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2008 ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008 2008 ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008 Prepared for the ANNU A L MEETING of the VER M ONT HISTORIC A L SOCIETY September 13, 2008 ANNUAL REPORT JULY 1, 2007 - JUNE 30, 2008 1 Vermont Historical Society Staff J. Kevin Graffagnino, Executive Director Museum Jacqueline Calder, Curator Mary Labate Rogstad, Registrar Library Paul Carnahan, Librarian Marjorie Strong, Assistant Librarian Claire Gilbertson, Library Assistant Vermont Historical Society Trustees Bernadette Harrington, Library Assistant Education Officers Tess Taylor, Director of Education & Public President: Sarah L. Dopp, South Burlington, Vermont Programming First Vice President: Laura Warren, Richmond, Vermont Victoria Hughes, K-12 Education Programs Second Vice President: J. Brooks Buxton, Jericho, Manager Vermont Lisa Evans, League of Local Historical Societies Treasurer: H. Nicholas Muller, Essex, New York Manager Geraldine Brown, Museum Programs Manager Elected Trustees Polly Bentley, Museum Assistant Dawn K. Andrews, Morrisville, Vermont (election Fall 08) Stephen Bosserman, Museum Assistant S. Crocker Bennett, II, Hinesburg, Vermont Jacqueline O’Harkin, Weekend Museum Attendant Marilyn S. Blackwell, East Montpelier, Vermont Susan Templeton, Weekend Museum Attendant Randolph D. Brock, Swanton, Vermont Sarah Adelman, Community History Partnership Mary Ann Chaffee, Essex Junction, Vermont Coordinator (through June) Dennis J. Devereux, Belmont, Vermont (election Fall 08) Patricia Wiley, League of Local Historical Societies Stephen J. Green, Berlin, Vermont Manager (through January) Robert Guarino, Bennington, Vermont Ann Callear, Museum Store Manager (through October) Suzanne Kaiser, Dorset, Vermont Leslie Thomas, Museum Store Assistant (through Sep- Peter T. Mallary, Bradford, Vermont tember) Richard J. Marek, Newfane, Vermont (election Fall 08) Barbara B. Melhado, Dorset, Vermont Development and Public Relations Robert A. Mello, Hinesburg, Vermont Jane Campbell, Director of Development Barbara Mieder, Williston, Vermont (election Fall 08) Diane Campbell, Development Assistant Addison D. Minott, Guilford, Vermont Marcie Vallette, Marketing & Community Relations Sally Ogden, Peru, Vermont Coordinator Fletcher Proctor, Putney, Vermont Sara Giacherio, Development Coordinator Louise Roomet, Hinesburg, Vermont (through June) The Hon. Thomas P. Salmon, Rockingham, Vermont Kate Paine, Director of Marketing and Victor Swenson, Johnson, Vermont Community Relations (through August) Lola Van Wagenen, Ph.D., Charlotte, Vermont Christopher S. Wren, Fairlee, Vermont Finance & Facilities Kelly Carbo, Director of Finance and Operations Past President Rilla Brown, Financial and Administrative Assistant Jason Bacon, New Haven, Vermont Todd Marshall, Facilities Manager Karen Stites, Senior Administrative Assistant (through Ex Officio Trustees June) Tom M. Salmon, Montpelier, Vermont Deborah L. Markowitz, Montpelier, Vermont Publications Sybil Brigham McShane, Montpelier, Vermont Alan Berolzheimer, Book Editor Michael Sherman, Editor of Vermont History Honorary Trustees Lola P. Aiken, Montpelier, Vermont Mary Howland, West Windsor, Vermont Sanborn Partridge, Shelburne, Vermont The Vermont Historical Society was chartered in 1838 by Director J. Kevin Graffagnino, Montpelier, Vermont an act of the Vermont Legislature. It is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization, governed by a board of trustees. 2 ANNUAL REPORT JULY 1, 2007 - JUNE 30, 2008 170th ANNUAL MEETING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2008 8:30 am – 2:00 pm Meeting: Pavilion Auditorium 109 State Street Montpelier, Vermont Vermont Historical Society 60 Washignton St, Barre, VT 05641 Lunch: Pavilion Building, Snelling Room 802-479-8500 109 State Street [email protected] Montpelier, Vermont www.vermonthistory.org AGENDA 8:30 am – 9:30 am Registration/Coffee and Used Book Sale 9:30 am – 10:00 am Welcome and Executive Director’s Report Announcement of 2008 Weston A. Cate, Jr. Research Fellowship: Charlotte Rodabaugh, for her research project, “Green Mountain Brotherhood: Yankee Masculinity and the Vermont Regional Experience.” Announcement of 2008 Richard O. Hathaway Award 10:00 am – 11:30 am Business Meeting & Election of Trustees 11:30 am – 12:20 pm Keynote Speaker: Tom Peters “In Search of Excellence: The Vermont Way” 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Buffet Lunch – Pavilion Building Thank you Bates & Murray for sponsoring this year’s VHS Annual Meeting! ANNUAL REPORT JULY 1, 2007 - JUNE 30, 2008 3 4 ANNUAL REPORT JULY 1, 2007 - JUNE 30, 2008 Vermont Historical Society 2008 Annual Report July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008 DIRECTOR'S REPORT When you look at Vermont’s involvement in the Ameri- mont, offering curatorial workshops, advice and net- can Revolution, it’s remarkable that our small state working. The peer-to-peer learning offered by the VHS played such a pivotal role. Vermonters were key among e-newsletter for local societies and the League of Local those who delayed and defeated the British in the Cham- Historical Societies is invaluable for our state’s 196 so- plain Valley, thwarting England’s strategy of controlling cieties. Without VHS as a resource, most of these groups the Lake Champlain military corridor as the way to win couldn’t afford similar expertise and information. the war. Our museum staff partnered with the State House to That same “small state, big impact” concept character- preserve and house our state’s Civil War flags in the izes the 2007-2008 year for the Vermont Historical Soci- Society’s secure, temperature- and humidity-controlled ety. The nation’s highest honor for a museum or library vaults. This project and a newer initiative documenting – the 2007 National Medal of Honor from the Institute of Vermont organizations’ collections needs were IMLS Museum and Library Service (IMLS) – came to VHS for grant programs. innovative programs and services that engage Vermont- ers in all corners of the state. With History Day, teacher workshops, classroom lending kits and museum field trips, the new generations learn To be one of only ten organizations chosen out of what it means to be a Vermonter and why our state motto 140,000 libraries and museums in the US is an outstand- of Freedom & Unity represents our shared identity. ing achievement. We are grateful to Senator Bernie This year ushers in a change to one of our programs for Sanders for nominating the Society for this award, and students and local societies. 2008 was our eighth year of we hope all VHS members take pride in this accomplish- Community History Partnership (CHP), in which school- ment. children and local history volunteers worked together to research and document specific aspects of their town Our Society continues to balance the public’s differ- histories. Building on the strengths of CHP, our educa- ing needs for connecting to their Vermont heritage and tion department will now launch a multi-year program scholars’ needs for research materials and sophisticated to develop a K-12 Vermont history curriculum, working interpretation. with historians and educators throughout the state. The continuing success of Vermont History Expo, the Our library was also highlighted in several ways this online library catalog, the museum exhibit, and our web- year. In a dedication ceremony that reflected our grati- based resources give access to Vermont history that is tude to Senator Patrick Leahy for his help with the last hands-on and easily achieved. capital campaign, the senator named the VHS library the Howard and Alba Leahy Library, in honor of his par- The VHS store and publishing program bring to light im- ents, hardworking Vermonters who revered learning and portant but little known aspects of Vermont history. This education. year’s publication of Almost Utopia: The Residents and Radicals of Pikes Falls, Vermont, 1950 opens a window The library will also benefit from a newly created en- into the early roots of the “back-to-the-land” movement dowment, the Reiko and Charles E. Tuttle, Jr. Fund. The that has changed yet reinforced the culture of our state. fund was begun with generous donations from the Free- man Foundation and others who either knew the Tuttle VHS continues to be a central resource for museums, family or wanted to support the legacy of preserving schools and local historical societies throughout Ver- irreplaceable historic research materials. ANNUAL REPORT JULY 1, 2007 - JUNE 30, 2008 5 With an eye to future generations, both our library and Given the economic and legislative contexts in which museum continue to collect artifacts and other Ver- we are working, coupled with the deep roots of our montiana that characterize significant people, events fiscal concerns, the resolution of our financial dilemma and movements in our history. With the limited VHS will require hard work, perseverance and, most of all, budget, we often rely on the generosity of donors when assistance from our members and sponsors. making acquisitions. The one constant throughout the 170 years of Ver- Our 2007-2008 year was also a period of extreme con- mont Historical Society’s history is this: the Society’s trasts. The many encouraging achievements I’ve high- success rests on the shoulders of our supporters, the lighted above stand out against a background of severe people who best understand how critically important it financial challenges. Our fiscal situation requires both is to preserve and teach Vermont history. Accordingly, short-term and long-term measures. In response to de- I close this report with deep gratitude to the individu- creased funding,
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