Dear Friends of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center and Library,

We have just been informed that the State of Ohio is planning to drastically reduce funding to historical organizations in Ohio, including the Ohio Historical Society, which would have a major effect on the Hayes Center. There is still time to change this outcome. If you are an Ohio resident, would you please either call or email your state representatives?

The Ohio Historical Society has a website which makes this process very easy - please go to

http://capwiz.com/ohiohistory/utr/1/GPWUKSQCVK/BOUAKSRCNB/3532208861

to see how you can help. Please ask them to restore our funding and feel free to mention the Hayes Presidential Center and our activities and programs (like the Library) which you enjoy and use.

For further information on this crisis, please go to

http://saveohiohistory.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/governors-budget-takes-ohs-to-1986-funding-levels/#more-209

Thanks for your support.

Becky

Upcoming classes:

2009 Classes Sponsored by the Keller Family and Friends in Memory of Marlo Snyder Keller

June 25, 2009 – Thursday – Beginning Genealogy, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
August 22, 2009 - Saturday - Internet Genealogy, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Call 419.332.2081 to register. Free.

Becky Hill
Head Librarian
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Spiegel Grove
Fremont, OH 43420-2796

419-332-2081 ext. 31
419-332-4952 (fax)
bhill@rbhayes.org <mailto:bhill@rbhayes.org>
www.rbhayes.org <http://www.rbhayes.org>