GDHS Meeting Minutes June 17, 2004
| 645pm – Board of Directors Meeting. |
| 735pm – President Ron brought the meeting to order. |
| Secretary Susan Forrey read the minutes. Motion to accept the minutes made by Madelyn Shermeyer and Norma Botterbusch. All members agreed. |
| Treasurer’s report given by Secretary Susan Forrey. Financial records referenced were from the meeting minutes dated May 20, 2004. President Ron read a short letter from the Dover Borough encouraging the Society to continue with its work and enclosed a check for $500.00. Three bills were presented for payment approval; $101.95 to Brett Pfleiger for website; $438.00 to Enders Insurance for Liability and Archive building insurance; $20.74 to Susan Forrey for the Dover Railway stock certificate she purchased. Motion to approve payment of the said bills was made by Randy Worley and Kay Stitley. All members agreed. |
| Archivist report by Dr Charles Drawbaugh [he remained seated] asked that the name of Harry Latchaw be added to the list of people to be interviewed. |
| Assistant Archivist Gayle Heagy said the Jacob Joner safe is now at the Township Building. The tumblers need to be set because all are at zero now. Gayle will follow up. Gayle will also send a thank you to the Elicker Family for their donation and the Laird Safe Co for moving the safe. Dover High School Library has some Oral History Class items used in compiling the Blood Roots book. Sally McCarthy will review these items and give them to Cindy Snyder. Cindy Snyder also told the group that possibly a large piece of the trolley track would be donated. Cindy will do the follow up. |
| There was no Web page report. |
| No Quilt report. Doris Burger not present. |
| Norma reminded us to sign up for the picnic. |
| Cindy Snyder brought the Assessment Book for York County dated 1908; 2 boards that had Dover Bicentennial and Nelson Baughman information and pictures mounted. |
| Blacksmith Shop Project – excavators are working in between the raindrops at Alda Ketteman Park. This will delay any work on our shop into the fall season. |
| Storage/Archives building has been ordered and will be built by August 12. |
| Preservation Fund – President Ron sent a letter to all the members asking for their help and the response has been very good. No report can be given at this time. [Too early] |
NEW BUSINESS;
| AARP Project was explained to our members. Dr Drawbaugh will help with the coordination of this project. The project; AARP members and anyone else who wishes to participate will be asked to look in their attics and those of their neighbors for items they wish to donate to the Society. These items will be photographed, a description written, the name of the person donating and their address will be recorded. In the future, a book will be published using these items. |
| The store on our website will be soon be offering a number of items such as crocks that will be embossed with “Dover Pa” or we can offer the buyer a picture of their house placed on the crock and Christmas Balls embossed with “Dover PA”. |
| President Ron informed the attending members that the Borough will restore the clock tower at Calvary Church. |
| The members were also informed that Nellie’s Restaurant, located at the intersection of Davidsburg and Carlisle Roads will close their business June 30, 2004. At that time a Walgreens Drug Store will be erected. Joyce Law will take pictures of the restaurant before it is taken down. |
Motion to adjourn was made by Cindy Snyder. Meeting was adjourned.
Next meeting will be held August 19 2004 at the Calvary Church. The July 15th meeting is the date of our picnic.