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Thank You to Our Sponsors! Program 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 Coronado Theatre 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. .
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