Campaign Chairman Hugh Golson (far right) presents $1,000 donation to Foundation Chairman Remer K. Pendergraph while supporters look on. The W.W. Law Foundation Board of Directors, archivists, voluteers and fundraising campaign chairman Hugh Golson are in the midst of exciting and dramatic changes as they prepare to launch their first fundraising campaign, "Savannah's Law: A Community Saves Its Treasures." The fundraising campaign kicked off on July 29, 2008 with a reception and a tour at the Foundation's headquarters at 226 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. at 6p.m. to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the death of Westley Wallace Law. Funds are being raised to ensure completion of the processing and archiving of the civil rights, historic preserva- tion and low country, papers, photographs, books, music, and artwork of W.W. Law during the next two years.

Planned use of computer and internet technology to allow access to parts of the collection, in realtime, while it is still being processed, is the reason for the excitement in their midst. In addition to the photographic collection, parts of the book, art, music and some documents like correspondence between Law and Ray Charles, Senator Edward Kennedy, Langston Hughes and Roy Wilkins will be accessible on line. "In a nutshell, technology has expanded the ways collections can be made accessible to the public," said Foundation Chairman Remer K. Pendergraph.

The W.W. Law Archival Retrieval System at www.wwlawfoundat ioin.org and other sites will be used to make instructive elements of this important collection available online.

The W.W. Law Foundation was founded in 2003 to raise funds to maintain the collection, advance research, provide educational resources and create a collection repository that will draw regional, national and international attention.

For more information contact Remer Pendergraph at 912-604- 2404 or Hugh Golson at 912-234-1250.