2004 Annual Meeting
Over 160 members and friends of the Oberlin Heritage Center attended the Oberlin Heritage Center's Annual Meeting at the Oberlin Inn on April 7, 2004. Following a welcome from Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, guests enjoyed a program on "Fun in Oberlin, Past and Present," featuring excerpts from Oberlin Oral History project interviews and presented by Elizabeth and Dan Goulding.
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Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur
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Past and Present life-sized cutouts welcome guests |
Certificates of Appreciation were given to three new honorary trustees who had served on the Board and in many capacities over the years: Sigrid Boe, Ruth Schwaegerle, and Jim Underwood. Five new trustees were elected to the 18-member Board, each for a three-year term. They were: Robert B. Calhoun, Che S. Gonzalez, David W. Mellott, Louise Richards, and Donna Marie Shurr. Current Board Member, Donald R. Wozniak, was elected as Board Treasurer. For a full wrap-up of the fun, awards, and elections that took place during the 2004 Annual Meeting, please read our press release.
A special feature of the Annual Meeting included the announcement of the 3rd Annual Oberlin Heritage Center Community Awards:
Recipients of the 3rd Annual
Oberlin Heritage Center Community Awards
The Oberlin Heritage Center Community Awards Program is designed to annually celebrate and recognize individuals, organizations and businesses whose outstanding accomplishments in serving the community are in keeping with the mission of the Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization: "...to preserve and share Oberlin's unique heritage and to make our community a better place to live, learn, work and visit." The following awards were presented at the Annual Meeting on April 7, 2004.
Community Historians of the Year
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Alfred R. Goerlich and Robert W. Oliphant,
for the
O-High Alumni website |
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From their respective homes in Marion, Ohio and Westford, Massachusetts, Oberlin High School alumni and classmates Alfred R. Goerlich and Robert W. Oliphant together have dedicated many, many hours to creating a website (www.oberlin-high.org) that is a treasure trove for anyone interested in Oberlin history and genealogy. It is also an amazing tool for bringing together alumni around the world through the power of the World Wide Web. Included on the site are class lists, obituaries, histories of the school buildings, a tool for finding "missing persons" for reunion planners and genealogists, and many other resources. It serves as a model for other communities to aspire to in terms of harnessing the power of the Internet to build community and to preserve and share local history. For their significant accomplishments and this lasting gift to everyone interested in the town of Oberlin's history, we are pleased to present them with the Community Historian of the Year Award. |
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Alfred Goerlich
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Robert Oliphant
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Oberlin Heritage Center Volunteer of the Year
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Richard Holsworth |
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there can be no one more deserving as Volunteer of the Year than Richard
Holsworth. No task is too large or too small nor too difficult nor
too messy for him. From former trustee and Facilities and Grounds
Committee Chairperson to snow shoveler and gardener, from photographer
to T-shirt creator, from computer guru, to doorknob polisher, to installer
of Heritage Trail bricks and provider of information to visitors strolling
through the Oberlin Heritage Center - whatever is needed, Dick does
it. Following in the footsteps of his predecessor and great friend
Glenn Hobbs, Dick has a phenomenal understanding of our historic
buildings and cares for them lovingly. Always steadying, always reliable,
always cheerful, and seemingly always available to help us,
Dick is the quintessential volunteer, on call and often on site, day
and night. For all this and more, we are very pleased to present Dick
with the Oberlin Heritage Center Volunteer of the Year Award.
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Dick Holsworth
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Keep Oberlin Beautiful Award
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Dennis Greive, for his work on America in Bloom
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 Dennis
Greive keeps Oberlin, college and town, beautiful both through his
job as Oberlin College Grounds Manager and through his volunteer contributions
in assisting the Oberlin Main Street Design Committee by planting
and caring for flower planters throughout downtown. Working behind
the scenes during the spring and summer of 2003 to help Oberlin with
its nomination in the America in Bloom national competition, he devoted
an entire weekend to helping to answer questions from the visiting
judges. Dennis and his staff have also helped us with various
projects over the years. Thanks to Dennis, we can all be proud of
Oberlin's beautiful plantings, the Japanese Garden at the Conservatory,
the Underground Railroad medicinal garden, Tappan Square, the flowers
at the Oberlin Inn, and more. We salute and applaud his accomplishments
by presenting him with the Keep Oberlin Beautiful Award.
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Dennis Greive
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