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From The Transition Committee Re: Progress by Arthur Morey, Chairperson We have continued to meet with one another and with outsiders to determine the best arrangements to make for the campus. The first week in May we interviewed two project managers who submitted proposals. We will be talking with a developer later this month. We have also been contacted by organizations interested in leasing space. We will probably be able to report something concrete in a month or so. A couple of weeks ago the Waldorf School signed a letter of intent to take possession of a piece of property on Sunset Blvd. In conversation, the director of the school has said they will stay through the end of the lease in June 2006 but it seems probable that they won't want to extend the lease. (They can't leave before the lease is up unless they give us six months' notice.) There are a number of countervailing, counterbalancing factors in trying to find the right thing to do. Our sense of history, personal and institutional, pulls one way, our reasonable hopes for and dread of the future pull another. Optimism balances against apprehension. Fascination with the new balances against love of the old. Beauty may be truth and truth beauty but aesthetics and business arithmetic don't take us to the same place. The glorious big plan is hard to compare with the comfortable simplicity of what we have now. Your prayers are appreciated.
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