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News Archive - 2001

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On November 1, Fran Pope was hired as the new coordinator of Mizzou Tigers for Tigers. Fran has been with MU's Fisheries and Wildlife Department since 1993 working in other areas of program coordination and development. Janice Faaborg, Academic Advisor for the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, will continue to participate part-time with Mizzou Tigers for Tigers, but will refocus her efforts more on her advising duties.

A beautiful color brochure was designed by the University Printing Services for Mizzou Tigers for Tigers. This brochure will be used for promotional information. If you are interested in receiving a brochure, please send us your name and address and we will put one in the mail to you!

Kids and tigers

The Mizzou Tigers for Tigers booth at the St. Louis Science Center gave children a chance to learn about tigers.

Fran and Janice, with help from a group of MU students, set up a display booth at the St. Louis Science Center for Mizzou Magic Day. Over 800 middle school children from St. Louis area attended and had the chance to learn more about tigers in the wild. The children had fun with the map of the world and identifying where tigers live, learning tigers facts, drawing stripes on tiger faces, and taking a tiger quiz.

Most of the summer was spent laying the groundwork for our new leadership. Planning began for Mizzou Tigers for Tigers merchandise to sell in the University Bookstore outlets, new note cards and T-shirts were produced for donation gifts, volunteers and thank-yous Design plans for an interactive portable kiosk educating the public about Mizzou Tigers for Tigers and tiger conservation began to take shape.

May 15 was Mike Baltz's last day as Program Coordinator with Mizzou Tigers for Tigers. He will be serving The Nature Conservancy in the Southern Illinois District . Janice Faaborg, Academic Advisor for the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, was hired to continue the program, sharing her duties between advising and Mizzou Tigers for Tigers. Janice earned a BS in Fisheries and Wildlife at MU in 1978, a lifetime secondary science teaching certificate in 1985, and a Masters in Environmental Reporting from the MU School of Journalism in 1997.

New academic leadership for Mizzou Tigers for Tigers will arrive for the Winter 2002 semester at MU. Dr. Matt Gompper, currently a conservation biology professor at Columbia University in New York City, will join the Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences faculty at MU in January. He will become the education and research anchor for Mizzou Tigers for Tigers as well as teach mammalogy and conservation biology courses to undergraduate and graduate students.

Bill Cosby, America's favorite comedian, filmed a public service announcement for Mizzou Tigers for Tigers while in Columbia for a concert. Produced by Exxon-Mobile's advertising agency, Fleishman-Hillard of New York, the 30-second spot will run on both television and radio. Be on the look out for it.

On Founders Day, February 9, 2001, Mizzou Tigers for Tigers blazed its first trail into Asian Tiger Country with a $10,000 donation to two conservation projects in Nepal, a stronghold of our mascot, the wild tiger. Administered through Save the Tiger Fund, our partner organization, the two projects will increase the amount of land suitable for tigers as well as improve the quality of life of their Nepali neighbors. Save the Tiger Fund, a non-government organization within the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, is the curator of wild tiger conservation funds worldwide. Mizzou Tigers for Tigers worked with Program Coordinator Tracy Walmer in Washington, DC, to choose the destinations of our donations.

Mizzou Men's Basketball Tigers helped Mizzou Tigers for Tigers fundraising take off at the Kansas State game on Feb. 7 with a paper airplane contest. Participants paid $1.00 for each unfolded airplane, then aimed for prize targets on the court at half-time. The basketball Tigers won, as did the wild tigers, raising more than $1,500 toward conservation efforts.

Mizzou Tigers for Tigers went on the road to Phoenix, Ariz., in February to host a presentation for the Valley of the Sun Alumni Chapter. Held at the Phoenix Zoo, the event attracted a wide range of interested folks and raised $1,000 for the program.