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June 02
LWHS Online Newsletter
Our Home and Heritage
June 2002, Issue #1
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LWHS
Online Newsletter
Our Home and Heritage
June
2001, Issue #1 |
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Opening words from the president...
It
has been six months since the LWHS was registered as a non-profit
Pennsylvania Corporation. This letter is to provide all
members with a status report of the Society – what we have
done, what we are doing, and what we are planning.
Our goals were carefully chosen, and in the main, have proven
to be appropriate and implementable. However, our timetable
for implementing the goals, was overly optimistic – we were
trying to ride the bicycle while we were building it. Therefore,
we are reconfiguring the timetable so as to allow for implementing
the goals with sound expedition rather than perfunctory
compliance.
We intend to publish a quarterly newsletter, however, those
pesky unforeseen circumstances require us to reconfigure
our timetable in order to produce the quality publication
we want. The plan is to begin publishing the Official Society
Newsletter in the first quarter of 2003. In the meantime,
all members will receive another of these "Presidential
- Update Letters " in October, 2002. We need volunteers
to write for and to edit the newsletter. If you have the
time, talent, and interest, please apply.
The website project is moving along slowly ( at least not
as quickly as we had hoped ) but surely ( we want to take
the time to produce an attractive, informative, user-friendly
site). We plan to have the Website - Lilly-WashingtonHistoricalSociety
- established by August, 2002. We welcome any suggestions
or technical help you can offer.
Please take the time to fill out this month's membership
response form.
Peace,
Jim Salony
President LWHS
Questions? Please contact:
814-886-7282
salonyt@yahoo.com
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| Minutes
from this month's meeting |
At
the February meeting of the LWHS, Pennsylvania Representative
Gary J. Haluska swore into office the following LWHS Directors
and Officers:
James Salony - President
John Gides - Vice-President
Beverly Mandichak - Recording Secretary
Deborah George - Corresponding Secretary
Donald George - Treasurer
David Beck Jr., Robert Monahan, Scott Steberger, Nadine
Rodgers, Hugh Conrad.
At the March meeting of the LWHS, the Society's By-Laws
were adopted. Prior to the April meeting, a dessert social
was held to thank the membership-drive volunteers and to
update them on our progress. UPDATE FINANCIAL STATUS OF
THE LWHS Total Amount collected from membership dues and
donations + interest - $11,651.74 Total expenditures - $
703.95 Total cash on hand 4/30/02 $10,947.79 Certificate
of Deposit $5,000 Savings Passbook 3,300.74 Checking Account
2,647.05 $10,947.79 A fully detailed Accounting Statement
will be included in the October, 2002, Newsletter.
We need your help. The member chosen to be the eleventh
director was unable to serve and one director resigned in
May because of career commitments. Therefore, we are seeking
two directors. We welcome volunteers and encourage nominations.
In keeping with our policy of timetable reconfiguration,
we are asking all directors and officers to extend their
term of office for one year - that is - a director sworn
in for a one year term (2002) would extend that term through
(2003).
No
current events scheduled.
A major project of the LWHS is to record the oral history
of all Heritage Members, to establish a reference base for
the History Book of the Lilly-Washington Area. We have painstakingly
created the interview procedures, forms and questionnaires.
We have purchased one digital recorder for $100.00 (and
could use at least two more if anyone out there needs a
tax deduction ). We have conducted two training sessions
for interviewers and have had one practice interview. We
expect to begin the Heritage Members' interviews in early
July, 2002, We need interviewers and transcribers. If you
have the time, talent, and interest, please apply.
Lilly
Borough which owns the former House of Steins is working on
clearing the numerous liens (business and tax ) that encumber
the property. When the title is cleared the Borough and the
Township have pledged to work with the LWHS in converting
the building into a museum with a façade resembling the old
Lilly Depot as shown on the newsletter envelope.
Lilly Borough is converting an area on the second floor of
the Borough Building to provide office space for the LWHS.
For those of you whom have not been “ home “ in a number of
years - the Borough has remodeled the old VFW Building on
Cleveland Street into a well appointed municipal center. When
the second floor LWHS office is established, we will have
to equip it to best carry out our mission. The first item
on the must list is a state of the art computer system. The
system we need will cost about $2000.00. WE NEED YOUR HELP.
Do you know of a source that we could pursue for a donation
of such a system? (We don’t qualify for a Bill Gates’ grant
) Is there anyone out there that that needs a tax deduction
or would like to memorialize a special person with such a
donation?
We have developed the procedures and forms necessary to acquire
artifacts related to the history of the Lilly-Washington Area.
However, at this time we would prefer to document the availability
of such artifacts rather than take physical possession of
them – until such time as we have appropriate storage and
display space. What we do need now are photos. Photos (postcards
are welcomed) that depict some aspect of the history of the
Lilly-Washington Area. General guidelines – photos of events,
town views, people, groups, teams, bands, reunions, church
festivals, parades, organizational events –PNA, Sokols, GBU,
Victor Emmanuel III, Fire Company- you get the idea. The older
the better – probably no later than 1966, the last year for
Lilly-Washington Joint High School. It would be most helpful
if the photo could be dated, and the people, events, buildings,
etc. identified. We will accept donations of actual photos
or good copies –or we would ask to borrow photos to make copies
and return the originals post- haste.
Our
well researched and ably presented application for an Official
Pennsylvania Historical Marker to identify Plane #4 of the
former Allegheny Portage R.R. was denied “because there are
already enough markers for the A.P.R.R.” The Official marker
would have cost us a $600.00 matching fee. So we decided to
make lemonade out of this lemon. We will fashion our own markers
– memorialize several dozen sites in the borough and the township
– map them out - and arrange tours.
Above is a copy of an early 1900 postcard showing Plane #
4 as viewed from Portage Street (showing St.Luke’s on left
front ) and continuing up the level road. The LWHS has chosen
as its first major historical project the restoration of Plane
# 4 to replicate the view shown on this postcard. Lilly Borough
owns the entire plane and has pledged ( as has Washington
Township ) full support of the project. One of our Historical
Markers will be placed at the top of the restored plane indicating
Plane #4, and another Marker at the base identifying “Foot
of Four “ an early name for the community. (Some of the other
sites proposed for markers include all of the coal mines that
surrounded the community and the seven grammar schools that
dotted the township – Riley School, Scanlon Hill School etc.
).
The
LWHS is working to establish a genealogical base for those
who want to compile family histories. More details to come.
The
LWHS has assumed the responsibility for making the Year
2006 - (the bicentennial year of the establishment of this
area as a designated legal entity) - a memorable one where
in we commemorate and honor our ancestors and the history
of the community. We have proposed a tentative calendar
of events. (check enclosed copy.)
We need your help. We welcome all suggestions for additions
to the proposed calendar for 2006. We invite all the sons
and daughters of our community - and particularly former
residents, in scheduling your visit(s) to your hometown
in 2006, - to please focus on the Labor Day Weekend, which
will be THE BIGGEST BASH OF THE BICENTENNIAL YEAR - featuring
a parade- dinner - dance - fireworks - and a reunion of
all the graduates of Lilly-Washington Joint High School.
We have proposed a budget of $20,000 to fund the events
of the bicentennial year. We are looking for twelve sponsors
who are willing to budget $l.10 a day - (which amounts to
$400,00 a year ) - for four years - January 1, 2003 - to
- December 3l, 2006. Each organization and business in the
local area will be offered the opportunity to become a sponsor.
The Lilly Borough Council and The Washington Township Council
have each agreed to be a sponsor.
The first goal of the LWHS is to recruit as members ALL
current and former residents of Lilly Borough and Washington
Township. With the yeomen (and yeowomen ) effort of scores
of volunteers ( see enclosed list ) we have made significant
progress in recruiting current residents as members ( see
enclosed list of Phase One memberships ) and we are beginning
to process former residents as members (see enclosed list
of Phase Two memberships ). Please check these lists to
verify that your membership has been recorded correctly.
We need your help. As to current residents, we intend to
contact ( recontact ) all current residents who have not
signed on as members. As to former residents, we have sent
out 500 applications and received fewer than 50 ( all be
they enthusiastic ) responses. We ask all members to read
over the list of members and to encourage any family or
friends who have not joined to send in their application
for membership. We would like to complete our address roster
of former residents, so we ask all members to supply us
with current addresses of former residents if you have not
already done so.
To encourage new members to sign up ( and to provide full
value to those members who signed up early ) we are extending
ALL ANNUAL memberships until December 31, 2003- that is
- for the payment of one year's dues anytime during 2002
or 2003, the applicant will be listed as a charter member
and be considered paid up for both years.
UPDATE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE As of 6/24/02 Total Memberships - 445 - (Total
Members - 821) Heritage - 57 Student $ 2.00 - 2 Adult $ 5.00 - 70 Adult
Sustaining $25.00 - 18 Household $10.00 - 159 (average 3 per = 477)
Household Sustaining $30.00 - 29 (average 3 per = 87) Life $50.00 - 74
Life Sponsor $100.00 - 16 *Life Patron $150.00 - 2 Life Benefactor
$250.00 - 8 MEMORIALS DONATIONS Memorial Sponsor $ 50.00 - 8 General
< $ 25.00 - 10 * Memorial Patron $100.00 - 2 Designated $l00.00 - 2
Memorial Benefactor $200.00 - 1 Memorial $ 25.00 - 7 * These categories
were added for Phase II of the Membership Drive - Any member
may upgrade any membership category at any time before the plaques are
engraved. In due time, bronze plaques will list the Life and Memorial
Sponsors, the Life and Memorial Patrons, and the Life and Memorial
Benefactors, respectively.
The
LWHS will publish a calendar for each of the four years, 2003 - to -
2006. Each month will have a large historical picture at the top of the
page. The 12 sponsors will be acknowledged through out the calendars
and will have one month each year where each will be individually
identified. NOTE: Each LWHS member (Household Memberships are
considered as a single member in this case) may purchase one calendar
for $l.00 - plus a dollar postage if it is to be mailed. Additional
calendars may be ordered at $4.00 each plus a dollar postage for each
one that is to be mailed. 2003 Calendars will be available as of
October l, 2002 (An Order Form for 2003 Calendars is enclosed.)
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