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Come join us for the 15th
Annual Fire Museum Seminar
Dallas, Texas • August 22-25, 2003
• Letter of
introduction • Preliminary
Schedule • Seminar
Registration and Housing Forms •
What is a Fire Museum
Seminar?
It is a balance of formal presentations, informal
discussions, and a tours of local fire and museum
sites. The tours and topics cover both firefighting
history and museum practices. It's a chance for you
to share you problems, and solutions... An
oportunity to see what others museums are doing
(and perhaps what they are not doing but should
be)... It is a opprtunity to compaire yourself and
your organization with others. It is a time to
"network." It is late nights spent spent in a hotel
lobby discussing how many steam fire engines are
left in the country, or the merits of the latest
musuem collections database program. It's great
friends, good food, lots of walking and talking and
a great time all around!
Dear Fire Museum Friends,
I invite you to attend the 15th annual Fire
Museum Network seminar to be held in conjunction
with Fire-Rescue International in Dallas, Texas.
The seminar will be held on August 22-25, 2003,
and will provide programs that should be
beneficial to you in the development and
operation of your fire museum.
Members of the Fire Museum Network met in Dallas
to conduct an extensive review of the
organization and to prepare for this year's
seminar. The program planning committee, chaired
by Scott Simpson of the Texas
State Fire Museum is organizing a superb
seminar agenda including a barbecue dinner at
the Texas Fire Museum.
Our seminar is one of the best that we have
prepared and I am sure you will find that the
topics chosen will pique your interest. The
agenda is being finalized and will be sent to
you in early June. Topics will include apparatus
maintenance and restoration, fund raising ideas
and grant writing, a presentation from our
member museums and visits to local fire
apparatus collections.
If you have not yet become a member of the
Network, remember that members receive a
discount on seminar registration. Please remit
your dues ($50 per museum, $25 per single) to:
Fire Museum
Network
4349 Hillside Road
Slinger, WI 53086
Attendance at the seminar is also the most
cost effective way to visit the exhibits at Fire
Rescue International, with over 400 apparatus,
equipment and related manufacturers in
attendance.
Hotel reservations must be made prior to July
1st. You can always cancel a reservation, but it
is very difficult to make reservations at the
last minute. Your hotel reservation form must
accompany your seminar registration form. I
recommend that you make your housing request now
to avoid disappointment.
Please contact me if you have any questions or
concerns and make plans to come to Dallas and be
a part of this year's program.
Sincerely,
Bob Vallero
Chairman, Executive Committee
e-mail: rjvallero@msn.com
(303) 986-3510 home
(303) 892-1436 museum
The Fire Museum Network's 2003 Executive
Committee:
Bob Vallero, Ted Gerber, Gary Williams, Keith
Franz, Randy Wootton, Jordan Pearl, Tom McDonald,
Jane Rogers
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Preliminary
Schedule for th 2003 Fire Museum
Seminar
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Friday -
August 22th
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Saturday -
August 23th
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Sunday -
August 24th
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Morning
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Arrive Dallas...
Fire-Rescue International Exhibits open at
11:00am
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8:00
am
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Special FMN bus
leaves hotel for Fort Worth
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9:00
am
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Fire Museum
Network Business Meeting (continental
breakfast)
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1:00
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Opening
remarks and Welcome Bob Vallero,
Executive Committee Chair; Steve E.
Abraira, Fire Chief, Dallas Fire Dept;
Scott Simpson, Program Chair
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8:45
am
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Arrive at National Cowgirl Museum.
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10:00
am
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Presentation
of awards
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1:30
pm
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Fund Raising for the Future.
Carey Southwell, Executive Director,
Denver Firefighters Museum.
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9:00
am
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Multimedia presentation
techniques. Jennifer Nielson, Curator,
National Cowgirl Museum.
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11:00
am
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Adjourn for 2003...
See you next
year!
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2:30
pm
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Educational
Possibilities in your Museum. April
Bernard, Educational Coordinator, Denver
Firefighters Museum
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10:00
am
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Study of the display techniques used at
the Ft. Worth Museum of Science and
History
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3:30
pm
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Special FMN bus
departs for Dallas Fire Museum
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10:30
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Textile Restoration and Display.
Renee Tucker, Ft. Worth Museum of Science
and History
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4:00
pm
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Dallas Fire
Museum, tour and
hospitality
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11:30
pm
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Box lunch
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5:00
pm
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Bus departs for the collection of Dr.
Harvey Carter
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12:30
pm
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The Fire Museum Network
Database. Sheila Jarboe, IAFC
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5:00
pm
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Private tour of antique fire
apparatus collection of Dr. Harvey
Carter
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1:00
pm
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Asset Tracking and Accounts
Receivable. Evan Capron, Ph.D
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6:30
pm
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Bus returns to hotel (dinner on your
own)
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2:00
pm
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Preservation of Equipment. Jane
Rogers, Smithsonian Museum of American
History
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3:00
pm
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Buses depart for driving tour of Ft
Worth and return to Dallas
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5:00
pm
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Arrive at Texas
Fire Museum for tour and barbecue
dinner
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Fire Museum Seminar Registration and Housing
Forms
As always, we need you to fill out two separate
forms - a Fire Museum
Seminar Registration Form and a Hotel
Reservations Form. The Fire Museum Network has
a block of 30 rooms being
held at the Wyndham Hotel Dallas Market
Center (located across from the Wyndham
Anatole) that will be held until July 1,
2003. In order to secure a sleeping room, the
attached hotel reservation form must accompany your
seminar registration form. Any rooms not reserved
by Fire Museum Network attendees will be released
back to the hotel on July 1st for other FRI
conference attendees! Remember -- you can always
cancel a hotel reservation, but should the hotel
sell out, it will be very difficult to find
adequate housing.
Please fill in the both the seminar and housing
forms, print them out using your web browser's
"print" command, and mail or fax them in along with
your payment. Unfortunately we can not process any
e-mail reservations from the Fire Museum Network's
web site, and unlike last year, the "Fire Museum
Seminar" is not an option on this year's IAFC
online registration form.
Click here for the
Fire Museum Seminar Registration Form to Fill Out
and Mail In
Click here the Housing
Reservations Form to Fill Out and Mail
In
Mail BOTH the Fire
Museum Seminar Registration,
and the Hotel Reservation Form, along with
your payment to:
Expo Exchange
108 Wilmot Road, Suite 400
Deerfield, IL 60015
1-800-424-5249
(voice, but no credit card orders)
If paying for your Fire Museum
Seminar
registration by credit card, you can
fax your reservation to:
Expo Exchange
Fax: (847) 940-2386
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