ROTARY JAIL MUSEUM  AND  TANNENBAUM CULTURAL CENTER

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2011 Acknowledgements

Volunteers

Our thanks to following individuals and groups for their generous donations of time, talents, and resources: Sheri Clark (pictured as the sheriff’s wife) during Victorian Family Day wearing a dress and accessories donated by Marcheta Dixon of La Rose on Main; Lori Portner, Director, Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette and her student thespians, Cody Walker, Erika Gibson, Ariel Laukins, Meg Beaver; local musicians Kenn Clarke and Stephanie Poole who contributed immeasurably to the festivities of the Tannenebaum Cultural Center dedication; and Wabash College, Herman Haffner, and twenty five nameless Wabash College freshman for their work in our facilities and grounds.

Volunteer Highlight, Fall 2011

Kristina Johnson was a collections volunteer. She has interned at the Osborne Homestead Museum in Derby, Connecticut, and the Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  She also has experience writing for Examiner.com and worked as a Claims Analyst for ISGN. She recently moved to Indianapolis to begin graduate work in Museum Studies at IUPUI.

 In our museum, she worked with the collections under our curator's supervision. She organized and sorted the collections and cleaned out the collections room. She also worked on inventory. We appreciate Kristina’s efforts and thank her for her hard work!

Volunteer Opportunities - PRIORITY

Priority 1:

Museum Docents:

Bring your smile, training is provided. No previous experience required.

Ages: 18 years and older.

Priority 2:

Admissions and Gift Shop attendants

We are currently relocating the gift shop in our facility and are looking for volunteers that love meeting people and would like to help us with the new design and organization of this room.

No previous experience is required.

More Volunteer Opportunities

If you find yourself with time on your hands, come spend it with us at the museum.

We need volunteers to help us greet visitors, work in our museum shop, give tours, share their time and talent on committees, and help with our new programs, exhibits, and events.

Training and fun are provided.

All talents and skills are welcome. 

You will meet people from all over the country and the world sharing your time with us at the unique Rotary Jail Museum.

Some of the areas to work as a volunteer are:

Visitor Services

Exhibitions

Outreach programs

Summer Camp and art classes

Gift Shop attendant

Merchandise design

Special Events

Museum Marketing

Gardening  

Meet our VOLUNTEER OF SUMMER 2011

Grace Shelton

Grace is from Crawfordsville. She is a sophomore at Butler University, where she is studying political science with an art and design minor.

Grace assisted us all summer with art related programs and tasks. Besides her help with the gift shop and exhibits, she was our second instructor for summer art camp teaching our campers different art projects, but she also had to clean and organize our art supplies dusty storage rooms, one in the basement of the Sheriff's residence, and another in the Center for the Arts. She worked for several days in both rooms, always with a big smile.

After summer camp, Grace visited the local Crisis Shelter, as instructor of our Outreach Program that offers tile painting sessions for the residents of the center.

Grace, you did a great job. THANK YOU for all your time, generosity, and great attitude, we will miss you, and we wish you all the best in your journey.

Thank you