Article: Showstopper: Alberta Bair Theater receives $1M donation for endowment

Article: Alberta Bair meant what she wrote, attorney says
The Billings Gazette;  June 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Alberta Bair intended that her "trust ... of the proceeds of the Bair trust. In a 36-page response ... Baugh ruled in March that Alberta Bair's trust document was ... longtime friends of Alberta Bair and residents of Meagher ...

Article: Alberta Bair meant what she said, judge says
The Billings Gazette;  March 8, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Alberta Bair's trust document is clear in its meaning ... Todd Baugh. State's argument "Alberta Bair did not create an ambiguity by providing ... the Bair Museum, longtime friends of Alberta Bair and residents of Meagher and Wheatland ...

Article: Gift lifts Alberta Bair Theater free of debt
The Billings Gazette;  January 6, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... the board of directors of the Alberta Bair Theater announced Monday they are ... volunteer basis, segued to the Alberta Bair Theater effort with help from the late rancher-philanthropist Alberta Bair. Her major gift in the $5.6 ...

Article: Bair trust dealing with effect of ruling
The Billings Gazette;  May 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... will take priority over all other charities funded by the Bair trust, she said. The new board will have to decide what to do ... John Crist, an attorney for US Bank Trust, trustee for the Bair Trust, said there has already been quite a bit of discussion about ...

Article: Bair trust standing by its contracts
The Billings Gazette;  May 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ...A Montana Supreme Court ruling that ordered the Charles M. Bair Family Trust to give funding priority to a museum at the family ranch near Martinsdale will not immediately affect nonprofit organizations that already have commitments from the trust. John Crist, attorney for the trust, said Tuesday

Article: Board erred in closing Bair museum, high court rules
The Billings Gazette;  April 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... justices ordered the Bair Trust's trustee to replace ... Bair's daughter, Alberta Bair. According to the ... purposes. At the time of Alberta Bair's death, the trust ... discretionary - that the Alberta Bair Trust had clearly said that ...

Article: Trustees opt to shut down Bair family museum
The Billings Gazette;  February 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... said at a news conference held at the Alberta Bair Theater. Roscoe said the board plans ... outlined in the trust agreement left by Alberta Bair, who died in 1993 at the age of 97. Roscoe said Alberta Bair wanted the museum in Martinsdale to ...