2021 Spring Newsletter

Front row

LeAnne Shields LuAnne Debrick

row 2 Elsie Cordle Lloyd Peckman Aggie Dillard row 3 Ann Davis Iris Kluber Nina Gerken row 4 Wes Cole Jana Barcus Vicent Thorpe

The board members of the museum

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED AT MIAMI COUNTY MUSEUM Phone 913-294-4940, 816-392-0605, 913-406-3243

G reeters, answer phone, if bored can help in other ways or read or knit etc. Computer input of all kinds Clip, Paste and scan obituary cards (we have approx. 44,000). Log in etc. all incoming museum items Research and answer incoming e-mail requests People with strong backs to help move or reorganize items Change our monthly displays Write articles for Quarterly Help with binding books — published in-house or oth erwise

There’s always dusting, running sweeper and general house keeping We’ve even lost our window washer gentleman who had been doing that for years! Docents , “not that stuff that hunters put out to at tract buck deer” but a person who leads guided tours especially through a museum or art gallery KEYBOARD PEOPLE WANTED We are trying to copy all of our obituary card files into a computer data base. Presently There are over 30,000 scanned obit cards that need to be renamed with the persons info on the card. The museum will provide USB thumb drives to volunteers who could take the drives back to their computers and rename them at their own pace.

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