Feb 4, 2015

 Hi Everyone,

The funding goal for the book has been met, and on the final day!  Now to the work of more interviews, more writing, and a lot of editing and design work.  I really want to thank all of you for stepping up to help make this a reality.  The final fourteen days have been rather amazing.  At the end of a four month fund raising effort nearly half the goal amount ended up arriving in the final two weeks.  Now that's what I'd call kicking it in!

This is about Track and Field, so somebody has to get an award.  So the winner (last person to take it over the top) is Rod Richards, team manager for the 1975 girls team that won the State Championship.  Rod has been a big supporter of this all along and was one of the first people to contact me when the original email about this went out.  Thanks Rod!

But no one could have gotten it to the goal if not for each contribution.  This was really a team effort.  Many people came back to give more than once.  Many other people gave rather large amounts.  And many donors, who I knew certainly didn't have much to give, gave what they could because they obviously really wanted to see this happen. In the end it all came together, right at the finish line.

Thanks again everyone,

Bob