cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, wigley@ucar.edu date: Fri, 19 May 2000 17:15:00 -0700 from: Dr Astrid Ogilvie subject: Fwd: UEA hit men again to: p.jones@uea.ac.uk >Dear Phil, I am sure you will agree that this is pretty bad. Can you and/or Trevor sort this out (I am writing this from home and don't have Trevor's email here -could you forward it to him please). Some pretty grovelling letters of apology will also be due to Tom. >Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:13:30 -0600 (MDT) >X-Sender: nabo@popmail.voicenet.com >To: ogilvie@spot.colorado.edu >From: "Thomas H. McGovern" >Subject: UEA hit men again >Status: RO > >Dear Astrid, > > Hi and hope all is well at your end- the semester is nearly done, and I am >off to Norway next week, so all is frantic as ever (no change in short). I >am writing to ask for help on getting UEA financial people off my case >again. Yes, I have gotten another really nasty letter threatening all sorts >of legal action against me personally. I checked with CUNY, and they say >all debts to UEA are paid long since. And now of course we don't actually >have the 750 UK pounds they say NABO owes them in the NABO account. I don't >know if I believe CUNY's accounts or not, but the bottom line is that we >made every effort to get this bill paid, and there is now nothing left to >pay with (and I don't have the money myself either). UEA is going to either >have to admit they were paid, proceed with their legal threats against me >personally, or (best option) eat the loss (if they actually have one) as >operating expenses as part what happens when you host major conferences. I >am ending the NABO grant with many times this amount lost out of pocket, and >I am not a major research university. > > I really don't feel very happy about this, as we did put a hell of alot of >money into UEA's coffers, and I think this is a lousy way to repay our >efforts to make a good conference that should have been worth more than 750 >pounds to UEA. If I wind up having to hire a lawyer to defend my family >against UEA I am really going to be seriously ticked off, as I'm sure you >would be in my shoes. Can you use your good offices and fine connections to >get this settled once and for all? Many many thanks! > >BEst >Tom >Thomas H. McGovern, Prof. >Bioarchaeology Laboratory >Anthropology Department >Hunter College of the City University of New York >695 Park Ave. NYC 10021 USA > >tel: 212 772 5410 >fax: 212 772 5423 >nabo@voicenet.com