FULBRIGHT FAMILY ARCHIVES ROOM
Del Bishop, a member of the General Board and the Fulbright Family Association Archivist has sent us a report of the progress on the Family Archives Room. We have been successful! Please, read the report carefully and if you have not helped us on the project thus far, join in! DLF
Our goal of establishing a Fulbright Family Archives Room in the History Museum for Springfield - Greene County is almost a reality. I received the following letter, dated September 1, 1993, from Maria A. Holperin, Executive director of the History Museum:
"On behalf of the History Museum for Springfield - Greene County, I would like to congratulate you and the Fulbright Family Association for their efforts on behalf of the Fulbright Family Archives Room. The Board of Directors of the History Museum met on August 26, and received my report on the pledges made by your family association. The Board voted to formally accept your pledges of $11,350 towards the $15,000 fmal goal over the next three years to sponsor the Fulbright Family Archives, with the understanding that the Fulbright Family will raise the remaining $3,650 by the end of the three year period. In addition, a sign for the Fulbright Family Archives will be erected outside of the room once the Museum has received $4,100 in cash from the pledges (we have already received $900 in donations; the board had stated they would like to have received $5,000 before they erect a sign).
"Many thanks for all your efforts towards this successful campaign for the Fulbright Family Archives at the History Museum. We look forward to a long and happy association with the Fulbright Family Association."
I believe the two very reasonable stipulations set by the Board of Directors of the History Museum can be met with just a little more effort on our part. First, if those who have made pledges would send in all or a portion of their pledges, the sign for the Fulbright Family Archives will be erected. Second, if those who for some reason or another have failed to send in their pledges for this worthwhile family project would do so we will soon reach our $15,000 goal. Needless to say, if those who have already pledged wish to in-crease their pledges it would be very commendable and appreciated.
The History Museum has a vast array of collections covering every facet of life throughout the history of Springfield, Greene County, and surrounding Ozarks area. Chief among its collections are the archives. This impressive collection of over 30,000 documents includes the third largest collection of historic photographs in the State of Missouri. The new archives room will provide 300 square feet of space for archives research and storage, with additional storage space located in the building. The Museum has asked for the $15,000 gift in order to create the appropriate facility for the archives, including structural modifications, appropriate conservation and storage facilities, and other related items.
The Fulbright Family can be extremely proud of its accomplishments to date and with a little more effort we can complete the project to establish a Fulbright Family Archives Room conceived at our first family reunion in June of 1991 and officially sanctioned at our June 1993 meeting. My sincere best wishes to all of you who have or plan to contribute to this extremely important project to preserve, protect and make available to all Fulbrights and the general public the historic documents, photographs and artifacts that document the lives and times of our ancestors.
Delbert A. Bishop
Fulbright Family Archivist
FULBRIGHT FAMILY PLEDGES
We are printing a list of those who have pledged to the Fulbright Family Archive Fund. We are not printing the amounts pledged, and we are not printing the names of those who may leave pledges incomplete. Come join us if you have not pledged. We are almost there.
Beck, Betty McClure
Bishop, Delbert
Burgess, Jean
Burnell Barbara
Carthel, James & Carol
Dickson, Roy
Egner, Lucinda
Fulbright, Alton
Fulbright, Arthur
Fulbright, Clinton
Fulbright, David
Fulbright, Dehorah Kay
Fulbright, Don
Fulbright, Gerald
Fulbright, Harold
Fulbright, Harry
Fulbright, Jane
Fulbright, Joe & Bertha
Fulbright, John Milliam
Fulbright, Judy
Fulbright, Leroy McKean
Fulbright, Lowell
Fulbright, Martin & Jean
Fulbright, Peggy Blake
Fulbright, Terry
Fulbright, O.V. & Blanche
Fulbright, William
Grubbs, William
Gurley, James
Gurley, Loreni
Hendricks, Gene
Herd, Thomas Richard
Hjorten, Myrtle
Houser, Catherine Fulbright
Jeffryes, James, Nancy & Brett
Knight, Bob & Jean
Levenson, Francis
Litton, Vivian Fulbright
Mangold, Nellie J.
McClure, James & Betty
Montgomery, Jack & Valli
Morrows, Flan
Nelson, Mildren
Petty, Mary Hope Crow
Ragsdale, Bill, Bob, Jane, etc. memory of Mary Jane Fulbright Ragsdale
Ragsdale, Howard, memory of Mary Jane Fulbright Ragsdale
Ransdall, Patricia
Stout, Edward
Voyles, Bill & Shirley