From: "Jack Price" <wp25244@West-Point.Org>
To: "fd8@west-point.org" <fd8@West-Point.Org>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:18:48 -0400
Reply-To: "Jack Price" <wp25244@West-Point.Org>
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Subject: fd8: submission from [Sandi Zets <jsandi@mail.com>]

[Posted to "usna-net" ~1800 Friday, October 13.]


Dear Navy Friends,

As most of you know, our Fall Fund Drive is now underway. We need your
continued generosity to offset the operating expenses involved in
keeping our Parents' Support Network on-line, 24/7/365. While our
efforts as Moderators and Webmasters for USNA-Net are strictly
voluntary, USNA-Net and its support organization, WP.Org, do have real,
ongoing expenses for equipment and telecommunications costs.

While we are only 1,500 families and a small part of the total
organization for which these funds are being raised, only you know the
true value of the service that USNA-Net provides to our members. Each
of you has been helped enormously in the past months. Surely that is
worthy of a contribution to insure our continued ability to provide the
support, advice and information that you have received as a member.

Please take a moment today (right now, in fact) to go to our web site
and contribute on-line or write a check. We don't ask for much
(whatever you feel you can afford) but we ask that you send your
donation in as soon as possible. The sooner we reach our goal - the
quicker this fund drive will end.

Last spring, ONE of every THREE Navy Parents sent in something. So far
this time, our participation is way behind that level. We really need
you to act now and not wait. 

It's not as if you can't be a member if you don't contribute. You can. 
We have always said that membership in USNA-Net is free. It is. But we
rely upon the generosity of that very same membership to keep this
service alive and vibrant, serving all members regardless of whether or
not a donation was received.

Since the last fund drive, your contributions have enabled us to add the
Chat Room, The Classified Ads, many, many photographs, the USNA-Net
Wallpaper, the Archive and Web Site Search Engines, and most recently,
the Electronic USNA-Net Postcards. (We know you like the postcards
because over 500 of them have already been sent in just five days with
1,950 individual visits to the new page being recorded.)

With so much web site content and so much advice and support being
offered daily, think how much better you will feel when the next appeal
message comes through in a few days, asking for a donation and you can
sit back, knowing that you've already done your part, that your donation
is already doing good for yourself and all of the other members of
USNA-Net. Our unofficial motto has always been "Parents Helping
Parents." Let's all "help" to keep it that simple.

To donate, visit our Web Site at www.navy-usna.org and click on the blue
"INFO" or "DONATE" icons on in the middle of the main page.

OR

Mail a check (payable to WP.Org, Inc.) to...

West-Point.Org Inc. 
PO Box 2108 
Abingdon VA 24212-2108

Please Indicate "NAVY PARENT - CLASS OF 'XX" on your Check.

(For those that are members but not parents, please make sure you
indicate "NAVY" on the check to insure your donation is credited to
USNA-Net.)

Thanks for YOUR support.

Mike and Sandi Zets
Westlake, OH
Parents of Ensign Mike Stoker (Class of '00) 
Moderators for USNA-Net




*** FD8 post by: PRICE John S 64 25244 <wp25244@west-point.org>

_________________________________________________________________
WP-ORG's services are funded by member contributions. Your support is
needed now. Fund Drive VIII Goal: $60,000.

http://www.West-Point.Org/donate