Our Volunteer Coordinator holds several events during the year to honor our volunteers. In April, we have a Volunteer Recognition Dinner, which is free for any volunteer who has worked 20 hours in a year, during National Volunteer Week in April. Staff is also invited for free. New volunteers pay for only the caterer's cost for their dinner. We also have an awards ceremony that night where we give out pins for 1, 5, 10, 15, and 20 years of service. There is also a Director's Award, Curator's Award, McKinley Award, and Volunteer of the Year. We have some form of entertainment to top off the evening. This year we added a slide show of all of them, which went over very well! We also have a Volunteer Enrichment Day in the fall, where a staff member from each department gives a short presentation on what we do, so that volunteers in other departments can learn about other positions. We have a guest speaker, a brief review of our Emergency Plan, and then we break off into departments to discuss upcoming plans for the year, policy changes, etc. For Christmas we have a covered dish luncheon with volunteers and staff. Those are incredibly successful, because everyone makes their best recipes! At the end of our busy school tour season, our Director of Education hosts a special thank you luncheon for the docents in June. Our science center holds a luncheon for their docents too. Our Shoppe Manager sometimes holds a tea at her house thanking her volunteers. Volunteers recieve free memberships for 40 hours of service. We also have at least one, sometimes two, volunteer field trips to other area museums which include special tours, lunch, etc. As a result, our volunteers LOVE coming to the museum to volunteer. Sign ups for every event we need them for fill up fast. Our Volunteer Coordinator does a wonderful job with them! Kim Kenney Curator ===== Kimberly A. Kenney, Curator Wm. McKinley Presidential Library & Museum 800 McKinley Monument Dr. NW Canton OH 44708 * 330-455-7043 Visit the Ohio Memory Project at http://www.ohiomemory.org "Let us ever remember that our interests are in concord, not conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war." --25th United States President William McKinley __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).