James Underwood Crockett Agricultural Technology Growth Fund

December 2003 mini-grants

about 5% of the December 31, 2002 principal

Proposed at March 27, 2003 annual meeting in Dedham, Mass. and

further solidified at August 2, 2003 meeting in Amherst, Mass.

 

Amount     Grantee                                                                                        (trustee)

 

$1,500.00  Windsor County Farm Bureau Association, Inc.                       (K.R. Bishop)

      Marion D. Barr, secretary, P. O. Box 295, Reading, VT  05062

      Fed ID #03-0183526       grants to grade school educators for teaching

      Agriculture in the Classroom curriculum

   

  1,400.00  The Stockbridge Foundation, Inc.                                             (R.E. Kane)

                   Frances M. Barrett, trust officer  c/o U.S. Trust Co.  frances_barrett@ssga.com

 Fed ID #04-3124903      9th gift toward establishing an endowed chair to support

 the Director of SSA and named for former Dean & Director Fred P. Jeffrey

 

  1,000.00   Friends of Whitman Park                                                      (S.M. Maloney)

June A. O’Leary, administrator, P.O. Box 4, Whitman, Mass. 02382

 Fed ID #04-6001365    gift toward perennial tree, shrub & flower plantings

 junejoe@attglobal.com

 

     900.00  Mass. Fruit Growers’ Horticultural Research Center              (G.M. Power)

                   Joseph E. Sincuk, farm superintendent        sincuk@pssci.umass.edu

                   Fed ID #04-2211069         new, larger, better road signs to fruit orchard

                   c/o Janet Muzzi – gifts registry, Memorial Hall, Amherst, Mass. 01003

               

     600.00   Elm Research Institute                                                             (R.C. Tryon)

                   John P. Hansel, director   11Kit Street, Keene, NH 03431

Fed ID #22-6105925                              libertyelm@webryders.com

                   gift toward research on trees resistant to elm disease                           

 

600.00  Wareham Cranberry Field Station                                            (E.M. Bobola)

                   Justine E. Vanden Heuvel, Professor, researcher    justinev@umext.umass.edu

                   Fed ID #04-3167352    water bath for vine samples in bog flooding practices

                   c/o Janet Muzzi – gifts registry, Memorial Hall, Amherst, Mass. 01003

 

500.0     The Marshfield Agricultural & Horticultural Society                  (J.P. Davis)

Carlton Chandler, executive   P.O. Box 5, Marshfield, Mass. 02050

Fed ID # 04-6003258     workshop for children at the Fair of windowsill herb

gardens to be taken home                       delahange@aol.com

 

500.0     Massachusetts 4H Foundation                                                 (A.F. Ogonowski)

              Mary M. McBrady, Exec. Director    22 Eliot Street, Ashland, Mass. 01721-2208

Fed ID #04-2303708     (5) Mass. 4-H Camp grants of $100 for gardening projects

to be entries in agricultural fairs           mmcbrady@mass4hfoundation.org

      

$7,000.00   total                                                            (Jim Crockett ATG Fund trustee contact)

 

Grants previously made (1983-2002) $113,600.00.

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