Vol. 9 No. 2 Fall/Winter 2010

Board of Trustees

President Emeritus Charles W. Hummer, Jr. President Joseph J. Wood Vice President Patricia Steiner Kearns Executive Vice President Katherine E. Egolf Secretary Barbara Bonnano Marshall Treasurer Paul D. Glassburn

Trustees

Fred Bremer Richmond Brown, Ph.D. John Patrick Coffey Richard Cunningham Gerry DeTore Frank Stevens Hawks Robert J. “Bob” Karrer, Jr. Paul Morgan, Ph.D. Richard Morgan Shawn Rupp Rachel A. Schipper, Ph.D. J. Dorn Thomas Robert F. Zumbado

Board of Advisors

Robert K. Dawson William R. Gianelli Thomas R. Goethals D. P. McAuliffe Robert R. McMillan

Staff

Elizabeth Neily, Director Marilyn White, Office Asst. Editor

Peggy A. Huff

Panama Canal Museum

7985 113th Street, Suite 100

Seminole, FL 33772-4785

Tel 727-394-9338

Email: office@panamacanalmuseum.org

Website: www.panamacanalmuseum.org

PCM/UF Partnership Shows Results

Upcoming 2011 Events January 20 ─ EDU/PCM present an exclusive viewing of the PBS presentation Panama Canal.

March ─ Space Coast Bunco VI, Cocoa Village, FL. Date TBA.

March 6 ─ 7-day eastern Caribbean cruise on Royal Caribbean’s new Allure of the Seas.

March 31 ─ Museum store’s “Happy New Year” sale ends.

May 7 ─ 14-day transatlantic cruise aboard the Celebrity Constellation.

May 11-17 ─ “Ladies Only” retreat to Panama.

July 6-10 ─ Panama Canal Society Reunion, Orlando World Center Marriott.

Contact the museum for additional details on these events.

During the relatively short period of the Panama Canal Museum’s partnership with the University of Florida, much has been accomplished, including:

• Transfer to UF of yearbooks, telephone books and other library books that are duplicates in the

museum’s collection.

• Digitalization of important publications like the Panama Canal Review, Canal Record and

Spillway. See some of them at: http://ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/pcm.

• Provision of two research awards to promote research on Panama, the Panama Canal and the

Canal Zone, and on the role of the US in Panama's history.

• Conducting of 22 oral history interviews with more planned for the Panama Canal Society

reunion in Orlando, FL, in July 2011.

• Planning with UF and the Library of Congress for a 2014 joint exhibit commemorating the 100th

anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal.

Dues and donations of PCM members have helped support these projects. Future

dues and donations will support other projects like these that help preserve the history of the

United States in Panama. Thank you to all who have contributed in the past and who will

continue to donate to make projects like these possible.

George and Carrie Heim Family Visits Museum

Descendents of Roosevelt Medal holder George and Carrie Heim recently

visited the Panama Canal Museum in Seminole, FL, when they gathered for a reunion at

a nearby beach. At the museum, the group, now named Corrigan, Cotton, DeHart,

Hatchett, Hennessey, Kalander, McCullough, Ohman, Pridgen and Saum, enjoyed

checking on other Roosevelt Medal holder relatives and seeing some historic reminders

of their common heritage.

MUSEUM HOURS:

Monday - Saturday 10 AM - 4 PM

Have Trunks, Will Travel Membership

Representatives Alabama Larry Siegel larrysiegel@bellsouth.net Arizona Carl Berg carlnberg@aol.com Southern California Joan De Grummond Tina Cartotto Ressa zonejoan@aol.com Carolinas Alice Latimer compcouns@aol.com Miami, Florida Hindi Diamond diamond_hindi@yahoo.com Mickey Walker Fitzgerald mickeyftz@aol.com Pensacola, Florida Barbara Egolf Dedeaux dedeaux1@cox.net Barbara Vose-Kulig czbarbv@hotmail.com Sarasota, Florida Barbara Peterson tommypete@verizon.net Tampa Bay, Florida Muriel Whitman Cristobal43@tampabay.rr.com

Atlanta, Georgia Marie Drake mariedrake@bellsouth.net Pacific Northwest Dan & Pat Nellis chdarwin9581@toast.net Poconos Gordon Davis Gdavis1@comcast.net Kerrville, Texas Jo-Anne Fields Joanne_fields@hotmail.com Washington Marilynn Stevens momthept@aol.com

Thanks to the generosity of a number of

individuals and groups, the Panama Canal Museum in

a Trunk (MIAT) is finding its way to various schools

across the United States and Puerto Rico. We now

have MIATs in the following locations with donors

listed in parentheses: District of Columbia (PCM

Board of Trustees); Duval County, FL (James and

Patricia Steiner Kearns); P. K. Yonge Developmental

Research School at UF in Gainesville, FL (Dr. Carol

Meyer); Hillsborough County, FL (Anonymous);

Leon County, FL (Frank Leves); Manatee County, FL

(Propeller Club of Manatee); Orange County, FL

(Judith Engelke Montanaro); Pinellas County, FL

(Pinellas County Cultural Affairs Grant); Diocese of

St. Petersburg, FL (Gerry Cooper); Panama Canal Museum in Seminole, FL (Pinellas

County Cultural Affairs Grant); Roswell, GA (Balboa High School Classes of 1949 and

1950); Puerto Rico (LMC Institute—Luis Carillo); Greenville County, SC (Balboa

High School Class of 1961); and Virginia Beach, VA (Beverly and Gladys Gramlich).

Has a trunk arrived in your county or that of your parents or grandparents? Please

help us reach all 50 states by sponsoring a trunk on your own or with others!

Sponsorships are $1500 and will be an immense help in our educational outreach

efforts.

Yearbooks Needed and For Sale

The museum is trying to complete its Canal

Zone and DoDDS-Panama school yearbook

collections. If you have any you’d like to donate,

please contact the museum to see if you have any

that we lack.

We have a number of yearbooks (some used,

some unused) for sale on our website now

(panamacanalmuseum.org) for $25 each. These are duplicates of yearbooks we have

donated to the University of Florida and still have in our library. Take a look to see if

we have some you’d like to have!

Last summer we started a program with the University of Florida to provide

DVDs of the yearbooks for classes having reunions at the Panama Canal Society

reunion. Individuals or the classes as a whole donate at least $250 to sponsor the

various class DVDs. Class members can then order the DVD for $15 if picked up at

the reunion or museum, or $20 if mailed. The DVDs are of high quality resolution

and include a special feature that allows the viewer to turn each page using a computer

mouse. We will be repeating this popular program for the 2011 reunion and

contacting class representatives about it in early 2011.