To the editor:
Thank you for your article on Professor Barr's passing. I just wanted to write a few words. I was a friend of Don's, a former student and one of his teaching assistants.
Don Barr was such an influential and…
The art museum has been awarded a $500,000 Kresge Foundation challenge grant to support its new underground extension. The museum must raise an additional $1.5 million by July 1, 2009, to receive the challenge grant. (Feb. 4, 2008)
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