{"id":4784,"date":"2021-04-05T10:27:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:18:39","slug":"museum-volunteers-are-priceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2021\/04\/05\/museum-volunteers-are-priceless\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum volunteers are priceless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An often-repeated phrase in museums, as with so many organizations, is, \u201cWe couldn\u2019t manage without our volunteers.\u201d At the AMA\u2019s National Model Aviation Museum this certainly is the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For us, it begins at the top with the AMA Executive Council\u2014all volunteers who oversee the museum. It is through the council members\u2019 direction that the museum became a reality in the AMA\u2019s old headquarters in Reston, Virginia. They then decided to relocate to the current building in Muncie, Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, direct input about the strategic direction for the museum is provided to the council by the museum\u2019s Steering Committee. Again, composed of volunteers, this committee helps to plan the future of the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A third volunteer committee, the museum\u2019s Acquisition Committee, reviews artifacts offered as donations to the museum. These volunteers have the difficult task of reviewing great models and determining if they should be included in the museum\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many tremendously talented individuals have also supported the museum throughout the years\u2014helping in a myriad of other functions. These tasks have included providing tours and helping staff the museum, providing flight demonstrations during AMA\/museum events, building and designing exhibits, moving aircraft, restoring aircraft, drawing plans for and building reproductions of historic aircraft, helping inventory the museum\u2019s collection, and assisting in collection\/library research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The late Bob Abernathy provides a tour of the museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(L-R): Jim Belknap (deceased), Bob Abernathy, Rich LaGrange, and Tom Gurbach help sort 15,000-plus plans from the John Pond Plans collection, as part of the early days of the AMA Plans Service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim and Bob help sort plans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(L-R): Don Sanqunetti and Tom Gurbach working on a wind tunnel exhibit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Alan Hokenson helps inventory the museum\u2019s magazine collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(L-R): Don Sanqunetti, Alan Hokenson, and Scott Cheslick with their reproduction of the first CL model, the Miss Shirley. Scott built the airplane, Don the landing gear, and Alan helped with the dummy engine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Belknap admires his work on the museum\u2019s theater marquee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Robert Winchester moves an air compressor as part of the restoration shop rework.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Terry Hreno helps with tours and has built reproductions for the museum. He is pictured with his Curtiss-Bleecker helicopter built from a March 1931, Model Airplane News magazine construction article.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(L-R): Don Sanqunetti and Bob Rahe suspend the MQM-170A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After working on the Robert \u201cHoot\u201d Gibson exhibit pictured at right, the volunteers got to meet Hoot. (L-R): Chuck Keith, Hoot Gibson, Jeff Groves, and Phil Conner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Don Sanqunetti and Gary Rice construct an exhibit case.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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John Lorbiecki with his reproduction of Frederick Lanchester\u2019s 1894 twin-pusher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014by Michael Smith, National Model Aviation Museum director<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An often-repeated phrase in museums, as with so many organizations, is, \u201cWe couldn\u2019t manage without our volunteers.\u201d At the AMA\u2019s National Model Aviation Museum this certainly is the case. For us, it begins at the top with the AMA Executive Council\u2014all volunteers who oversee the museum. It is through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[289,288,32,50,287],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donations","tag-models","tag-muncie","tag-museum-2","tag-volunteer-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4806,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions\/4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}