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BOILERPLATESummer 2018 Iron & Steel Hall of Fame Debuts Pr esident ’s Messag e Board of Directors One crucial part of our mission at • On-site visits – Scott G. Huston President NISHM is to educate the public on guided tours and Peter Nunn America’s iron and steel making exhibits Vice President/ Treasurer past. Education does not just take William T. Keen, Esq. • Events and Secretary place in the classroom, but also programs – lectures, Gregory M. Cary at places like museums, zoos, and bus trips, and more Albert J. Giannantonio nature preserves. Learning does Scott G. Huston Charles L. Huston III not occur with just conversation • Digital media – website, email, Harry Lewis between teacher and pupil, but also Facebook and Twitter pages, Mary Ann Rossi, Esq. YouTube channel Martha Skiadas with various media, both printed and digital types. • Print media – brochures, Executive Director James D. Ziegler Museums have a “media mix,” or newsletter, and publications Executive Director a variety of media that they use to There are plenty and a variety of Advisors interpret their site and also share options for you to learn more about Harold Skramstad their message with the community. what the museum does and about Museum Advisor Types of media can include printed Peter Saylor America’s steel heritage. If you Architectural Advisor brochures, on-site exhibits and have any questions about visiting Eugene L. DiOrio interpretive panels, living history, Historical Advisor or learning more, please contact guided tours, self-guiding audio our Educational Services Manager, devices and more. LeAnne Zolovich, at education@ Our Mission To learn at NISHM, you can use: steelmuseum.org. The National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum is a not-for- profit educational Executive Dir ector’s R eport institution whose The history of Terracina, into a lovely picturesque mission is to promote iron and steel is home of Rebecca Lukens’ family. an understanding full of remarkable of the iron and Coatesville Youth Initiative Summer innovations. The steel history of Interns Jaylin Butler and Ariel Abbot Coatesville, Chester Inductees to County, Southeastern spent the summer helping us the Iron & Steel Pennsylvania and the accession and organize collections region to audiences Hall of Fame Jim Ziegler and worked diligently on an of all ages and are inventors, interests by collecting, interview video about the return engineers, investors and owners. preserving, exhibiting of the World Trade Center steel and interpreting iron Please visit us to learn more. and steel’s history tridents to Coatesville. and its relationship to The 2018 Rebecca Lukens Award Primitive Hall was built by Joseph the region and nation Recipient, Janet Klein, is a noted beyond. Pennock, an ancestor of Rebecca historic preservationist, well known Lukens. We will be providing Front Cover: in many historic arenas, whose NISHM’s newest educational tours of Primitive Hall. advice was instrumental in turning exhibit, the Iron & We hope you will join us. Steel Hall of Fame, our c. 1850 Victorian mansion, highlights individuals who made a strong The National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum is a project of the Graystone Society, a 501(c)3 and lasting impact on public charity registered with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Charitable Organizations. 1 the steel industry. Contributions are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. EXHIBITS A B C D E F G Ir on & Steel Hall Of Fame Pr emiers Steel is a crucial part of our lives today. We global influence, from the industry’s beginning cannot live our lives without steel, it is almost to the present day. everywhere we look: our skyscrapers, the From America’s first ironmaster, to the cars we drive in and bridges we drive across, inventor of a modern steelmaking process, protecting and cooking the food we eat, to chief organizers of United States Steel serving in national defense, and elsewhere. Corporation, to the present CEO of the The history of iron and steel is long – world’s largest steel and mining company… thousands of years. It is rich – full of the Iron & Steel Hall of Fame includes men amazing discoveries, life-changing inventions, and women that changed the iron and steel important decisions, and keen individuals. industry forever. What are those discoveries, inventions, and Each year, NISHM plans to induct a new decisions? Who are the individuals that made individual into the Hall of Fame. Would you them? Who and what influenced the steel like to nominate someone? Please send us industry enough to change it? the name, biographical information, and The Iron & Steel Hall of Fame reveals a reason why he or she should be inducted. number of inventors, engineers, investors, This exhibit is only on display through owners, and others whose actions had great September… so please stop by and see it impact upon the iron and steel industry. soon! These individuals had either state, national, or 2 EXHIBITS Ir on & Steel Hall Of Fame Pr emiers (Continued) The first class of the Hall of Fame includes: Andrew Carnegie (A) August Thyssen, (B) Guy Dolle (C) Henry Cort (D) “The Signers” (E) H I J Charles Carroll Stephen Hopkins Philip Livingston George Ross James Smith George Taylor James Wilson Krupp Family Friedrich Krupp* Alfred Krupp* Friedrich Alfred Krupp (F) Henry Bessemer (G) K L M Henry Clay Frick (H) Elbert Henry Gary (I) John Pierpont Morgan (J) Rebecca Lukens (K) Charles Schwab (L) Wilbur Ross (M) William Siemens (N) Lakshmi Mittal (O) William Kelly (P) John Potts Sr.* Thomas Potts* John Winthrop Jr.* N O P * No Image Available 3 PROGRAMS R ebecca Lukens Award Pr esented To Janet Klein On May 31st, NISHM presented the twelfth annual Rebecca Lukens Award to Ms. Janet Klein. This award is presented to an individual in the local community that demonstrates the same characteristics of our nation’s first female industrialist, Rebecca Lukens: courage, resilience, leadership, and strategic outlook. A native of Philadelphia, Ms. Klein is a noted historic preservationist and museum management consultant. She is known in many, many historic arenas, including 3 Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Former award recipients, museum board members, organizations and was instrumental and event attendees enjoyed an evening of social in turning our Terracina into a interaction, honoring the 2018 Rebecca Lukens historic house museum. Award recipient, Mrs. Janet Klein (yellow dress). 4 COLLECTIONS Coleman Ir on Site Maps Added To Collection Robert Coleman (November 4, 1748 - August 14, 1825) was an Irish- American industrialist who rose from holding clerkship at a prothonotary’s office in Philadelphia to bookkeeper at Cornwall Iron Furnace to becoming one Pennsylvania’s first millionaires. Thanks to the recent donation of Coleman iron site maps by Joseph and Lindsey DuBarry (Joe is a Coleman family descendant), NISHM now has maps depicting iron sites that supplied bar iron to Brandywine Iron Works, predecessor to Lukens Steel Company. These maps will be on display for a short time. G r utz k a Art Displayed at the Hill School Paintings by the late Klaus Grutzka were a part of the exhibit “Pennsylvania Made of Steel” at The Hill School Center for the Arts in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. This exhibit combined paintings by Grutzka with steel sculptures by Pennsylvania artists Karen Delaney, David Haines and Katee Boyle. The Grutzka paintings featured images of Lukens Steel, A librarian at The Hill School recently Phoenix Steel and Bethlehem Steel. The 28 works discovered a number of sketches, displayed the artist’s passion for capturing images of like this sketch of a submarine, done by Klaus Grutzka during Pennsylvania steel mills. For Klaus Grutzka, the exhibit World War II. The school generously was something of a homecoming, having served as an donated the sketches to NISHM to instructor of Fine Arts and artist-in-residence at The Hill add to our Grutzka collection. 5 School from 1982 through 1988. MEET THE MUSEUM Summer Inter ns G eoff Roehrs Say hello and goodbye to our Summer 2018 It is with great sadness that we announce Coatesville Youth Initiative ServiceCorps the passing of long-time Graystone Society interns! Jaylin Butler and Ariel Abbot spent Board member Geoffrey Carter Roehrs, the summer helping us accession and age 71, of Unionville, who died peacefully at organize collections. They also worked home on July 14, 2018, after a brief battle diligently on an interview video about the with cancer. return of the World Trade Center steel After joining the family insurance business, tridents to Coatesville. Geoff launched his own agency where he Jaylin is entering the 11th grade and his worked until his death. He is survived by his hobbies include hanging out with friends and companion and wife of 28 years, Jill Bowen listening to his favorite music. This summer, Roehrs. he enjoyed learning about the rich history of Geoff was a direct decendent of A.F. Coatesville. Huston, grandson of Rebecca Lukens, and Ariel is entering the 9th grade and she President of Lukens Iron & Steel Co. He also aspires to work in an art or technology served on our Business/Finance Committee related field. This summer, she enjoyed where his business acumen will be missed. learning new things, such as video editing Geoff was a pleasure to work with and and Coatesville’s history with the steel enjoyable to talk to because he often had industry. an interesting story to tell, a contagious We wish Jaylin and Ariel well in their futures! smile, and was always a gentleman. 6 PROPERTY 12 0” Mill Complex Update G ar den Wor k The former steel making buildings NISHM Shown above is a garden section around acquired in 2016, are now part of our the Lukens Executive Office Building. guided tours! The foliage had been trimmed back.