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Colorado Secretary of State Certificate Of Good Standing for the International Slide Rule Museum

The International Slide Rule Museum, LLC, was incorporated on November 9, 2018 as a 501(c)3 (A57 - Science and Technology Museums) Colorado non-profit corporation. Colorado ID Number 20181884948, IRS EIN 83-2486423, as International Slide Rule Museum dba ISRM. See the Articles of Incorporation. As of January 1, 2024 slide rule donations will no longer be tax deductible. However monetary gifts will continue to be tax deductible on your US taxes.

Since its initial incorporation, most of the operating decisions were made at the sole direction of the museum's director and curator. During the Covid-19 pandemic, ISRM created a weekly on-line meeting using Google meet in order to provide a virtual access to ISRM and have discussions about slide rule collecting and research as well as to have a social time together. The meetings were helpful in providing input on the future of ISRM. Consequently the curator has asked several patrons and Friends of the Museum to be on an advisory board to assist in positioning the museum's collection and on-line web precense for the future. The extensive ISRM website needs to come-of-age with social media and mobile platforms.

The Board of Directors and other Friends of the museum meet informally at the On-line virtual face-to-face.social get together. Three times/week, two times on Wednesday and once on Saturday
Go to link: meet.google.com/vwc-bqsf-jvg.

Weekend 3rd shift: SAT. at 9 AM MST (4 PM UTC SAT.)
2nd shift: WED. at 9 PM MST (4 AM UTC THU.)
1st shift: WED. at 9 AM MST (4 PM UTC WED.)

All are welcome to attend and partipate in ISRM activities..

	Michael V. Konshak - Louisville, CO. - Director and Curator Curator of the International Slide Rule Museum. Oughtred Society Award 2009. Graduated from Colorado State University - Pueblo, Mechanical Engineering (1981). Vietnam Combat veteran US Navy (1965-1969). Product development engineer in the areas of computer mass storage with 34 U.S. and world patents. for Digital, LMS/OSI, Optoech, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems. Fellow of the Oughtred Society (previous OS webmaster) and member of UKSRC. Oughtred Society Award 2009.
	Rebecca A. Konshak - Louisville, CO. - Trustee and Treasurer Becky received her bachelors Degree in Finance from UCCS and a Masters degree from Denver Seminary. She currently serves on the ISRM Board of Directors as Trustee and functions as the Secretary. Her High School slide rule is in the Concise gallery.
	George Anderson - United States - ISRM Advisor. Collector of slide rules and transits. Friend of ISRM. Graduated from the USAF Academy in 1964. Served 22 years in the USAF as a pilot and Aeronatical Engineer. Earned his Masters degree in Aeronatical Engineering in 1973 from USAF Technology School.in Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Served as the director of the Travis Air Museum and supervised the recovery of 27 historic aircraft from around the world. Worked at TRACOR Aeospace and later with United Airlines as a staff engineer. In 1995 he worked as an investigator for the National Transportaion Safety Board (NTSB) in Washington, DC.Most recent employment was with Titan Corp, as a Senior Systems Engineer. Gearge helped in develope a search startegy for finding Amelia Earhart's missing Lockheed aircraft. George is active in the ISRM weekly social meetings.
	Michael (Mike) Frey - New Hampshire - ISRM Advisor. Retired. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. His website Freystuff.com
	Kenneth Gilley - College Station, - ISRM Supporter. Kenneth P. Gilley – College Station, TX Ken is a mechanical engineer for Odin Heavy Industries in Bryan, Texas. His work revolves around high-performance polymer manufacturing for the oil and gas industry. Specializing in melt processing polyether ether ketone (PEEK) blends, he has also had the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research and development for new severe-service polymer composites. He graduated from St. Mary’s University with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering in 2023, and he is currently pursuing a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Ken is involved as an ISRM volunteer in the restoration of slide rules, with help from his younger brother Matthew..
	Dylan Thinnes - Scotland, UK - Website Advisor Dylan Thinnes is a professional software engineer with experience in compiler engineering, web development, type theory, and machine learning.
	Marvin Clarence - Jakarta, Indonesia. - Head of Public Communications, Education, etc. Assists the curator in researching slide rule ephemera in multiple language platforms. Letters to Marvin Clarence from the Queen of Denmark and Buckingham Palace in support of ISRM.
	Prof. Michael J. Syphers - Batavia, Illinos - ISRM Advisor. Mike is Research Professor of Physics at Northern Illinois University and a Senior Scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in nearby Batavia, Illinois, USA. His career has been dedicated to the design and study of large-scale particle accelerators and charged particle beam transport systems, as well as to education in the field of accelerator physics. He has held scientific appointments at several national laboratories, including Fermilab, the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory in Texas, Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. He has worked on a large variety of particle accelerator projects and is a frequent instructor at the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS). Mike is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. See his collection at Following The Rules.
	Nathan Zeldes - Jerusalem, Israel. ISRM Advisor Nathan Zeldes is an applied physicist by education, engineer by vocation. He is a globally recognized thought leader in the search for improved knowledge worker productivity. After a 26 year career as a manager and principal engineer at Intel Corporation, he now helps knowledge-based organizations solve core problems at the intersection of information technology and human behavior. Nathan's History of Computing website.
	Robert Henning - Campbell County Rockpile Museum, Gillette Wyoming Colorado-Wyoming Assosiation of Museums representitive.

Articles of Incorporation of the International Slide Rule Museum

Revised January 1, 2024.

The undersigned, a majority of whom are citizens of the United States, desiring to form a Non-Profit Corporation under the Non-Profit Corporation Law of Colorado do hereby certify:

First: The name of the Corporation shall be International Slide Rule Museum dba ISRM.

Second: The place in this state where the principal office of the Corporation is to be located is in the City of Louisville, Colorado, Boulder County.

Third: Said corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes through the ongoing public website(s), including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code, and providing slide rules and books to individuals by gifts or sales through donations, the later used to support the maintenace and growth of the website and to provide storage and documentation of artifacts in the collection.

Fourth: The names and addresses of the persons who are the initial trustees of the corporation are as follows:

Michael V. Konshak, 1944 Quail Cir, Louisville, CO 80027 (Director)
Rebecca A. Konshak, 1944 Quail Cir, Louisville, CO 80027 (Trustee)

Fifth: No part of the net earnings of the corporation shall inure to the benefit of, or be distributable to its trustees, officers, or other private persons, except that the corporation shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered by independent contractors and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in Article Third hereof, including rental storage. No substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall be the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the corporation shall not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office. Notwithstanding any other provision of these articles, the corporation shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on (a) by a corporation exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or (b) by a corporation, contributions to which are deductible under section 170(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

Sixth: Upon the dissolution of the corporation, assets shall be distributed for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or shall be distributed to the federal government, or to a state or local government, for a public purpose. Any such assets not so disposed of shall be disposed of by a Court of Competent Jurisdiction of the county in which the principal office of the corporation is then located, exclusively for such purposes or to such organization or organizations, as said Court shall determine, which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names this day of November 9, 2018 .

Michael V. Konshak, Director

Rebecca A Konshak, Trustee

ISRM Board of Directors, Advisors and Volunteers

Articles of Incorporation of the International Slide Rule Museum

ISRM Board of Directors,
Advisors and Volunteers