August 13-15, 2010

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Become a Great Friend of the 2010 Festival!

If your answer is yes to any of the above then please consider contributing to the Great Lakes Folk Festival at:

Great Lakes Levels of Giving

All donors will recieve an invitation to the Festival Kick-off party, and advance details about this year's festival in our email newsletter. Festival parking passes and some merchandise will be available to you at minimal cost. For more info about purchasing these items, please contact Mike Secord (secordm@msu.edu) or Julie Levy-Weston (levyj@msu.edu)

RED CEDAR LEVEL ($25 - $50)

ONTARIO LEVEL
($50 - $99) 

ERIE LEVEL ($100 - $249)

HURON LEVEL ($250 - $499) 

MICHIGAN LEVEL ($500 - $999)

SUPERIOR LEVEL ($1,000 - $2,499.00) 

HERITAGE LEVEL ($2,500 - $5,000)

LEGACY LEVEL ($5,000 and up)

Would you like to be a member of the MSU Museum? Go to museum.msu.edu/GeneralInformation/Membership/.

Contributions made to the festival are also considered gifts to Michigan State University and as such, are tax-deductible as provided by law, and count toward membership in MSU’s donor societies.

Great Friends 2010 (Updated Aug 2, 2010)

Heritage Level
Bob & Karen Blackman
Helen Pratt Mickens & Charles Mickens

Superior Level

Jerry & Karen Jennings
Patrick & Vicki McPharlin
Robert & Olga Ovenhouse

Michigan Level
Douglas McGrady
Gary Ralph & Lynne Swanson
John & Elizabeth Schweitzer

Anshu Varma

Huron Level
William Bradford & Gloria Hecht
Daniel & Carol Edmunds

Hiram & Dolores Fitzgerald
Nancy Hammond
Alan & Judith Labovitz
Robert & Shelagh Miller

Scott Ross & Margo Turner-Ross

Erie Level
Harry Andrews & Dr. Mary Andrews
Linda & Darryl Apps
Joseph & Barbara Backus
Douglas & Polly Barr
Susan Brown
Catherine Caswell
Jeanie Croope
Carol & John Ducat
Ron & Susan Eggleston
Roy & Alice Erickson
James Forsyth
Thomas Gasloli
Charles Hagler
Nan & Terry Hall
Michael Hauser
Larry & Mary Hennessey
Angela Hoogterp & Bobbie Rosencrans
Gunnard & Anne Johnson
John & Margaret Jones
James Kennedy
James Lahti
Vincent Leone
Douglas & Patricia McCall
Mary Mertz-Smith & Gavin Smith
Michael Moquin & Dr. Julia Spalding-Moquin
Deborah Mulcahey and Peter Ollila
Frederick Neumark & Linda Reiter-Neumark
Jean Nicholas
Rajeev Patgaonkar
Douglas Peterson & Maureen Moloney
William & Sally Pratt
Bob Rentschler
John & Diane Revitte
Karen & Fathi Saad
Bob & Peg Schneider
Abby Schwartz
Sarah Shaw
Robert & Laura Stein
Jane Turner & Elias Strangas
Stephen & Elizabeth Thomas
Neal Villhauer & Linda Hegstrom
Donald & Catherine West
Eric Weston & Juliet Levy-Weston
James & Rose Zacks

Ontario Level
David Baur
Peter Born
Stephen Breedlove & Cynthia Jordan
Judith Bridger
David Brower
Christopher Clampit
Ronald Davis
Frank DeRose Jr.
Nancy Austin Dixon
Stephen & Nicola Findley
Alice Florida
Louise Forsythe
Iris & Dacid Horner
Jeffery & Patricia Irwin
Larry & Katherine King
Carole Kitti & Stanley Horowitz
Michael & Stephanie Kempa
Henry Kennedy
John Kloswick
Helen Kurtz
Randy Laney
Daniel & Andrea Langan
Beryl Levy
Milton Lipa
Leonard & Sue Lipinski
Ann McCall
Roberta McCall
Anne Missavage & Bob Borcherding
Eileen Moloney
Craig Partridge
Deb Pierce and Marcie Anderson
Leonard Provencher
Gerald Rider
George & Ann Robinson
Tamiko & MC Rothhorn
Paul Sabbag & Kim Voog-Sabbag
Robert & Renee Swanson
Penelope Swartz
Wendy Sylvester-Rowan & Jacob Rowan
Gail VanderStoep
Yuzun Wang & Yueving Cao
Vic, Elaine and Kathy Weipert
Charlotte & Robert Wilks
Patricia Windham
Dale Wolfgram

Red Cedar Level
Lois Alexander
Elizabeth and Howard Anderson
Bryan Armington
Karin and Winfiled Arneson
Barbara Backus
Julia & Jeffrey Baker
Joyce Banish
Christine Birdwell
Norris & Carol Bryson
Rhonda Buckley
John & Diane Carel
Fred & Helen Coleman
Katie Donnelly
Carol & John Ducat
Guri & James Edoff
Rafael Frank & Shirley Tighe Frank
Dorothy Frayer
Donald Freed
Grae Garl
Joe & Shawn Ghilardi
Gary Gillespie
Catherine Gimby
William & Jean Graham
Earl & Barbara Hansen
Thomas Harp
Jeen & Richard Harper
Jane & Kenneth Hilbert
Walter & Barbara Hladki
Marilyn Holmes
Lynn & Robert Huber
Mary Jenkins
Peggy Judge
Stan & Toba Kaplowitz
Marc & Christiana Kasischke
Lois Keel
Thomas Kelsch
Margaret & Bill Kingsbury
Ronald & Christine Laing
Linna Leslie
James Liesman & Alicia Dudek
Doug and Lisa MacHugh
Helen & Charles Mickens
Stephen & Dawn Parker
Marcia Polenberg & Theodore Ramsay
Daveid & Maribel Ritter
William Rose
Lisa Rosman
Richard Schneider
Martha Seaman
Mary Sexton
James Smith
Susan Bennett Stiles
Jack and Geraldine Story
Larry Syndergaard
Charlene Vogan
Edith Watts
Lisa Wilson
Doreen Wood


List Updated on Aug 2, 2010

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