Conference 7.286::digital

    Just this morning it still lists that under VTX activities.
    The least they could do is update our activity/discount list.
    I wonder what else has been taken out......guess we'll find 
    out by making special trips and having to turn around if we
    didn't bring enough $
    

    They'll all be gone before we know it.
    
    Jim C.
    

    
    
      It would be real interesting to see just how much DEC supported these
    organizations over the years.  It would appear to me that Digital may
    have "given" much more than taken.  Now that we (company and people)
    are facing tougher times maybe they could give something back.  
    
    Ths tee's me off that it was not announced.  I would be real
    embarrassed if I had taken my family on an outing and did come up
    short on money and could not enter because we were not told.
    
    It appears that throughout all these "transistions" that communications
    are dropping.  I am all for saving money and increasing my (and all of
    our) likeness of keeping my our jobs.  But we need to hear the messages
    and directions from above alot clearer and for certain more timely.
    
    Just my opinion!
    
    Bob

    Just a thought...
    
    Did it seem as though the peson at the door was kidding?  Some people
    do like to kid like that.
    
    Seems stange that they would have just gotten the word from Digital
    being a Sunday morning and all.
    
    If it is true, I agree it should have been communicated before hand
    in Livewire.

    Hey, two months ago they told me at the MFA that the 
    DEC-free-admission was history (so I parted with
    a few pictures of George Washington).   I didn't even
    think to look it up in VTX when I was back in work.
    
    

Can someone provide details on where in VTX this information is, so next 
time I vist Boston I know what's available.

Thanks

    I had the same thing happen to me at the Cordova museum in Licoln MA,
    talk about feeling stupid!
    
    			Bart Lasky
    

    > VTX
    > 1  (LIVEWIRE)
    > 3  (GREATER MAYNARD)
    > 2  (ACTIVITIES)
    > 97 (DISCOUNT DIRECTORY)
    
    

re .8:

I doubt that GMA is on the Livewire menu in Australia.

    
        re:.9
           I doubt if someone in Australia could find many bargains on the
    list anyway.
                                             Denny

    Just tried VTX, and it still is listing the Museum of Fine Arts.
    
    Neal

    I received MAIL from my supervisor this morning informing me that,
    effective January 1st, DEC's matching gift program is reduced to 50%.
    

    ... anyone know, or can state definitively?  I took my family to the
    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum last weekend, and paid $ for admissions
    and for the Sunday concert, but I expected to do that.  I also packed
    along my badge in case I could convince 'em to add the MFA to that
    day's "vulture-for-culture" activities, but they declined.  I woulda
    been plenty surprised to have had to PAY at the MFA...
    
    Not that I think it's wrong for DEC, in its present straits, to
    maintain perks like these -- it's that I agree, we should be told.
    
    Now that the issue's been raised, would someone who knows (forward it
    to those in control so that they can) answer it, please?  Tnx, Dan
    

              <<< Note 2208.13 by RDVAX::KALIKOW "Le not juste" >>>
                -< Straight scoop on MFA, de Cordova, etc...? >-

>    Now that the issue's been raised, would someone who knows (forward it
>    to those in control so that they can) answer it, please?  Tnx, Dan
    
The contact is Sheila Fantozzi @MSO.

I contacted her, and she said LIVEWIRE's being updated.

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                   Support for scholarship programs reduced

  Since 1982, Digital has supported three summer scholarship/enrichment 
  programs for employees' dependents:  Phillips Academy, for international 
  students 15-17 years old; the Massachusetts Advanced Studies Program (MASP),
  for Massachusetts high school juniors; and the St. Paul's School Advanced 
  Studies Program for New Hampshire high school juniors.

  However, costs have continued to increase.  Based on a review of the 
  programs, Digital will now pay half the cost of tuition, room and board to 
  scholarship recipients in all three programs. 

  In addition, the number of available Digital-sponsored scholarships within 
  each program has changed.  Phillips Academy has allotted Digital 60 
  scholarships.  MASP has allotted 25 scholarships.  The St. Paul's program 
  will be limited to 12 scholarships.

  To receive a Digital scholarship, the applicant must be a dependent of a 
  regular (full-time) Digital employee, who must be on active status at the 
  time of dependent's acceptance. 

  In addition, the MASP and St. Paul programs require that high schools 
  nominate students for consideration.  Applications for Phillips Academy must
  be requested via electronic mail from Joanne Urgotis, Corporate Community 
  Relations, @MSO or POWDML::URGOTIS.

  Students are eligible to attend a specific program only once.

  Scholarships covers tuition, room and board only.  Books, lab fees, 
  transportation, and incidental expenses are the responsibility of the 
  student.       

  All scholarship recipients are selected by the academic institutions based 
  on individual program criteria.  Digital only identifies employees' 
  dependents.

  For more information on any of the programs, contact Joanne Urgotis, 
  Employee Scholarship Coordinator, at DTN 223-6083.