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VAM News
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Margo Carlock
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Margo Carlock, who has been with VAM for 20 years, has accepted the position of executive director for the National Association for Interpretation, based in Ft. Collins, Colorado. We wish Margo all the best in this new adventure!
Join us in welcoming Eric App, Tricia Brooks, Charles Grant, Tramia Jackson, and Lisa Martin to Council. Norman Burns, Anna Holloway, and Melanie Mathewes are elected to new roles on Council. Read the full press release.
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Joseph A. Gutierrez, Jr.
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Creation of the Joseph A. Gutierrez, Jr. Memorial Fund Announced at Annual Conference.
Upcoming from VAM:
April 17th, Washington and Lee University, Lexington
May 1st, National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico
June 5th, Hampton University Museum, Hampton
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Deadlines
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May 23, 2013
August 14, 2013
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Member Kudos
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VAM Council member Barbara Rothermel recently earned her PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. The degree was awarded January 2013. Barbara's dissertation is entitled The University Art Museum and Interdisciplinary Faculty Collaboration. She is just the second person in the US to receive the PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. Rothermel is the director of the Daura Gallery at Lynchburg College. Congratulations Barbara! Way to go!
The Virginia Living Museum has received $150,000 from Dominion Virginia Power's charitable foundation. The Dominion Foundation grant makes it possible for the museum to have one of the largest non-profit solar installations in Hampton Roads. The museum is installing 165 solar panels (a 46.2KW solar system) on its south facing roof. The solar system will produce more than 4900 kWh of electricity per month (58,853kWh per year), enough to fully power more than six U.S. homes. The system is expected to save the museum more than $5,000 in electricity costs in the first year alone!
Patrick Henry's Red Hill is very excited to announce that their 2008 Red Hill Reserve Cabernet Franc won a gold medal at the 2013 Governor's Cup� Competition. A year and a half ago, Patrick Henry's Red Hill began to carry the Red Hill Wine Collection. The Collection includes the Red Hill Reserve, Red Hill Chardonnay, Red Hill Revolution, and Red Hill Traminette. Award winning vintner Michael Shaps of Virginia Wineworks custom made the Red Hill Wine Collection.
The Road to Revolution Heritage Trail was officially launched with a press conference at the Virginia General Assembly Building on February 14, 2013. The trail, originally comprising Patrick Henry-related sites, has now been expanded to cover 20 sites in Virginia. The trail program includes a brochure, website, and highway markers and site interpretive signs. The program is being handled by the Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau and is being modeled on another one of its very successful programs, The Civil War Trails.
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Member News
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Former Virginia Historical Society (VHS) trustee and long-time supporter Hugh Vernon White, Jr., passed away in August 2012. To honor his memory, the law firm, Hunton & Williams LLP and a number of its present and former partners are establishing the Hugh V. White, Jr., Outreach Education Fund. Hunton & Williams has invited others to join them in this effort. Income from the fund will support history education outreach programs to school systems, educators, and other student groups across Virginia who may not be able to travel to the VHS for programming. Outreach programs include VHS educator site-visits; interactive video conferencing or other technology-based programming; teacher training and recertification classes; VHS-sponsored lectures, conferences, and symposia held at off-site locations; and traveling exhibitions.
The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present their highest honors, the 2013 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in architecture, law and citizen leadership, to, respectively: Laurie Olin, a distinguished professor, author and renowned landscape architect whose designs include the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington, D.C. and Bryant Park in New York City. Robert S. Mueller III, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who has led the bureau's post-9/11 transformation. Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach For America, which has inspired more than 38,000 top recent college graduates and young professionals to join the movement to ensure educational opportunity for all. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals recognize the achievements of those who embrace endeavors in which Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third U.S. president, excelled and held in high regard. To celebrate the Executive Mansion's 200th anniversary, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and First Lady Maureen McDonnell declared 2013 the commonwealth's "Year of the Historic Home." In honor of this monumental occasion, Richmond's most renowned historic homes and museums collaborated to open their doors admission-free to the public. For this first-of-its-kind promotion, seven participating sites-Agecroft Hall, the John Marshall House, the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Virginia House, the White House of the Confederacy, Wickham House, and the Wilton House Museum-offered complimentary admission to visitors who have a printed Time Traveler Passport from the Year of the Virginia Historic Home website.
On March 26th, three representatives from The Woman's Club of Petersburg traveled to the Virginia Historical Society (VHS) in Richmond to deliver two medium-sized plastic boxes. The containers held more than 100 items dating back as early as 1917 that document meetings, activities, and leaders of the one-hundred-and-sixty-year-old organization. "Until now, the organization's records have bounced from house to house as presidents changed," said the club president, Kay Freeman. "We are an aging club. We didn't want all of the history and documents of the group to get lost in someone's attic or basement."
From the Waterford Foundation: Eagle Scout candidate Brandon Morris has completed a project on the Phillips Farm Trail, adding two sturdy benches, stepping stones, planks, and steps where the trail crosses the creek. The benches, one at the dam and one near the halfway point on the trail, provide sturdy seats at choice views for bird and wildlife watching, or just a quiet spot to read a book.
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Hails and Farewells
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Karen Gorham, executive vice president, is saying farewell after 12 years at Patrick Henry's Red Hill in Charlotte County, where she started as associate curator. She is moving up the road to Charlottesville but isn't ready to look for a job just yet; she is getting married and her honeymoon is taking her to Paris for June. Best of luck, Karen! The Montpelier Foundation announced the appointment of Katherine L. "Kat" Imhoff as president effective January 1, 2013. Imhoff returned to Virginia after a successful five-year tenure as state director for The Nature Conservancy in Montana, where she led the organization's Montana Legacy Project - the purchase of more than 300,000 acres for nearly $500 million - representing the largest conservation project ever undertaken by The Nature Conservancy. "Montpelier is a place for making authentic, tangible connections with the past that can inspire us to build on James Madison's legacy of constitutional self-government," said Gregory May, chairman of The Montpelier Foundation. "Kat Imhoff is a respected preservationist with demonstrated ability to generate support for visionary advances like those Montpelier now is prepared to undertake." The Virginia Historical Society (VHS) welcomes five new trustees who will serve through 2018: Charles L. Cabell; Cordel L. Faulk; William H. Fralin, Jr.; George C. Freeman III; and William C. Wooldridge. A private nonprofit organization, the VHS is a history museum and research library committed to connecting people to America's past through the unparalleled story of Virginia. The VHS board is made up of twenty-one trustees, six honorary vice chairmen, and one regional vice chairman.
The Mariners' Museum has named Elliot Gruber as its new president and CEO. Gruber comes to The Mariners' following two high-profile assignments on the national stage. Most recently, he was senior vice president of resource development for the United Way of the National Capital Area. Prior to that, he was vice president and COO for the Gettysburg Foundation. "The Museum is fortunate to secure a president with such a track record of success on a national level," said John R. Lawson II, chairman of The Mariners' Museum's Board of Trustees. "Elliot Gruber not only has a strong history of high-level donor relations, but also is the right person to harness our personnel resources, leading us along the path of a Museum that will remain relevant into the 21st Century."
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April 18-19 in Baltimore, MD.
Copyright Basics and Beyond, presented by the Registrars Committee of MAAM
APRIL 19, 2013 / $40 MAAM member / $60 non-member
Copyright Hearing Room, Madison Building, Library of Congress
Independence Avenue, between 1st and 2nd Streets SE
Museum Trustee Association Event
Trustee/Director Forum
Detroit Institute of Arts, May 17, 2013
Conservation at Menokin: CARPENTRY WORKSHOP
October 12 - 13, 2013
Martin Kirwan King Conservation and Visitor's Center
4037 Menokin Road l Warsaw, VA 22572
The 2013 Environmental Education Conference will be October 16 - 18 at Shrine Mont in Orkney Springs, VA. Additional info. TBA.
edUi 2013, a conference for web professionals serving colleges, universities, libraries, museums, and beyond, will take place November 4 - 6 in Richmond, VA. Session proposals are due May 3rd.
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More Virginia and National Museum News
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The Mariners' Museum made international news recently when two sailors from the USS Monitor, whose remains were discovered in 2002, were finally laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. See a listing of news coverage here.
Preservation Virginia is gearing up for their 2013 announcement of Virginia's Most Endangered Historic Sites. Read about the program here, and stay tuned for the announcement in May!
Thanks to Max A. van Balgooy for sharing his thoughts on the VAM conference in his blog, Engaging Places.
The Williamsburg Hospitality House is closing its doors on May 31st. The College of William & Mary has purchased the hotel and they will be transitioning the building from its current state to student housing over the summer. Their plan includes prepping the facility over the summer, and reopening the facility to welcome their students in the fall of 2013.
Congress' recent wrap-up of the Fiscal Year appropriation bills will result in decreased federal support for museums in the coming months. Many of the agencies and programs that support museums, including the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and several others. Along with many other advocacy efforts on behalf of the Alliance, Congressman Paul Tonko and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will circulate letters of support for the IMLS Office of Museum Services. Be prepared to hear from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) when the time comes to urge your legislators to sign these letters. Recently, the House of Representatives also approved a budget resolution, which calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and questions whether museum funding through IMLS is a national priority. "Although this deeply misguided language has been included in prior House budgets, it is as disturbing today as ever," said Alliance President Ford W. Bell. "Museums are core educational institutions, economic engines, and community anchors, and these statements profoundly mistake their essential role in serving our diverse public." Learn more about the Alliance's advocacy for museums.
The yeoman planter's cottage, Pear Valley, owned and managed by Preservation Virginia was recently named a National Historic Landmark. Secretary of the Interior, Kenneth Salazar, made the announcement on Monday, March 11, 2013.
From AASLH: As most of the history field knows, in September of 2011 AASLH discovered alarming financial irregularities. Further investigation revealed that AASLH's former 20-year Director of Finance, Risa Woodward, and her husband committed fraud against AASLH. Charges were filed by the Office of the District Attorney General in Nashville, TN. On Thursday, March 7, 2013, the Woodwards accepted a plea bargain. Risa was found guilty of two B felonies, two C felonies, and two D felonies including theft, fradulent use of credit cards, identity theft, and forgery. Jim Woodward was found guilty of four felonies of fraudulent use of credit cards. Jim Woodward was given a 10 year suspended sentence with 10 years of supervised probation and restitution to AASLH of $26,848.32. Risa Woodward will be sentenced on April 24, 2013, with charges carrying between 8 and 44 years. Defendant convictions are not final for 30 days. Terry Davis, President & CEO of AASLH, will testify at the sentencing hearing.
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