www.kewpie.net/cbcscholarship/cbc63scholarship.html
Community Foundation of Central Missouri PO
Box 6015
Columbia, MO 65205-6015
http://cfcmfoundation.org/who-we-are/board-of-trustees/
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