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May 10, 2009 - You are invited to the ANNUAL meeting of the Kaukauna Area Historical Society which will be held on Wednesday, May 13, 2009, at 6:30 P.M. in the Haen Room on the campus of St. Paul Elder Services located at316 East Fourteenth Street in Kaukauna.

 

Our business meeting this year will include the election of three Board members, and two minor changes to our Bylaws [A detailed agenda is below]

 

Our program will include a video from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) and display of some of the donations and artifacts we’ve received.

 

As part of our program we’d like everyone attending to bring along a recipe from the oldest recipe book you own OR one of the oldest recipes in your recipe collection.  Photocopy it, hand copy it, or bring the original and we’ll start our program by having everyone read the title and origin of their recipe.

AGENDA

I. Welcome

II. Business Meeting

1. Reports

2. Bylaws changes:

(1) Section 6.01 (a) containing the following sentence:  “The Board of Directors shall meet monthly.”
will be changed to:  “The Board of Directors shall meet bi-monthly (in January, March, May, July, September, and November).”
(2) Section 2.02 (a) which is currently:  “Memberships shall be individual and family.  A family membership is intended to include two adult members of the same household.”
will be changed to:  “Membership shall be individual.”
(3) Section 2.03 (b) which currently states: “Each annual family membership shall be entitled to two adult votes at all meetings of the


membership and shall be entitled to such benefits and privileges as shall be set forth in the regulations and proceedings of the organization.”

 

will be eliminated

 

3. Election of Board Members:  The terms of the following Board members of the Kaukauna Area Historical Society have expired and each has agreed to serve another three-year term (expires May 2012) if elected:

(1) Diane Wittman, Jim Severson and Craig Lahm

 

III. Program

1. Share recipes names and origin

2. AASLH Video

3. Display of donations and artifacts

IV. Adjournment



April 20, 2009 - Save the dates!  The 2009 Local History & Historic Preservation Conference is scheduled for October 9-10 in Wausau.  Watch their website for details:  www.wisconsinhistory.org/localhistory

2009 Calendar
Announcements regarding general meetings will be sent to KAHS members, posted on this web site, and published in area media as soon as arrangements are completed.   KAHS members are invited to the bi-monthly KAHS Board Business meetings
Board meetings will be held in the odd numbered months - January (1), March (3), May (5), July (7), September(9), and November (11).

 

MAY

Wednesday - May 13 - ANNUAL MEETING - 6:00 P.M. Haen Room - St. Paul Elder Services

 

JUNE

 

 

JULY

SUMMER NEWSLETTER
Wednesday - July 8 - Board Meeting - 6:00 P.M. KAHS Room - Nicolet School

 

AUGUST


 

SEPTEMBER

Wednesday - September 9 - Board Meeting - 6:00 P.M. KAHS Room - Nicolet School

 

OCTOBER
FALL NEWSLETTER


NOVEMBER
Wednesday - November 11 - Board Meeting - 6:00 P.M. KAHS Room - Nicolet School

DECEMBER

April 20, 2009
St. Paul manor will be host to a Bake Sale, Plant Sale and Brat Fry on Friday (May 15th), Saturday, (May 16th), and Sunday (May 17th).  This would a good time to view the manor.

01/23/2009
Yesterday (Thursday - 1/22/09), Helen Van Epern and I stopped by Les and Joyce Abel's home where we received a donation of papers and memorabilia from the Black Home on Wisconsin Avenue.  Included in this donation was a coverlet made for the Black family in 1851 - it's in awesome condition.

Tomorrow (Saturday - 1/24/09) at 10:00 A.M. I'll be going over to Karen Van Lyssel's home in Appleton for the next bulk donation of items from the High Cliff Historical Society.  

I've also got to re-schedule a meeting with Dick Berkers who wants to donate some books and clippings about Kaukauna.

All that being said, I think we may have to schedule some kind of workday to organize identify and store the numerous donations we'll soon have.  Of course at that time we could determine the procedures for adding items so that we might be able to call on others KAHS members to help.  I'm thinking some Saturday or evening work times might be scheduled in the next 2 weeks. 

I have completed  the forms we need for receiving, acknowledging, and cataloging donations.  The pressure of having to come up with these FAST it has forced the development of simple, practical, and essential forms - it was a little daunting to read through the many highly detailed and technical forms in use by other museums and societies.

As regards our collections policy - as I think I've mentioned - it's very simple "we collect everything that was made, used, or housed in the Kaukauna area".   To paraphrase, "collect everything and let God (or the next generation of KAHS members) sort it out".

Another bit of news, a UW-Fox Valley professor stopped by the library to do research for an upcoming article in Voyageur magazine and wanted use some of Tom Duescher's research.  He will be contacting Tom some time soon.

I trust many of you have read Tom Collins' article on KAHS in the Times Villager - it was great.  However, I was a little curious as to who "Tom Duesman" was!!??  I'm planning to call Tom Collins re another article idea and I'll mention the typo. 


[01/09/2009]    
Due to concerns about the weather, the January KAHS Board meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Janaury 14th, has been CANCELLED.
The KAHS Board will meet on Wednesday, February 11th, at 6:00 P.M. in the KAHS room at Nicolet.
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[10/21/08]
Tom Duescher, Gene Ploetz and Lee Vosters made a great presentation to the Little Chute Historical Society last night at the village complex.  The LC Historical Society had a very good turnout (20-30 people).  A representative of the Friends of the Fox was there and urged local history society members from the Valley to attend a meeting held to coordinate information and activities regarding the Fox River River Corrider Historic Site.  Details to follow.
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[10/09/08] 
KAHS has a home:  KAHS was notified that the Kaukauna Area School District Board has unanimously approved offering our society a room in the former Nicolet School as a storage/work room at no charge on a year-to-year basis. This means that some of the items already collected by KAHS can be centrally stored and worked on.  And, of course, it means that we can actively and aggressively collect artifacts and memorabilia about the Kaukauna area.
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[10/09/08] 
KAHS and the Kaukauna Public Library:  Now that KAHS has a "home" and our "non-profit" IRS designation, we can start enhancing KAHS organizational identity as a distinct from the Kaukauna Public Library.  The library has been unstinting in its support for the development of KAHS. We will not be abandoning our relationship with the Library and the outstanding collections of the Kaukauna Public Library.Rather we will be identifying effective ways for both organizations to effectively cooperate in our common goal to collect and preserve materials and artifacts relating to the Kaukauna area.