History Room Project
Chris Allyn
3/9/2007
Thanks to the perseverance of a number of people and the work of a
few, we have been able to initiate the Office/Archives room downstairs in the clubhouse.
Mary and the House Committee focused on having the room finished and thanks go
to Bruce Bowden, George Kuchler, Guy Bowden, and
Joyce Murray for the efforts necessary to get the room occupiable.
There is a heat pump/air conditioner making it possible to work in the room in
all seasons and providing some control over humidity and temperature extremes.
After completion of the construction, thanks go to the Edgars for donating the desk
and drafting work table. Finally, after all was ready, it took the constant
encouragement and considerable assistance of Joyce Murray and the occasional
muscle power of Ken Heiden to transfer the archive
material that I had been storing in the Allyn house
down to the room. We also brought in two additional file cabinets (making
three) and both map drawer units (giving 10 drawers in all). Joyce and I
spent some time placing all of the assembled materials in rough chronological order
into the file cabinets (one for each organization) and began the task of
assembling minutes into binders.
We would like to have something like a History TGIF or
Brunch/afternoon during the coming year to showcase some of what we have and
maybe dedicate the room itself. In addition, Terry Dwyer has asked and
offered to help in scanning material to begin the process of developing a
searchable digital archive of the