The potential $75,000 disaster

March 5, 2008

On Monday, the University of Montana released a Memorandum of Understanding between the Adams Center and Howard Rose, Elton John’s agent. The memo — little more than a handshake agreement on paper — outlined an agreement to give the Elton John AIDS Foundation $75,000 in return for the Rocket Man’s second Missoula concert. Though its end result is charitable, executing the memo’s provisions is potentially disastrous.

Sean Breslin Montana Kaimin

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Adams Center nets over half of donation

Story by Elizabeth Harrison and Alex Sakariassen

The Adams Center has raised between 60 and 80 percent of the $75,000 promised to the Elton John AIDS Foundation in an as-yet unsigned memo with the Howard Rose Agency, venue director Mary Muse told the Montana Kaimin Thursday.

“Quite frankly, the $75,000 … we never regarded it as something that might not happen,” Muse said. “It’s a very do-able thing.”

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