SUBJECT: Minutes of Peterson Air & Space Museum
Foundation Staff Meeting, 0900hrs,
27 February 2017
ATTENDEES: Brown, John; Burns, Dick; Freyer, Gus; Grady,
Bob; Henderson, Jim; Howells, Glyn; Howells, Phyllis; Long, Bruce; Miller,
Mike; Mogel, Jake; Moyer, Norm; Reiner, Errol; Yepez, Linda; Whalen, Gail,
DAFC, Director;
Opening Remarks: Meeting called to order at 0905.
Whalen
showed the “Mystery at the Museum” TV episode which showed how a wrong phone number
in the newspaper resulted in NORAD becoming the place to call to track Santa
Claus’s Christmas Eve flight. Even showed our red White House only phone.
Long
commented that the review of 2016 financials by an outside CPA firm had gone
well with the firm signing off on the numbers.
Long also presented brief January 2017 results: income $3,078, expense $53 and $75676 cash in
the bank.
Henderson
commented that visitor, etc. numbers were incomplete and not meaningful anyway after
only one month of the year.
Curator’s
Update – Whalen
Showed
the website home page and then the calendar in the members only section.
Discussed
the calendar contents (e.g. retirement schedules, large groups) and the scheduling
difficulties, due, in part, to not enough docents.
Whalen
said we need about 16 new full time docents.
A recruiting campaign is planned.
Meeting
adjourned at 1040 hours.
Next
meeting: 27 March at 0900 hrs.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim
Henderson, Secretary.