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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Volunteers are Needed<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The 36<SUP>th</SUP> Annual Conference of the Association for Gravestone Studies will be held at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon on June 18-23.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are interested in volunteering to help, there will be a volunteer meeting on Friday, April 26<SUP>th</SUP> at Oregon State Parks, 725 Summer Street, NE in room 124B at 9:30.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are unable to come, but would like to help contact Judy Juntunen, <A href="mailto:rycraftjuntunen@aol.com"><FONT color=#0000ff>rycraftjuntunen@aol.com</FONT></A>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Conference week is packed with interesting tours, classroom sessions, lectures, and workshops.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Since this is the first AGS conference in the West since 1999, a number of sessions and lectures focus on the west from the keynote address about Chinese immigrants in Oregon to a film and discussion of the community history in Portland’s Jewish cemeteries to the influence of Euro-American culture on tribes in Northeastern Oregon.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white; mso-line-height-alt: 7.2pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Of concern to all of us is what we can do to protect our cemeteries from vandalism. The defense and response to vandalism is the topic for both a classroom session and an evening lecture.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Need help in your cemetery, there is a session focusing on how to engage public participation in caring for cemeteries. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white; mso-line-height-alt: 7.2pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The classroom session of the Cemetery Preservation/Conservation will be offered twice—morning and afternoon—on Thursday.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even if you don’t want to do the fieldwork portion of this workshop on Friday, there will be lots of valuable information in this session. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">More information is available on the Association for Gravestone Studies website, </SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A href="http://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences.htm"><FONT color=#0000ff>http://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences.htm</FONT></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Registration forms can also be found on the website.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Registration is due by Wednesday, May 15, 2013.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Late registrations will be charged an additional fee.</SPAN></P>
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