A regular reader from Texas writes: “My Dad retired from Chevron in 1990. At the time of
\nhis retirement, he was quite high on the Chevron management food chain. I asked him about your
\narticle regarding Chevron-Texaco’s failure to fund the Met broadcasts next year. Dad observes as
\nfollows:<\/P>
\n
“1. Chevron-Texaco is not the same company he worked for. There have been a couple of
\nturnovers in the upper management and, although some of the men running things worked under
\nhim at one time, it was not under circumstances that would enable him to judge their priorities
\nregarding corporate support of the arts.<\/P>
\n
“2. The whole area of corporate sponsorships is non-core<\/I> and very minor. It simply “3. Chevron was always sensitive about its image. There is no reason to believe that A regular reader from Texas writes: “My Dad retired from Chevron in 1990. At the time of his retirement, he was quite high on the Chevron management food chain. I asked him about your article regarding Chevron-Texaco’s failure to fund the Met broadcasts next year. Dad observes as follows: “1. Chevron-Texaco is not the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndoesn’t receive much attention from upper management. If you will take a look at
\nReport<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, you will get a feel for the scope of the community
\ninvolvement projects funded by the company. Some of the stuff simply gets lost in the
\nshuffle.<\/P>
\n
\nsensitivity vanished with the purchase of Texaco. Perhaps one could contact the Vice Chairman
\nwhose portfolio includes corporate sponsorships and persuade him or her to reinstate the funding.
\nAs you observed, the total amount is really quite small and its reinstatement would probably cost
\nless than rounding errors in the annual report.”<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"