Dear Melissa,

     You may notice that the hour is quite late here as I spend some fairly lengthy hours on The Shuster Project work, however, I was so honored and thrilled by your award notification email that I just had to respond to it immediately.

     I wanted to thank you and StudyWeb for bestowing that award upon us and including us into your Criminal Justice page for History and Social Studies, as I believe you have chosen wisely where to place us.

     It is a wonderful tribute to the dedicated people, my friends and colleagues, that give tirelessly of their efforts to help me to explicitly and accurately portray the facts of tobacco industry Fraud & False Claims issues as sweepingly and diversely as we are accomplishing and receiving recognition for in many quarters and venues.

     I immediately went to the link you supplied me and reviewed our location and your review and found both to be quite acceptable and well appreciated.

     I have many friends in the education field and have forwarded the location on to them, as well.

     Our focus has always been threefold in our approach, that being ongoing exposure, presentation and explanation of the facts, presentations and initiatives towards resolutions of and solutions to the tobacco industry Fraud & False Claims and compiling presentations focused and directed towards students, teachers, politicians, national organization leaders, parents, minorities, the elderly and general public in order to address these issues in a multimedia fashion that empowers them to participate at their own level of involvement.

     Your Academic Excellence Award brings The Shuster Project prestigious notice, additional credibility and crucial school Curriculum applications certification that firmly establishes our content and multimedia tools as worthy and important school subject matter and we thank you for that recognition.

     If ever your web site hosts "live" chats or any of your members or visitor academics host such chats, I would be honored and pleased to participate and bring full-circle the work of The Shuster Project and it's dedicated staff...which is making "participation" the key to accomplishment.

     I have asked my webmaster to place your Award on each and every page in The Shuster Project web site if it is possible to do so.

     Both your letter to me and this response will also have a special place in my Correspondence 2000 page as one of the singularly most spectacular things that has been bestowed upon us in our one year and 4 months online.