Latest update: is 3399.70, thanks to a check from 2catmom. Thanks also extended to Heybud, Dwight, Dr. Condello, TJ Hudson, Burgermeiser, JHAP, DIED, Mr. McButterpants, Theo, Dave Davidson, Bob Lusk himself, Nate Herman, Bing, Ewest, Greg Grimes, Randy Edgar, Sunil, Pedro Rodriquez, and Willis. Other funds included here are from Rainman and Pedro for the blue tilapia sale, and from Sunil and Cecil for the redear reproduction. The 2009 Auction is already a huge success, and we haven't even made it to PB III yet! Two of our current students will come, as will one former student. We'll have a couple of posters based on their research near the silent auction table.
I just got back from the American Fisheries Society meeting in Nashville (actually, it ends today). I don't want to seem like I'm bragging, but "your" Jesse West students did a great job. Does everyone recall Justin VanDeHey was the winner of the research endowment for 2008? Well, he won the best poster award at the meeting in Nashville for the work support by the Jesse West Endowment. His article on high tech fish diets was in the March-April 2009 issue of Pond Boss magazine. In 2007, you supported Melissa Wuellner, who won a distinguished service award at the meeting. Like I said, I don't want to seem like I'm bragging, but I want you good people in the Pond Boss family to know you are supporting good people! Thanks again.
