Kevin,
I don't know if you received this letter in your regular email or not so I thought I would attempt to reach you this way. Also, anyone from Pgh. area interested in getting something going as far as local meetings or projects go, please send me an email with your ideas. lenpierce@...

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Subject:	Chapter Contact
Date:	Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:57:16 -0500
From:	Len Pierce <lenpierce@...>
To:	kfs113@...

Kevin,
    It was good to hear from you. I thought you may have lost my 
address. I am still interested in being the Pittsburgh area contact. I 
would like to know exactly what it is that I will have to do and how 
many members I will be contacting. I will try to do a good job for PA 
and the Society. On March 1 at your meeting I presented a packet of info 
to Dr. Zubrin about a closed loop water recycling system that they are 
in desperate need of at the research stations. The problem is that the 
thing costs $25,000 and he informed me that the society didn't have the 
cash to buy it. Since then, I have given a lot of thought to the problem 
and came up with a plan. I contacted the Utah dept. of water 
conservation to see if they might be willing to pay for the system in 
exchange for empirical data that we would collect on the system and 
maybe TMS doing a promo with them about water conservation. ( the TV 
exposure would help us too!) They emailed me back and wanted 
to set up a 
meeting in Salt Lake City, so I emailed Dr. Zubrin explaining my plan 
and passed along all the info. He wrote back and thanked me for the lead 
and said he would follow up on it. Kevin, this is an example of the kind 
of ideas I like to work on - solutions to basic technical problems. 
Sometimes I can identify the problem on my own (as above) and come up 
with a solution but I feel it is better to identify the problems through 
a group discussion - or present a problem, discuss possible solutions. 
Anyhow, get back to me soon - We have a planet to colonize!       Len
PS I really enjoyed your meeting and the presentation- You guys are 
doing a great job out there!