Awards Committee & Field Reviewers: Kim Sheahan, Chairperson Kate Schureman Jeanne Schultz Angel Field Reviewers: Jack Thomas Paul Marty Barbara Oehlschlaeger-Garvey Valerie Hall Kaitlyn Riopelle Susan Voskuil Elizabeth Watkins Mark Hanson Cricket Brooks Awards Barbara Becker Kris Nesbit Dianne Hanau-Strain Ceremony Rick Riccio Program Thank You to Our Sponsors! 6 – 7 p.m. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with music by LambiK 7 p.m. Dinner 7:30 p.m. Awards program

Daniel J. Wykes

Tour Sites Host Museums Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum Laurent House Discovery Center Museum Wednesday, October 22, 2014 Ethnic Heritage Museum Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens Rockford Art Museum Anderson Japanese Gardens Veterans Memorial Hall Burpee Museum of Natural History Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden Midway Village Museum Award Winners:

Individual Awards of Distinction Best Practices Awards David Becker...... Professional of the Year Educational Programs Joe Sosnowski...... Policy Maker of the Year Dickson Mounds: Tot Time...... Award. of Merit Brittany Contratto...... Graduate Student of the Year Promotional/Informational Materials Alison Balcanoff Bastian ...... Graduate Student of the Year DuPage County Historical Museum: In Vogue . . & Out...... Award of Excellence Individual Service Award DuPage County Historical Museum: Annual Report...... Award. of Merit Gail Zahm...... Silver Service Award - Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum Collections Conservation Anniversary Awards Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum: Letter Restoration...... Award of Excellence Kline Creek Farm...... Silver Award Special Projects Vermilion County Museum Society: Pioneer Cemetery Project ...... Award of Excellence Vermillion Co. Museum Society...... Gold Award Organizational Awards of Distinction Exhibits BRS Baseball Museum...... Volunteer Institution of the Year Downers Grove Park District Museum: Catalog Homes of Downers Grove. . . . Award. of Merit Jefferson Co. History Society & Village...... Small Institution of the Year Grayslake Heritage Center and Museum: Farms: Seeds of Our Community. . . . Award. of Merit Northern Illinois University Art Museum: Looting, Hoarding, Collecting . . Repatriation and Museums ...... Award. of Merit About the program: Service Awards Illinois Association of Museums honors Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum: Nature’s Struggle: Survival & Extinction . . . . Award. of Merit Award of Best Practices member institutions that have crossed Elk Grove Historical Museum: Folks with Spokes...... Award of Excellence There are three levels of best practices. anniversary milestones. Many of these Northern Illinois University Art Museum: On Watching and Being Seen. . . .Award of Excellence An Award of Merit recognizes a project institutions would not survive without that makes a significant contribution in its tremendous support from their volunteer Elmhurst Historical Museum: Carl Sandburg in Elmhurst...... Award of Excellence category and meets professional standards. forces. Thus, IAM would also like to Elmhurst Historical Museum: An Award of Excellence recognizes work recognize those volunteers who, over an of excellent quality and that uses available extended period of time, have given of Shutter to Think: The Rock & Roll Lens of Paul Natkin...... Award of Excellence resources well, is creative, and meets their time, effort, and expertise to an Illinois Geneva History Center: Start with a Sketch...... Award of Excellence professional standards. Multiple Merit and museum. For this reason, the Anniversary Excellence Awards may be presented and Service Awards have been established. Robert R. McCormick Museum: Robert R . McCormick...... Award of Excellence each year. A Superior Achievement Award Award of Distinction The Raupp Museum: The Crossroads Exhibit...... Award of Excellence recognizes achievements that are models Awards of Distinction recognize Sycamore History Museum: General Dutton’s America ...... Award of Excellence for the profession and reach a greater achievements and excellence in the audience than is normally reached by the museum field. Typically, one institution or Winnetka Historical Society: nominating institution. Only one nomination individual per category will be honored. The Adventurers: Winnetka’s Untold Tales of Travel 1899-1930...... Award of Excellence per category will be chosen as Superior. However, the IAM Awards Committee The Anthropology Museum at reserves the right to grant more than one Northern Illinois University...... Superior Achievement Award - award in a category. No institution or Fragments: Haiti Four Years after the Earthquake individual may win the same award more often than once every five years.