Volume 1, Issue 4, December 31, 2005
School Children Visit Museum
Carolyn was hostess to 36 school children and their teachers when they came to visit the museum in early October. Mr. Marsh brought his class and Mr. Burkdoll also brought his class.
Attends KMA Convention
Carolyn and
Linda attended the Kansas Museum Associations convention in
Cookbook Contest
Remember our 150th anniversary cookbook from last year? It has been submitted into a cookbook contest sponsored by the Tabasco Company. Copies were sent for the entry and by the
end of the year we will be notified when we win. The top prize is $2,500.
Membership Dues
Thank you to all of those who have paid their membership dues for next year. If you have not renewed your membership for next year, this will be the last newsletter you will receive. Renew now so that you continue receiving the newsletter.
Annual Meeting
The Burlingame
Historical Preservation Society annual meeting was held on December 14, 2005 at
the genealogy room at the museum. This
date was changed from December 8 because of the weather. Board members elected were
Recent Acquisitions
We received the following items that were
not previously mentioned:
Wendell Seastrom--mining
items
Judy Thompson--hatboxes and Masonic items
Jette Dorr--household items.
Delene Sherretts—high school
yearbook
Doug Franzen—military items
Linda Eylander—
Gilbert Masters—military items
Bill Gifford—farm memorabilia
Robert Hollar—household
items
Harlan Bevitt-miscellaneous
items
A Special Thank You
All of our volunteers are special and very much appreciated, as we could not operate the museum without each of you. Thank you for your continued support.
Country Christmas Festivities
Visitors to the museum were greeted to the
sound of Christmas music playing. The
museum was once again decorated with the Festival of Trees. Winning trees were 1st place,
Sandy Lewis with her dog bone tree; 2nd place, First Grade Class
with hand made ornaments; 3rd place, G’s Frozen Custard & Yogart with their quarter tree; 4th place, Amy
Stromgren and Brianna Strohm with their tree of kitchen utensils.
New this
year was the addition of the Christmas luminaries in the windows of the museum,
just as when the school children used to make them for the windows at
Christmas. We thank Marge Day, Christi
Droege, Kathy Smith, Cindy Harris, Allison Droege, Brianna Strohm, Rita Scheopner
and Donelda Sage for making
these for us.
Our tour of
homes this year featured the wonderfully decorated homes of Blair and Jennifer Ogleby, David and Annette Zerbe. Scott and Stephanie Teeselink and Martin
and Nancy Quaney. Thank you for opening your home for our
tour. Thanks also to Cecilia Berry,
Christi Droege, Judy Masters and Jean Tufts, our
volunteer hostesses at these homes.
The museum participated in the craft show by offering items from our gift shop along with homemade soup mixes, dessert mix and muffin mixes. Samples of one of the soup mixes were offered for “taste testing”. This was a new idea this year.
Mike Fagan donated two tickets to KC Chiefs football games for two different dates to be raffled. Winners were Tonia Hunter and Christi Droege.
We are happy
the First State Bank has chosen the
Future Plans
We have some exciting plans in store for the coming year and will give you further details as our plans progress.
Our efforts in our membership drive will continue.
A very unique veterans memorial project that we hope will create much interest and participation will be introduced.
We will explore the possibilities of becoming on the historical register.
Our genealogy department will expand with some added resources for research.
These are just a few of the areas which we have plans at this time.
Happy Holidays
We would like to wish all of our members, volunteers and friends a very happy holiday season and the very best of wishes for a wonderful new year.