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Mark Evans and Confluence Technologies, Inc.
Mark Evans, the President of Confluence
Technologies, Inc. has the profile you want for Pittsburghs future. The
young CEO of a financial services company that was one of the high tech
industrys 50 fastest growing companies in 1998, he travels widely, brings
important national clients to Pittsburgh, and he loves the city. Carnegie
Museums represents a broad slice of what is good about Pittsburgh, he
says, and he backs it up by being a dynamic volunteer in the Corporate
Committee of Carnegie Museums.
Recently he brought his investment fund
clients to Pittsburgh for a three day user-group meeting, and his corporate
membership helped show them that Pittsburgh is a good place to do business.
His clients enjoyed a catered banquet at Carnegie Science Center, a private
showing of the Omnimax film Everest, and a reception at The Warhol. T
Confluence Technologies, Inc. is an outstanding
corporate citizen, supporting Carnegie-on-Tap, purchasing a table on Founder
Patrons Day, holding events at the museums, and matching employee gifts
to educational and cultural institutions. Corporate membership helps Mark
Evans give something back to his community. His own staff enjoys corporate
membership, his clients get benefits, and his family uses the museums regularly.
It doesnt really take a lot of time,
money, or energy to have an impact, he says. Many of the annual corporate
gifts at Carnegie Museums are in the $500 to $1000 range. Intelligent
people see the obvious return on that after ten seconds of thought.
He took his four-year-old daughter to see
the Road Kill exhibit (where beetles clean the bones of dead animals)
at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and he says that afterwards they
had an eight-hour conversation about the circle of life, about rust and
oxidation. The museums facilitate conversations, says Evans. They
show how big and different the world is. The museums are the childrens
eyes, where they can see the Arctic, and Africawhere they can stand on
the mud next to the animals.
Mark Evans is going to help Carnegie Museums
seek corporate support from the high tech community. Its one way that
Confluence Technologies, Inc. can benefit clients, employees, their family
members-and Pittsburgh itself.
Member Profile: The McDonald Family
The McDonald family has been members of Carnegie
Science Center since it opened. More than that, it is part of their lives.
They live on Troy Hill, several miles away, and visit ofteneven
walking to it in the summer when the kids are out of school. The
McDonalds know every exhibit, take classes, and see every Omnimax show
soon after it opens.
Theresa McDonald, herself a Junior Troop
Leader for the Girl Scouts, knows what kids like, and knows how to arrange
opportunities for them at the Science Center. Her 12-year-old daughter
Jennifer car-pools down with friends for lengthy visits. Recently
7th-grade Jennifer and her oldest brother Matthew worked on their Pennsylvania
Junior Academy of Science (PJAS) project at the Science Center: testing
which kind of antacids work best, commercial types or generic brands, and
wrote thank-yous to the companies that helped her. Matthew won PJAS local
and district awards for his project on the effect of anti-bacterial soaps
on germs, and starts at Penn State next fall in chemistry. At 15
Jeffrey really likes the trains in the Miniature Railroad & Villageall
the kids are scouts and can get a Merit Badge in Railroading at the Science
Center.
Theresa likes the Kitchen Theater,
and has made recipes like strawberry ice cream at home. Her husband
William works long hours, and joins in when he can. The McDonalds do it
all, from sports like climbing the rock wall to measuring the speed of
a thrown baseball (the boys once got in a film doing that), to watching
metal casting in The Works, to riding in the motion simulator.
The McDonalds are now Reciprocal Members,
having upgraded their fun at the Science Center to include all of the Carnegie
Museums. Now they can bring friends: guests privileges are one of the
benefits of this new level of membership.
Thank you!
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh gratefully
acknowledges the following organizations and companies for their in-kind
support of recent membership activities:
Breadworks
Carmike Theaters
Giant Eagle, West View
National Amusements
Natures Goodness
Paragon Wholesale Foods Corporation
Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre,
Inc.
Pittsburgh Public Theater
Playhouse Theater
T.G.I. Fridays
The Frick Art & Historical Center
Travel Films
Check the Calendar in this issue for each
weeks Travel Adventure Films. Offered free to Carnegie Museums
members, Travel Films are shown on the following schedule:
Sundays 2:30pm Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
Mondays 8:00pm Mt. Lebanon High School
Tuesdays 8:00pm Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
Wednesdays 8:00pm North Hills Jr. High
School
(note return to original location)
Thursdays 8:00pm Baldwin High School
February 28March 4 Bermuda:
Gem of the Atlantic
Clint Denn
The moderating influences of the Gulf Stream
makes Bermuda the most northerly tropical point for reef-building corals.
Its natural land crabs, white-tailed tropic birds, European goldfinches,
and yellow-crowned night herons, making this region a living gem.
March 7 11 Bobbie Burnss Bonnie
Scotland
Sherilyn Mentes
Scotland conjures up visions of kilted
lassies, a monster lurking in the inky waters of Loch Ness, and Robert
Burns, who put the joys and sorrows of Scottish life into verse. Travel
through pine forests and bleak moors to peaceful little St. Andrews and
serene Edinburgh.
March 14 18 Crown Jewels of the
American Rockies
Joe and Mary Liz Adair
Strung like pearls along the towering Rocky
Mountain chain are four magnificent National Parks: Glacier, nestled against
the Canadian border; Yellowstone, a looking glass into the Earths gaseous
and molten core; the Grand Tetons, Americas youngest range; and Rocky
Mountain, the park of parks at the top of the continent.
March 21 25 South Africa: Out of
Darkness
John Wilson
Go wild and explore the world in one country!
Lush coastal forests, incredible mountain peaks, serene beaches, flowering
deserts, wide open grasslands, national parks, a wealth of wildlife, and
new cultural relationships offering an example of hope to the worldthats
South Africa!
Giving Made Easy
This new section will show how various
types of gifts to Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh can help to meet personal,
business, or tax needs, in addition to supporting the work of the museums.
Why You Need a Will
At income tax time, many of us think about
organizing our financial matters to minimize future taxes. A Will is an
essential part of any personal financial plan.
Having a Will ensures that your property
is distributed after your death as you intend. In the absence of
a Will, property that does not pass to a joint owner or under a beneficiary
designation, such as on a life insurance policy or retirement plan, is
distributed according to the intestate law of your state. This
disposition may be quite contrary to your intent. For example, under
Pennsylvanias intestate law, your spouse is entitled to only $30,000 plus
one half of the balance of any property that is part of the probate estate.
Your children get the rest.
Another reason to have a Will is to name
the people whom you would want to serve as guardians of your minor children.
If guardians arent named in a Will, guardianship is determined by the
Orphans Court, which may produce a result much different than what you
would want.
Finally, a Will ensures that the charities
for which you provide during your life are included in your estate plans.
Presuming annual growth of at least five percent, a bequest in the amount
of twenty times your normal annual gift to a particular charity ensures
that the charity will continue to receive your annual gift each year in
perpetuity. A charitable bequest is deductible for inheritance and estate
tax purposes. To discuss a bequest to Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
or one of our Museums, call or write to Sally Davoren, Director of Gift
Planning.
Travel with Carnegie Museums
Galapagos Islands Adventure July
31 August 10
Nowhere in the world can match the fascination
the Galapagos Islandsd have hadfor travelers and naturalists over the past
150 years, says Seddon Bennington, director
of Carnegie Science Center and host of
this special trip.
A well-appointed yacht will be home while
you explore the unique life and environment of the Pacific Island group.
Sign up soonspace is limited to eighteen explorers.
Colorado: See the Earth from Top to Bottom
Denver, Colorado Springs, and Breckenridge
July 27-31, 1999
A once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Earths
rare secrets. Join Director Jay Apt of Carnegie Museum of Natural
History, and Mineralogist Marc Wilson in an unforgettable descent into
Colorados famous (and soon-to be-closed) Sweet Home Mine, a former silver
mine where great mineral specimens come from. Take a rare VIP tour
of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), where the United States
government operates its Space Control Center in a vast underground complex
inside Cheyenne Mountain, safe from nuclear attack.
Highlights of the trip include the exciting
exhibits of Denver Museum of Natural History, still-operating 19th-century
equipment of the Western Museum of Mining and Industry, and the Garden
of the Gods, where incredible red rocks rise up from the ground. Top it
off by going all the way up Pikes Peak on a cog railway.
Call 622-5774 for information on theses
and other great trips designed exclusively for members of Carnegie Museums.
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(c) 1999 CARNEGIE magazine All rights
reserved. E-mail: carnegiemag@carnegiemuseums.org
