Wheeler Gilbert, Barbara

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University of Rhode IslandDigitalCommons@URILetters (1979) Education: National Endowment for the Arts andHumanities, Subject Files I (1973-1996)1979Letters (1979): Correspondence 159Barbara Wheeler GilbertFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/pell_neh_I_42This Correspondence is brought to you for free and open access by the Education: National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, Subject Files I(1973-1996) at DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Letters (1979) by an authorized administrator ofDigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@etal.uri.edu.Recommended CitationWheeler Gilbert, Barbara, "Letters (1979): Correspondence 159" (1979). Letters (1979). Paper 163.http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/pell_neh_I_42/1631100 Sixth Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20024 April 4, 1979 Hon. Claiborne Pell United States Senate Russell Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Pell: Your most welcome letteI arrived this morning concerning my attempts to "gain axis" into the Endowment for the Arts. It gave me the impetus I needed to try once again to create a path for the American Indian people. The meeting with Gordon Braithwaite, Minority Affairs Coo~dinator, couldn't have been better. To wit: next Monday there will be a meeting where we will go over the paperwork, meet with the Con-gressional Liaison and speak with the people from the four areas I have been trying for so long to work with; Expansion Arts, Special Projects, Dance and Folks Arts. From there, Mr. Braithwaite wants us to plan a brief program for this summer (with funding to come from those four branches), to work on a Chairman's Planning Grant so that we will be able to submit viable proposals for funding for next year. The people on whose behalf I have been struggling were delighted when I told them the outcome of this afternoon's meeting. You certainly did aid me, once again, in an effort for others. My thanks and those of those minority people are yours, along with our respect and gratitude. Respectfully, P.S. Mr. Braithwaite was not at his office last week when you were over there. He asked me to take him to meet you some time, as he too, is an admirer or yours! 

Letters (1979): Correspondence 159

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