Kaukauna Area Historical Society, Inc.
President
Craig Lahm called the meeting of KAHS to order at 6:31 PM on Wednesday, January
17, 2007.
Board
members in attendance: Craig Lahm, Jim Severson, Carol Van Boxtel, Tom Duescher,
Rebecca Welhouse, Tom McGinnis and Diane Wittman.
Julie
Coenen, Rev. Kandler and Jerry Kroll were excused.
Motion by
Becky Welhouse, seconded by Jim Severson to approve the November Board Minutes
and the January General Meeting Minutes.
Motion carried
Secretary/Treasurer Wittman presented the KAHS Annual Financial Report.
Motion by
Tom Duescher seconded by Carol Van Boxtel to approve the 2006 KAHS Financial
Report. Motion carried.
Wittman
asked for someone to audit the KAHS Financial Report.
Jim Severson agreed to do the audit.
The board
discussed sending a color flyer to all 2006 members to advise them of our
up-coming programs and to remind them that it is time to renew their
memberships.
President
Lahm reported that he has received a number of emails from people who wish to
donate old Kaukauna Club crocks to KAHS.
The January general meeting was discussed.
Only a few people attended the workshop on genealogy and the
possible reasons for that were discussed.
The consensus of the board was that there are people out there
who are interested in learning how to research their family tree.
Tom Duescher, Carol
Van Boxtel and Becky Welhouse would be interested in helping people on a
one-to-one basis. Craig will
prepare a brochure.
The Storytelling Program was also discussed.
There are many people interested in participating in the program and
while Julie is recuperating she will need help.
Becky
would be interested in going with someone when they take an oral history so she
can see how it is done before she does it alone.
Three people we would like to talk to would be Leo Driessen, Mark Nagen
and Gene Ploetz.
A
written transcript has been sent to each storyteller with a SASE asking
for corrections or changes.
The stories will then be corrected to a final draft and CDs will be
recorded. Each participant
will receive a final written transcript.
Tom Duescher would like to place a small bio on the web page for each
oral history and tell people to contact the library for the complete
article.
President
Lahm would like to get the tax exemption completed so people making donations to
KAHS would be allowed to take the tax deduction.
Craig will be working on this.
President
Lahm has submitted the forms for KAHS to become affiliated with the WI State
Historical Society. We are waiting
for a reply. Once that reply is
received we need to send them a complete set of our newsletters.
President
Lahm applied for a grant from the KEEN Foundation.
We received a grant for $360 to purchase a camera and an additional hard
drive.
Motion by Tom Duescher, seconded by Jim Severson to approve policies;
Newsletter Placement on Webpage Policy, Collecting Policy and Dues
Payments in the Last Quarter of the Calendar Year Policy.
Tom Duescher reported on the change to the Web Site.
He is using new software that will make the site easier for Tom
to changed and update.
If
someone is using information on the website for research Tom can make a
copy on a CD or a DVD. Using the information off a
CD or DVD will make doing the research faster.
Tom
Duescher reported that the library owns an 1828 map of
The board discussed future program ideas.
Craig will contact the potential speakers we discussed and try to
set up the next few meetings.
Meeting adjourned at 8:06 PM.
Diane Wittman
Recording Secretary