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EXHIBIT 10.1

 

 

Ambassadors Group, Inc.

2001 South Flint Road

Spokane, WA 99224

 

July 9, 2012

 

Lane Five Capital Management, LLC

1122 Kenilworth Drive, Suite 313

Towson, Maryland 21204

Attention:  Lisa O’Del Rapuano

 

3K Limited Partnership

20 Custom House Street, Suite 610

Boston, Massachusetts 02110

Attention:  Peter H. Kamin

 

Re:  Amendment to Cooperation Agreement

 

This letter constitutes an amendment (this “Amendment”) to that certain Cooperation Agreement entered into on or about May 7, 2012 (the “Cooperation Agreement”), between Ambassadors Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), on the one hand, and Lane Five Partners LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Fund”), Lane Five Capital Management LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Investment Manager”), Lane Five Capital Management, LLC, a Maryland limited liability company (“IM GP”), Lane Five Partners GP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “General Partner”), Lisa O’Dell Rapuano, a natural person (“Ms. Rapuano” and, together with the Fund, the Investment Manager, IM GP and the General Partner, “Lane Five Parties”), 3K Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership (“3K”) and Peter H. Kamin, a natural person (“Mr. Kamin” and together with 3K, the “Kamin Parties”), on the other hand.  This Amendment will take effect only if, and as of the time, the stockholders of the Company approve at the 2013 Annual Meeting an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation destaggering its Board of Directors.  Absent such approval, this Amendment will be null, void and terminated.

 

1. Section 1 of the Cooperation Agreement is hereby amended by changing the year “2014” in the last sentence of Section 1 to the year “2013”.

 

2. The following sentence shall be added to the end of Section 2:  “The Company shall determine whether it will recommend Ms. Rapuano for election to the Board at the 2013 Annual Meeting in accordance with the same standards and practices that apply to all other Board members being considered for election at such meeting.”

 

3. Except as specifically provided for in this Amendment, all of the terms and conditions of the Cooperation Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

 

4. This Amendment may be executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

 

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If the terms of this Amendment are in accordance with your understandings, please sign and return an executed counterpart of this Amendment, whereupon this Amendment shall constitute a binding agreement among us.

 

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AMBASSADORS GROUP, INC.

 

 

	 By:  	   	 
	 Name: 	 	 
	 Title: 	 	 

 

                                                      

                                                                                                 

 

Accepted and agreed to as of the first date of the first page hereof:

 

LANE FIVE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC

 

By: _____________________                                                               

Name:  __________________                                                              

Title: ____________________                                                                

 

LANE FIVE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP

 

By: ____________________                                                                

Name: __________________                                                            

Title:___________________                                                                

 

LANE FIVE PARTNERS LP

 

By:_____________________                                                                

Name: __________________                                                               

Title: ___________________                                                                

 

LANE FIVE PARTNERS GP LLC

 

By: ____________________                                                              

Name: __________________                                                                

Title: ___________________                                                                

 

Lisa O’Dell Rapuano

 

By:_____________________                                                               

 

Peter H. Kamin

 

By:_____________________                                                               

 

3K LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

 

By: ____________________                                                               

Name: __________________Exhibit 10.2

Form 88 (producers) Rev. 1-83 (Paid-up
                               OIL AND GAS LEASE

Kans. - Okla. - Colo.

THIS AGREEMENT, Entered into this 15_____________day of JANUARY 2012 between
HARRY MARK MILFORD 25605 S. PEACE RD KINGMAN .KS 67068. herein after called
Lessor, and KETA OIL AND GAS INC. 2400 N WOODLAWN ST STE 200 ,WICHITA,KS 67220.
herein after called Lessee, does witness:

1. That Lessor, for and in consideration of the sum of TEN ($10.00) Dollars in
hand paid and of the covenants and agreements hereinafter contained to be
performed by the lessee, has this day granted, leased, and let and by these
presents does hereby grant, lease, and let exclusively unto the Lessee the
hereinafter described land, with any reversionary rights therein, and with the
right to unitize this lease or any part thereof with other oil and gas leases as
to all or any part of the lands covered thereby as hereinafter provided, for the
purpose of carrying on geological, geophysical and other exploratory work
thereon, including core drilling and the drilling, mining, and operating for,
producing and saving all of the oil, gas, gas condensate, gas distillate,
casinghead gasoline and their respective constituent vapors, and all other
gases, found thereon, the exclusive right of injecting water, brine, and other
fluids and substances into the subsurface strata and for constructing roads,
laying pipe lines, building tanks, storing oil, building power stations,
electrical lines and other structures thereon necessary or convenient for the
economical operation of said land alone or conjointly with neighboring lands, to
produce, save, take care of, and manufacture all of such substances, and the
injection of water, brine, and other substances into the subsurface strata, said
tract of land being situated in the County of RENO

State of KANSAS , and described as follows:

E12 NEJ4 OF SECTION 30 T26S- RO8W

Containing 83 acres, more or less, (?eased Premises").

2.This lease shall remain in force for a term of 3 years (called "primary term")
and as long thereafter as oil, gas, casinghead gas, casinghead gasoline or any
of the products covered by this lease is or can be produced.

3.The Lessee shall deliver to Lessor as royalty, free of cost, on the lease, or
into the pipeline to which Lessee may conned its wells the equal one-eighth
(1/8th) part of all oil produced and saved from the leased premises, or at the
Lessee's option may pay to the Lessor for such one-eighth royalty the market
price at the wellhead for oil of like grade and gravity prevailing on the day
such oil is run into the pipeline or into storage tanks.

4.The Lessee shall pay to the Lessor, as a royalty, one-eighth (1/8th) of the
proceeds received by the Lessee at the mouth of the well from the sale of gas,
gas condensate, gas distillate, casinghead gas, gas used for the manufacture of
gasoline or any other product, and all other gases, including their constituent
parts, produced from the land herein leased, less a proportionate part of the
production, severance and other excise taxes, conversation fees, and the costs
incurred by Lessee in processing, gathering, treating, compressing, dehydrating,
transportation, and marketing, or otherwise making such gas or other substances
ready for sale or use. If such gas is not sold by the Lessee, Lessee may pay or
tender annually at or before the end of each yearly period during which such gas
is not sold, as a shut-in royalty, whether one or more wells, an amount equal to
one dollar per net mineral acre, and while said shut in royalty is so paid or
tendered, it will be considered under all provisions of this lease that gas is
being produced in paying quantities. The first yearly period during which such
gas is not sold shall begin on the date the first well is completed for
production of gas 5. This lease is a paid-up lease and may be maintained during
the primary term without further payments or drilling operations.

6.In the event said Lessor owns a lesser interest in the above described land
than the entire and undivided fee simple estate therein then the royalties
herein provided for shall BE paid to said Lessor only in the proportion which
his interest bears to the whole and undivided fee; however, in the event the
title to any interest in said land should revert to Lessor, or his heirs, or his
or their grantee, this lease shall cover such reversion.

7.The Lessee shall have the right to use, free of cost, gas, oil and water found
on said land for its operations thereon, except water from existing wells of the
Lessor. When required by Lessor, the Lessee shall bury its pipe lines below plow
depth and shall pay for damage caused by its operations to growing crops on said
land. No well shall be drilled nearer than 200 feet to the house or barn now on
said premises without written consent of the Lessor. Lessee shall have the right
at any time during, or after the expiration of this lease to remove all
machinery futures, houses, buildings and other structures placed on said
premises, including the right to draw and remove all casing.

8.If the estate of either party hereto is assigned (and the privilege of
assigning in whole or in part is expressly allowed), the covenants hereof shall
extend to the heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, successors. and
assigns, but no change or division in ownership of the land, or royalties,
however accomplished, shall operate to enlarge the obligations or diminish the
rights of Lessee, and no change of ownership in the land or in the royalties or
any sum due under this lease shall be binding on the Lessee until it has been
furnished with either the original recorded instrument of conveyance or a duly
certified copy thereof, or a certified copy of the will of any deceased owner
and of the probate thereof, or certified copy of the proceedings showing
appointment of an administrator for the estate of any deceased owner, whichever
is appropriate, together with all original recorded instruments of conveyance or
duly certified copies thereof necessary in showing a complete chain of title
back to Lessor of the full interest claimed, and all advance payments of rentals
made hereunder before receipt of said documents shall be binding on any direct
or indirect assignee, grantee, devisee, or administrator, executor, or heir of
Lessor.

9. If the leased premises are now or shall hereafter be owned in severalty or in
separate tracts, the premises may nonetheless be developed and operated as one
lease, and all royalties accruing hereunder shall be divided among and paid to
such separate owners in the proportion that the acreage owned by each separate
owner bears to the entire leased acreage. There shall be no obligation on the
part of the Lessee to offset wells on separate tracts into which the land
covered by this lease may now or hereafter be divided by sale, devise, descent
or otherwise, or to furnish separate measuring or receiving tanks.

10.Lessor hereby warrants and agrees to defend the title to the land herein
described and agrees that the Lessee, at its option, may pay and discharge in
whole or in part any taxes, mortgages, or other liens existing, levied, or
assessed on or against the above described lands and, in the event it exercises
such options it shall be subrogated to the rights of any holder or holders
thereof and may reimburse itself by applying to the discharge of any such
mortgage, tax or other lien, any royalty accruing hereunder.

11.If after the expiration of the primary term, production of oil or gas should
cease from any cause, this lease shall not terminate if Lessee commences
additional drilling or reworking operations within one hundred-twenty (120) days
thereafter, or if at the expiration of the primary term, oil or gas is not being
produced on said land, but Lessee is then engaged in drilling or reworking
operations thereon, than in either event, this lease shall remain in force so
long as operations are prosecuted either on the same well or any other well
thereafter commenced, with no cessation of more than one hundred-twenty (120)
consecutive days, and if they result in production of oil or gas, this lease
shall remain in effect so long thereafter as there is production of oil or gas
under any provision of this lease.

12.Lessee may at any time surrender or cancel this lease in whole or in part by
delivering or mailing such release to the Lessor, or by placing same of record
in the proper county. In case said lease is surrendered and canceled as to only
a portion of the acreage covered thereby, then all payments and liabilities
thereafter accruing under the terms of said lease as to the portion canceled
shall cease and
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13.All provisions hereof, express or implied, shall be subject to all federal
and state laws and the orders, rules, or regulations (and interpretations
thereof) of all governmental agencies administering the same, and this lease
shall not be in any way terminated wholly or partially nor shall the Lessee be
liable in damages for failure to comply with any of the express or implied
provisions hereof if such failure accords with any such laws, orders, rules or
regulations (or interpretations thereof). If Lessee should be prevented during
the last six months of the primary term hereof from drilling a well hereunder by
the order of any constituted authority having jurisdiction thereover, the
primary term of this lease shall continue until six months after said order is
suspended.

14.If at the end of the primary term this lease is not otherwise continued in
force under the provisions hereof, Lessor and Lessee hereby agree that Lessee
shall have the option to extend the primary term of this lease for an additional
three (3) years on or before the expiration of the primary term of this lease by
tendering to Lessor a payment equal to the same per acre paid to Lessor under
the original terms of this lease times the net acres actually owned by Lessor
and Lessor's successors (if any) on the date the option is exercised. Payment
shall BE deemed made upon Lessee's tendering of such payment by certified mail
to Lessor at Lessor's address shown on this lease on or before the expiration of
the primary term hereof. Nothing contained herein nor any separate implied
agreement between parties shall serve to bind Lessee to exercise this option and
it shall be at Lessee's sole discretion to do so.

15.If at any time within the primary term of this lease and while the same
remains in force and effect, Lessor receives any bona fide offer, acceptable to
Lessor, to grant additional lease (top lease) covering all or part of the
aforedescibed lands, Lessee shall have the continuing option by meeting any such
offer to acquire such top lease. Any offer must be in writing, and must set
forth the proposed Lessee's name, bonus consideration and royalty consideration
to be paid for such lease, and include a copy of the lease form to be utilized
which form should reflect all pertinent and relevant terms and conditions of the
top lease. Lessee shall have fifteen (15) days after receipt via certified mail,
from Lessor, of a complete copy of any such offer to advise Lessor in writing of
its election to enter into an oil and gas lease with Lessor, based on that
certain proposed Lessee's bona fide offer.

16.Lessee shall have the right, but not the obligation, to pool all or any part
of the Leased Premises or interest therein with any other lands or interests, as
to any or all depths or zones, and as to any or all substances covered by this
Lease, either before or after the commencement of production, whenever Lessee
deems it necessary or proper to do so in order to prudently develop or operate
the Leased Premises, whether or not similar pooling authority exists with
respect to such other lands or interests. The unit formed by such pooling for an
oil well which is not a horizontal completion shall not exceed 160 acres plus a
maximum acreage tolerance of 10%, and for a gas well or a horizontal completion
shall not exceed 640+ acres, plus a maximum acreage tolerance of 10%; provided
that a larger unit may be formed for an oil well or gas well or horizontal
completion to conform to any well spacing or density pattern that may be
prescribed or permitted by any governmental authority having jurisdiction to do
so. For the purpose of the foregoing, the terms "oil well" and "gas well" shah
have the meanings prescribed by applicable law or the appropriate governmental
authority, or, if no definition is so prescribed, "oil weir' means a well with
an initial gas-oil ratio of less than 100,000 cubic feet per barrel and "gas
well" means a well with an initial gas-oil ratio of 100,000 cubic feet or more
per barrel, based on 24-hour production test conducted under normal producing
conditions using standard lease separator facilities or equivalent testing
equipment; and the term "horizontal completion" means a well in which the
horizontal component of the gross completion interval in the reservoir exceeds
the vertical component in the reservoir. In exercising its pooling rights
hereunder, Lessee shall file of record a written declaration describing the unit
and stating the effective date of pooling. Production, drilling or reworking
operations anywhere on a unit which includes all or any part of the Leased
Premises shall be treated as if it were production, drilling or reworking
operations on the Leased Premises. except that the production on which Lessor's
royalty is calculated shall be that proportion of the total unit production
which the net a c.-eage covered by this lease and included in the unit bears to
the total gross acreage in the unit, but only to the extent such proportion of
unit Producoon is sold by Lessee. Pooling in one or more instances shall not
exhaust Lessee's pooling rights hereunder, and Lessee shall have the recurring
right but not the obligation to revise any unit formed hereunder by expansion or
contraction or both, either before or after commencernerrt of production, in
order to conform to the well spacing or density pattern prescribed or permitted
by the governmental authority having jurisdiction, or to conform to any
productive acreage determination made by such governmental authority or as
otherwise provided for in this lease and is deemed advisable by Lessee. In
making such a revision, Lessee shall file of record a written declaration
describing the revised unit and stating the effective date of revision. To the
extent any portion of the Leased Premises is included in or excluded from the
unit by virtue of such revision, the proportion of unit production on which
royalties are payable hereunder shall thereafter be adjusted accordingly. In the
absence of production in paying quantities from a unit, upon permanent cessation
thereof, Lessee may terminate the unit by filing of record a written declaration
describing the unit and stating the date of termination. Pooling hereunder shall
not constitute a cross-conveyance of interests.

17.This lease and all its terms, conditions, and stipulations shall extend to
and be binding on all successors of said Lessor and Lessee.

18.It is the intent of the Lessor to lease, and Lessor does hereby grant,
demise, lease and let unto LESSEE, all oil, gas and other minerals owned by
Lessor in Section E/2 NE/4 OF SECTION 30 T26S- RO8W ,RENO County, Kansas whether
or not properly and completely described herein. In the event it is determined
that Lessor actually owns more net mineral acres than that assumed by the
parties in the calculation of lease bonus and paid by Lessee, Lessor and Lessee
agree that Lessee shall pay Lessor for such additional net acreage at the same
bonus price per acre agreed upon for the execution of this oil and gas lease.
Likewise, in the event it is determined that Lessor owns less net acres, or it
is determined that Lessor's acreage is currently leased under a prior oil and
gas lease, then the Lessor agrees to reimburse Lessee for the bonus per acre
paid for the acreage not owned by Lessor or under the prior oil and gas lease_

IN TESTIMONEY WHEREOF, we sign on the day and year first above written.

                                             /s/
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STATE OF KANSAS                      }          (ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR INDIVIDUAL)
COUNTY OF RENO                       } SS.

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on this 24th day of January,
2012.

by
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My Commission expires:

June 16th, 2012                              /s/
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Commission Number                            Notary Public

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