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2017 Officers Minutes from the February 13, 2017 Meeting Chair: Aashi Mital Museums and Historic Sites of Greater Cincinnati [email protected] Vice-Chair: Host: Terrace Park Historic Society Adam Wanter [email protected] Attendees: Craig Niemi, Cincinnati Observatory; Kathryn Gibbons, Harriet Treasurer: Beecher Stowe House; Terrie Puckett, Grailville; Steve Preston, Heritage Village Ed Creighton [email protected] Museum; Bill Dichtl, Heritage Village Museum; Betsy Kruthoffer, Lloyd Library; Ed Secretary: Creighton, FWWS & Gov. Bebb; Kathy Creighton, Butler County Historical Craig Niemi Society; Susan Rodgers, Terrace Park Historical Society; Aashi Mital, Pivotal craig@ cincinnatiobservatory.org Solutions; Adam Wanter, MidPointe Library System; Cora Arney, Delhi Historical Society / Betts House; Louis Trent, Anderson Township Historical Society; Linda Committees: Magee, Anderson Township Historical Society; Caitlin Tracey-Miller, Cincinnati Art Member’s Aashi Mital-Chair Museum; Jim Dempesy, Hamilton County Genealogy Society Adam Wanter Bill Dicthl Treasurer’s Report: Ed Creighton reported MHS has a balance of $1,908.71. wdichtl@ heritagevillagecincinnati.org $65.00 was paid for a two year OLHA membership. Betsy Kruthoffer BetsyKruthoffer@ OLHA Region 8 Represeantives: Terri Puckett & Ed Creighton lloydlibrary.org OLHA is looking for judges for History Day on 3/18. “Ohio Open Doors” is every Susan Rogers [email protected] two years (next 2018). OLHA is supporting programs for under-served audiences. Education/Outreach: www.ohiolha.org Craig Niemi-Chair Linda Magee [email protected] 3/1/2017 is the deadline for the Ohio Local History Alliance web calendar. Send Steve Preston your event info (100 words or less) to Ed, Terrie or directly to Nancy Yerian at spreston@ heritagevillagecincinnati.org [email protected] with “Event Listing” in the subject line. Ed Creigton [email protected] OLHA Region 8 meeting is Saturday 3/25 at Butler County Historical Society. Special Events: Aashi is looking for someone to staff the MHS info table during the conference. tbc Marketing: Aashi Mital-Chair Committee Reports: Craig Niemi Dana Gagnon WWI-Adam Wanter CommunityOutreach@ If you are having a WWI event; exhibit, speaker, online exhibit, etc, send the details heritagevillagecincinnati.org Cari Hillman to Adam so they can be forwarded to the Marketing Committee. [email protected] Nominating: Marketing Committee is working on building contact lists of historic sites, media tbc Bylaws: contacts, K-12 teachers, university and other history contacts. Kathy Creighton has Kathy Creighton developed a list of teachers she can share. [email protected] Betsy Kruthoffer Members Committee is meeting Tuesday 2/14 10am at the Observatory A Craig Niemi Adhoc: WWI member survey will be sent in a couple of days. Please return your surveys to Aashi. Adam Wanter Next monthly meeting is Monday 3/13/17 10am at Mid-Pointe Library in West Kathy Creighton Kathryn Gibbons Chester. Bill Dicthl 02/13/2017 MHS Minutes page 1 MHS is co-hosting a social mixer on Monday December 11, 21017 6-9pm at the Observatory. Networking opportunity with other local collaborations.

Renewal invoices and receipts have been sent out.

Old Business:

Kathy Creighton (Butler County) is the current keeper of the MHS display banner.

Aashi will be sending announcements for the World War I Adhoc Committee and Marketing Committee meetings.

Website updates continue. Susan Rogers needs photos of your site with captions. Site content needs updating. Send you input to Susan at Lila Avenue Website Services. [email protected]. 513-418-1580

New Business:

MHS leadership has been meeting to review goals and strategic plans for 2017-2018.

Budget: Aashi proposed setting a budget for each committee to allow the committees to function for efficiently.

Marketing Committee $100, with extra funds to be allocated as needed by vote. Motion made by Linda Magee, 2nd Kathy Creighton, OK’d

Membership Committee: $200.00 for speaker honorariums, new members recruitment letters, etc Motion made by Adam Wanter, 2nd Kathy Creighton, OK’d

Education Committee: $100 Motion made by Adam Wanter, 2nd Kathy Creighton, OK’d

Discussions/ News:

2017 is a rebuilding year for the organization. Putting in place budgets, policies and procedures so the monthly meetings are more focused on professional development and the committees and do their work efficiently. Goals is to host 1 or 2 events in 2017 and organizationally be ready for 2018.

Member Events: Be sure to submit your events to Aashi for social media promotion and Susan Rogers to have them posted on the MHS website calendar.

Presentation: Caitlin Tracey-Miller, Visitor Research Coordinator at the Cincinnati Art Museum, will be our guest speaker. She gave us an overview of data collection, analysis and why it is important to organizations of all sizes.

02/13/2017 MHS Minutes page 2 Committee list was passed around: The Committees need your participation! Please consider serving on one or more committees.

Membership: Aashi Mital, Adam Wanter, Bill Dicthl, Betsy Kruthhoffer, Susan Rogers, Craig Niemi

Education: Craig Niemi, Ed Creighton, Linda Magee, Steve Preston,

Marketing: Dana Gagnon

By-laws: Betsy Kruthoffer, Craig Niemi, Ed Creighton

Nominating: tbc

WWI (ad hoc): Bill Dicthl, Adam Wanter, Kathy Creighton, Kathy Gibbons

Next meeting: Monday, March, 13 2017, 10:00am-11:45 at The Midpointe Library Community Room C 9363 Centre Pointe Drive West Chester, OH 45069 513-777-3131 www.midpointelibrary.org/page/westchester

Respectfully submitted Craig Niemi

If any members want information distributed across our social media, please email Aashi Mital at [email protected] at their earliest convenience. Is your site interested in hosting our monthly members meeting? Email Aashi Mital [email protected]. Have any suggestions or ideas for our professional development? [email protected]. Know any local historic sites or museums that would benefit from being a member of MHS or would like to attend a meeting, email Adam Wanter at [email protected].

The Listserv is our primary means of communications with MHS members.

How to Join the MHS Listserv Visit http://www.freelists.org/list/mhsgreatercinci Under User Options: Enter YOUR email address in the space provided. Choose an Action: Subscribe Click “Go!” You should receive a confirmation email immediately after registering. 02/13/2017 MHS Minutes page 3 Current & Recent MHS Members: TBC MHS Committees: American Sign Museum Education / Outreach. The Education / Outreach Anderson Township Historical Society/Miller- Committee shall work with the members of the Leuser Log House Consortium to provide guidelines and speakers for The Betts House multi-disciplinary (STEM, language arts, etc.) Social The Butler County Historical Society Studies state standard aligned programs for schools and The Center for Holocaust and Humanity educators in the Greater Cincinnati Area and to promote Education our members to the overall local history community. Chrisholm Historic Farmstead The Christian Waldschmidt Homestead and Special Events Sub-Committee. The Special Events Civil War Museum/Ohio Society DAR Committee shall be responsible for planning and Cincinnati Music Hall/Society for the directing public events hosted by this Consortium. Preservation of Music Hall Member’s The Member’s Committee shall make The Cincinnati Observatory arrangements for upcoming meetings and work with the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum other committees in obtaining programs, speakers and Cincinnati Triple Steam professional development opportunities for the Clermont County Historical Society Consortium. And work with the Vice-Chair to promote Delhi Historical Society/Farmhouse Museum membership in the consortium. Dinsmore Homestead Marketing. The Marketing Committee is responsible Fairfield Historical Society/Elisha Morgan for effectively promoting the Consortium to all Farm Mansion audiences that would be interested in its mission and German Heritage Museum German-American programs. This includes, but is not limited to, the Citizens League general public, Pre-K-16 students, educators, media Glendale Heritage Preservation outlets and policy makers. The Social Media Sub- Governor Bebb Preserve Pioneer Group Committee shall be responsible for maintaining the Grailville website and all social media venues associated with the Harriet Beecher Stowe House Consortium and will post events and programs for Heritage Village Museum/Historic Southwest members of the Consortium. Ohio, Inc. Nominating. A standing Nominating Committee of at Lloyd Library and Museum least three (3) members shall be appointed at the August McGuffey Museum meeting. They shall present their proposed slate of Mid-Pointe Library System officers at the November meeting. Morgan Township Historical Society Mt. Healthy Historical Society By-Laws. A standing By-Laws Committee shall be Oxford Museum Association formed in odd-number years to review the By-Laws and Over-The-Rhine Museum make any recommended changes to the membership by Pivotal Solutions the October meeting. The Chairperson shall be the chair Reily Township Historical Society of this committee. Terrace Park Historical Society Warren County Historical Society White Water Shaker Village William Howard Taft National Historic Site

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