| # | Name | Comments |
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| 2551 | Anonymous | Are you kidding me! How about cutting some of the funding from Football, swimming, baseball or basketball, or how about Tom Buchanan’s pay maybe 15% could have saved it? I went here at least 2 times a year from the time I was 4 years old until 22 years old. Glad I moved to Colorado where education is actually important to raise my children. |
| 2552 | Maria del Valle |
| 2553 | David Peek | |
| 2554 | Hailey Peek | |
| 2555 | Leslie & Perry Irving | Please reconsider your decision to close the museum |
| 2556 | Steven Schafersman | Professional geologist and paleontologist |
| 2557 | John Hanks | Maybe you could drop big time sports. |
| 2558 | michael Oberhofer |
| 2559 | joan s. borst |
| 2560 | Marjory Rea |
| 2561 | Irene L. Hause | |
| 2562 | Al Carlson |
| 2563 | Lauren Mekeel - Wolfer | |
| 2564 | William Sawaya, Ph.D. | Among my earliest childhood memories are the dinosaur skeleton and the geology exhibits there. It was my only stop the last time I drove through Laramie. I was looking forward to taking my own kids there. It is sad to see that things are so shortsighted at the flagship research school in a state that has contributed so much to our understanding of geology and paleontology. |
| 2565 | Jacqueline Howell | |
| 2566 | Sarah Mercer | This is outrageous; the prez should be fired, tarred & feathered! |
| 2567 | nancy deines | |
| 2568 | BLAIRE VAN VALKENBURGH | |
| 2569 | john ferro | |
| 2570 | Jane Taras Carlson | Wyoming is not blessed with numerous scientific museums. I hope means can be found to keep this one open. I have driven from Story to view it, and I know it provides high educational value to a state unusually dependent on geological information. |
| 2571 | Lucas M. Todd |
| 2572 | Anonymous | |
| 2573 | Esther Gilman-Kehrer | How sad that financial constraints at a university that spends so much money on sports has affected a landmark that every small child in Laramie has been touched by. How sad that one day my decendants will not have the opportunity to see the dinos. As an alum, this is very enraging. |
| 2574 | Jaden B. | This museam has been in laramie ever sence i was a little girl, and its not fair to take that away! |
| 2575 | Anonymous | |
| 2576 | Roy P | |
| 2577 | Adie B | |
| 2578 | Robyn Edwards |
| 2579 | Claire P. | |
| 2580 | Caroline Thompson | Heartbreaking, disgusting, lack of leadership at the college. Sound so familiar. |
| 2581 | Anonymous | Cut the sports.Keep the bones.This is crazy. |
| 2582 | Jacqualyne Cody | Dear Board Members:
The museum offerings are a gateway to stimulating the curiosity of young children. Inspiring them to want to learn about their world and science in particular.
The house allowance for the University President seems like a good place to start cutting back not on an educational experience.
Sincerely, |
| 2583 | Kathryn A. Stone |
| 2584 | Ronald Seymour |
| 2585 | Glenn Mattei, Esq. | I am in shock that the Wyoming Geological Museum is closed. I had no idea until recently. While in China reading the China Daily newspaper International News section, I ran across what I considered an odd article. The article referenced the University of Wyoming and the work Brent had done with foot prints of dinosaurs in the US and similar species in the UK. Next to it was news of North Korea and their nuclear test. The Chinese held the same news worthiness to this article about fossil footprints.
Brent and the museum have received international acclaim. Not sure this is a wise time to close the museum? Plus Brent has worked with programs for all ages. How will we help all these people that have an interest in paleontology?
I have worked in China for the last two years. Yes they too have serious budget problems as their economy is based on ours so if the US is in trouble they are too. They would not close down any museums so why should we? Knowledge can not be measured in dollars and cents. I look at myself. The Peabody Museum (Yales Museum) was the reason I have devoted every spare minute in my life to paleontology. If it was not for going to the museum and stimulating my interest in paleontology I would not have made to critical finds (the only dinosaur bone at the time found in Connecticut -12 years old, the only fossil earthworm every found-315 million years old.
Although from the east coast I have been to the Wyoming Geological Museum 2 times!
Suggest there is always a better way to make budget cuts. You do not want to cut science!
Plus just today reading an article back in the states again the museum and Brent was mentioned. This time in relation to foot prints that were found to be potholes in Arizona.
The work the Brent and his assistant have done in Shell was also remarkable. If money needs to be cut instead of cutting by closing the museum, suggest raise funding by private donors, hire an efficiency person to help develop a plan at the University, something other than cutting funding for the curator and the museum.
Glenn M. Mattei. Esq. 7/14/09 |
| 2586 | Anonymous | |
| 2587 | Betty Harris | I believe the reason for closing this museum is to stifle teaching of evolution. The college president wants the people of WY to be ignorant. What are they going to do when the coal runs out in 20 yrs? Ah, I know. send all their sons to run the military industrial complexes war machines to steal resources from some other country that has coal! |
| 2588 | William Rosebrock | |
| 2589 | Tom J Kuzma |
| 2590 | Karen Sterling |
| 2591 | CHANTAL DOKTOR |
| 2592 | Dick Artley | The United States would be a much better place if the christians left their religion at the church door! |
| 2593 | Alida Montanez-Salas | |
| 2594 | Jesse Burgess | |
| 2595 | Valerie Magee | |
| 2596 | Katherine | |
| 2597 | Anonymous | |
| 2598 | Matt Winch | |
| 2599 | William & Doris Gerhart | The shame of closing an educational museum when the saving is only 1% reduction in the savings goal. |
| 2600 | Susan M. Fischer | I am a past graduate of U WYO and attribute a large part of my success as a cancer research scientist to my education at Wyoming. The Museum IS science and to close it is shut the book of knowledge. |