I don't remember seeing a posting on this, so I thought I would pass on some news from the heartland for those who noticed the want ads for an executive director of the Dan Quayle Museum in the AAM newsletter Aviso. Excerpted from the Indianapolis Star for Monday, July 25, 1994 (D1): "Michael E. Sellon has been named executive director/curator of the Dan Quayle Center and Museum at Huntington <Indiana>. Sellon, a native of Bemidji, Minn., was selected following a nationwide search. He brings a variety of experience and knowledge to running the museum, according to David Brewer, president of The Dan Quayle Commemorative Foundation Inc. "Sellon holds degrees from Bemidji State and Northern Illinois universities and has held positions as director, executive director and fund-raising consultant for museums since 1977. His job will include writing grants, collections management and acquisitions, exhibit planning, fund raising and directing overall operations for the foundation. "The museum opened June 17, 1993, in a 77-year-old, 4,000 square-foot building across from First Presbyterian Church, where Quayle worshiped as a boy. Former Vice President Quayle and his wife, Marilyn, participated in the dedication of the museum. <<Info on Quayle family deleted here>> "The museum reflects Quayle's small-town past. It contains memorabilia such as his Little League baseball uniform, his high school letter sweater and documents. It is a small museum, but significant expansion could come if, as Quayle hints, he should make a presidential bid in 1996. The museum is supported by the Quayle commemorative foundation, a nonpolitical, not-for- profit group based at Huntington. Sellon; his wife Marty; and two of their three children will be moving to Huntington." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [log in to unmask] | "Real solemn history, I cannot be MA program in Public History | interested in....The quarrels of popes Indiana University- | and kings, with wars or pestilences Purdue University at ü in every page; the men all so good for Indianapolis | nothing, and hardly any women at all." (out of town Aug. 8-12) ü --JANE AUSTEN _____________________________ ü_________________________________________