December 2018 Update
From
The Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust
& The Wilhelm Reich Museum
December 2018
Dear Friends of the Work of Wilhelm Reich:
As the time for year-end charitable contributions approaches, I urge you to remember the Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust in your giving. The generosity of so many of you earlier this year has helped us begin to stabilize our urgent financial crisis. And our Board of Directors has raised additional funds by selling one of our cabins and by harvesting some of the timber on the property at Orgonon.
Thus we are able to move forward with plans for next year's exciting summer conference at Orgonon, 8-12 July 2019 on the topic of Reich's writings on Work Democracy.
In addition, volume 7 of our journal Orgonomic Functionalism, the only publication where Reich's previously unpublished writings can be found, is in preparation and will appear within the next few months, available both in digital and in paper format. We have also just re-issued Reich's hard to find final book, Contact with Space, in both softcover and hardback. It can be purchased through the Museum Bookstore.
We are moving forward in our discussion with the Countway Library of Medicine in Boston, home to Reich's Archives, to digitally preserve and catalog the collection and to make much of the material available online for scholars to access from anywhere in the world. Stabilizing the future of the Archives is an urgent goal at the moment, for which we have so far raised $22,000 of the needed $450,000--a good start, but only a start. (If you would like your donation to go to this purpose, please write "Archives Preservation Fund" in the memo section of your check.)
In addition, in 2019 the Orgone Energy Observatory will celebrate its 70th year. It's a truly unique building architecturally and captures a lot of history. But as a result of its age, it is in need of significant structural renovation. The architectural assessment by a professional alone will cost $3,000-$5,000.
Accomplishing these important tasks can only be done with your financial support.
Reich's work continues to depend on support from those who realize its importance. That has never been more true than today. Please consider donating. And please consider planned giving through a bequest in your will, or by signing up as a monthly donor. We cannot thank you enough for your continued support of Reich's important legacy.
Sincerely,
Dr. James Strick
President, The Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust Board of Directors
UNTIL NEXT MONTH
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Infant Trust and The Wilhelm Reich Museum. Thank you again for your friendship
and support.
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