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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1992 minutes and agenda eccSue Thompson 487 Enfield Center Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-6412 Enfield Commemorative Committee November 24, 1992 Present: Jack Hubbell, Helen Smith, Hilda Amberge, Wilma Fisher, Gary Fisher, Ellie Hobbie, Sue Thompson Helen Smith reported the Nina Linton's family has the quilt and wall hanging for the Commemorative Celebration. Arrangements have been made to finish them. A Memorial Service is being held for Nina Linton on Sunday - 2 pm - Luncheon Dish To Pass. There was discussion on the financing of the Enfield Book. Subscriptions to buying the book was suggested. Need more details on this. Is there a need for advance fund raising for the Enfield Book. There was concern on having a contingency plan, Enfield Town is contributing money what is it going to be used for? The market for where the Enfield book would be sold was discussed. Suggestions were: Logo's Book Store, Corner Book Store, Dewitt Historical Society, Community Events. The committee discussed and voted that there would be no December meeting. The next meeting would be January. There was more discussion on Enfield History. Sue Thompson 487 Enfield Center Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-6412 Enfield Commemorative Committee October 20, 1992 Present: Jack Hubbell, Helen Smith, Hilda Amberge, Wilma Fisher, Gary Fisher, Ellie Hobbie, Sue Thompson There was discussion on changing the meeting date. It was decided and voted on to change the Commemorative Committee Meeting date to the 4th Tuesday of each month - 7:30 p.m., Enfield Town Hall. Jack will send this meeting date to the Ithaca Journal for the date book. Sue wrote an article "The Surrounding of the Baptist Church" The Committee was asked to read over and check for details - corrections. A few corrections were made. Sue left a copy for Jean Owens, Enfield Town Supervisor. The Baptist Church had requested information regarding the buildings surrounding the church. The church membership is applying for a grant to repair the bell steeple on the church. Sue will make corrections and hand out new copies of the article at a later time. A new committee member will be needed to replace Nina Linton's member position. Wilma Fisher's name was suggested. Wilma was not sure and would have to think about it. The committee will ask Helen Smith to check on the qu#,� and wall hanging that Nina Linton and her group were working on. There was discussion on a memorial project that the committee could do for Nina Linton. A memorial page for both Nina and Nora Dodd (past committee member§) could be done in the Enfield History book. Jack suggested we have a picture of the quilt and wall hanging in the book. The rest of the meeting was discussion on history in Enfield. Pat Dougherty 330 Sheffield Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-7095 Enfield Commemorative Committee June 16, 1992 7:30 - 9:00 Present: Sue Thompson (Chairman), Jack Hubbell (Town Historian), Pat Dougherty (Secretary), Nina Linton (Quilt Orchestrater) Fire Central wants house numbers for all Enfield homes. (Topic was not discussed at this meeting.) Sue had an estimate from Lakes Publishing Co. for about $2,000 to do the Enfield history book. 500 were recommended for the first printing. Will be sold for $10 or less. (Trumansburg's book costs $5.00.) Sue will get a more detailed cost breakdown. Helen suggested that we get two estimates for doing the books. Jack gave Sue the cost of a previously printed book. Trumansburg is celebrating it's 200th year --Jack wondered if they were doing a book for the cocasion. Pat suggested doing a "Steve Cobb" type cover page for each chapter of our book. It was mentioned that the cost of that could be quite high. Selling the books at local stores was brought up. Jack discussed the proposed reunion of one/two-room school alumni. Denny Newhart has not gotten anything to him yet. Denny says he will be having shoulder surgery and will have plenty of time to work on this. He would like some help if anyone is willing. (Sharon Brown told Pat that she and Patty Chase Hubbell had compiled a list of the people they knew. Sharon had planned to attend this meeting but something else came up. May be at the July meeting.) An acquaintance of Jack's who works at the school district will check on the status of the letter Jack wrote to Bev Martin about the schools. Alice Laue has offered her assistance with this project wherever necessary. Sue will talk with next year's fourth -grade teachers and ask them to formulate Enfield's school history --possibly as a project. Sue would like to see the Enfield fourth graders (she has a child entering the fourth grade next year) interview local residents as well as collect data. Nina Linton suggested interviewing Frank Spadaro--a former (and the first) principal at Enfield. Pat Dougherty 330 Sheffield Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-7095 Enfield Commemorative Committee May 19,1992 7:30 Present: Jack Hubbell, Pat Dougherty, Helen and John Smith, Nina Linton, Sue Thompson. Sue distributed a booklet called "Your right to know" which outlined the Freedom of Information Law. Helen Smith has received lots of recipes for the 1996 cookbook from Enfield people. Nina announced it at Senior Citizens and asked people to give recipies to Helen or Nina. Helen says the company will take handwritten, smudgy, whatever recipies and organize, catagorize, and put them in final book form. She would like ads --even if they're not paid ads --for historical reasons. Sue would like to coordinate ads with 1996 Enfield History book. Nothing back from Ithaca School Superintendent Lorthridge yet. Jack would like to wait a while before approaching him again. Nothing from Denny Newhart yet about the possibility of a one/two-room school reunion. Jack will contact him. Discussion ensured on the number of schools in Enfield and Jack thought there were up to 14. These should be in the history book with mention made of some of the more prominant and/or local teachers. Lots of discussion about using pictures of local buildings (including the pencil sketch of the Enfield Hotel) and having them made into postcards. Neil Poppensiek has contacted Sue and asked her if she would be willing to write the 20 pages that will represent Enfield in an upcoming Tompkins County book on history. [It appears that Rollison is the correct spelling for that school.] Nina showed us the quilt. Looks great! She and ten other people have worked on it. She'll get their names to the secretary so they will be on record. Helen also showed us a picture of quilters standing in front of the Enfield Valley Grange No. 295 in 1980. Nina was able to identify most of them. Sue reviewed the progress of the Enfield history book. She thinks the size should be 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 and have 16 chapters with approximately 20 pages to a chapter. She thinks 10 or 12 point type would be easy to read. She is in the process of "costing." Helen suggested a shiny cover because of a recent expreience with a boolet with plain white bond that smudged badly when handled. Our committee will edit. Pictures will be included. May 12th meeting on sorting and organizing was attended by Sue Thompson, Jack Hubbell and Jean Scofield. Material needs segregating. Jean Owens would like to find a core group of qualified local volunteers to put the material in order. Jean Scofield says it's very necessary to implement a Records Management System but she does not have the time to do it. Can we apply for an initial grant to have the stuff sorted (inventoried)? Jack and Sue debated that one --we have to check with Jean Scofield. Because we have never applied before, we stand a good chance of getting a grant. Pat asked who would write the proposal --no response. Application has to be in by February. Next step is up to the Town Board --they are the "action agent." There will be an antique car show August 1st and 2nd sponsored by the Fire Department. (Wade Whittaker was the organizer last year.) Sue wants to see an history display --Jack did one last year. Helen Smith suggested Stan Rumsey bring his steam engine. He also has documenting pictures of products made from that steam engine. Helen or Jack will ask Stan. (Pat will be in Ottawa that weekend.) Roger Brown gave Jack his baseball history. Only has one picture at this point. Sue will talk with Cindy Estes -Smith about a logo --still undecided about that and we need to have something to show the public. Helen coming along very well with her history on churches. She will put an "inquiry" in the next newsletter. Helen was very happy to relate an event that happened May 16th. Diane Bassett Nelson of Interlaken called to find out the location of a relative's grave--Auble. Helen was able to lead her directly to it. All parties happy. Pat Dougherty 330 Sheffield Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-7095 Enfield Commemorative Committee April 21,1992 7:30 - 9.00 Present: Jack Hubbell, Pat Dougherty, Helen and John Smith, Nina Linton, Doug and Jean Trenchard, Hilda Amberge, Wilma Fisher, Ellie Hobbie. (Sue Thompson had a conflict of meetings.) Helen Smith brought a picture that the late Louise Rumsey had that looked like a family reunion in 1959. Lot of Rumseys in the picture. Trenchards will take it to Grace SanSoucie Hill (jean's mom) who now lives at the Reconstruction Home. Ellie: "Is Enfield entered in the DeWitt History Fair?" [Helen Smith thinks Sue entered Enfield.] Helen Jackson working on history of 'Pig's Ear; which was a men's social club. She's getting her information from her father's (Harry Willis) diaries. Jack Hubbell wrote to School District Superintendent, Lorthridge about 'History of Enfield and Consolidation of Schools: He said the project was on Bev Martin's desk at this time. Denny Newhart does not have his questionnaire ready yet for distribution. Olivia and Norman Culver had a school desk that they bought from Miranda Cornish —it belonged to Miranda's father. Doris Lovelace has a bell that may have come from an Enfield school. She brings it to Senior Citizens' meetings and uses it when it's time to eat. Nina says she was going to write a history on the Rolson (sp) School for her son Ralph Lovelace. Elma Lokkin Bock (Peterson) wrote to Hilda Amberge about her life and school days in Enfield. Mrs. Bullard was one of the teachers --Gus Lokkin's sister. Jean Owens has scheduled a meeting for May 12th at 7:30 for the community members to listen to a speaker who may be able to help us sort thru "archives material." Enfield may get a grant to put the records in order. Helen Smith and Jack Hubbell have interviewed Stanley Rumsey. They've started talking with Jim Teeter. Jack interviewed his Aunt Hilda (jones) Hubbell. Nina says that she hasn't seen the quilt yet —she's only been home for a week —but she knows that it's well underway. Quilting bee project has not been finalized yet. Need to check with Edith Stoughton on the "wall hanging" project. Edith had it over the winter. Nina would rather see the quilt raffled off closer to 1996 rather than too far in advance. Helen Smith will send Pat Dougherty a copy of the Enfield Historical Society charter members. $2,500 for 1996 celebration now built up in allotment by Town Board. ($500 per year.) Nina wants to know if we have money for a book now. Would like an idea of how much a book will cost. How many will be printed? How much will they be sold fort Hard cover or paper back? Someone mentioned that people don't like advertising in history books. (Helen Smith will check with Sue to see if she has done any "costing.") Jack Hubbell asked what role the Commemorative Committee wants the Historical Society to play in this. Can they be the vehicle to hold the money the Town Board now appropriates each year? Jack says Commemorative Committee can't "handle" money. Ellie says we're not officially chartered yet. Several members said "let's finalize." (ECC is an arm of the Town Board and will be disbanded after 1996.) Only thing lacking is election of officers and paying the required fee. (jean Trenchard will check on financial input of Ulysses Historical Society.) David Bnumberg will be at the Enfield Community Building on May 5th to discuss dealing with the preservation of archival materials. He works at Cornell. Roger Brown told Jack Hubbell that he will write the story of his baseball career. Wilma Fisher had a picture of an Enfield baseball team —with Enfield's name on their shirts, no less. Ellie Hobbie will include barns in her "old houses" category. Helen Jackson's attorney (Bob or Jim Hines) has photos of Jones' store in Enfield Center. Helen will contact him. May be related to Wortman. A J� ' - /tlr', v4_ LI : _c Pat Doughty 330 Sherd Bead r Muck NY 14MI (6l 272-705 Enfield Commemorative Committee March 17, 1992 7:30 - 9:00 Present: Sue Thompson (Chairman), Jack Hubbell (Town Historian), Pat Dougherty (Secretary), Ellie Hobbie, Helen Smith (and John), Wilma Fisher, Hilda Amberge, Doug and Jean Trenchard, Denny Newhart Sue led us through a chapter -by -chapter discussion on the proposed Enfield history book. %/Post Offices were added under Political -Government %/Helen Smith talking with someone about Women's Auxiliary %/Sue asking Leahbelle Carpenter about grange history (Pat had seen Leah earlier and she said she would be happy to do something) %/It was noted that Enfield school was built in 1957 or 1958 v/Helena Schaber working on Senior Citizen's history Wilma Fisher working on Mother's Club Pat sent a thank you note to Carl Taber for the pencil sketching of the old Enfield Hotel. Also gave him the address of the Lodi Historical Society, invited him to the May 5th Historical meeting, and asked if the Lannings he spoke to Jack Hubbell about were related to Scott. Pat took a xerox copy of the pencil sketching to work to show to Sharon Brown who presently lives in the old hotel. Sharon's great -great- grandfather was apparently the artist. Announcement made that the only days you can now do research at DeWitt Historical Society are Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. (Other days by appointment.) Denny spoke of the old "ice house." Property now owned by Scofields. Jack Thall used to use it a lot for his meat business. Pat will ask Carolyn Thall is she can get some Thall/Enfield history from Lawrence Thall who now lives in Elmira. Helen Smith says Mr. Brumburg will be here for the May 5th Historical Society Meeting. Denny Newhart spoke of a reunion of those people who attended the one and two -room schools in Enfield over the years. The idea started with District 6. Helen said there was information on all the schools relative to their whereabouts. Apparently there is a lot of interest. Wilma Fisher has a picture of a class at the Bostwick Corners school. Jean (SanSoucie) Trenchard says she also has school pictures taken from her grandparent's (Emmett and Blanche Tucker) collection. Mrs. Tucker was a schoolteacher hew. M i I l e.'-_ a-,, ue.vs It was suggested that a "starting" reunion be held this September and build from there. Those people who already know about the proposed reunion can meet and plan for a "big" reunion next year. It will be at Newhart's Lodge. A questionnaire was suggested. Also a suggestion to honor those teachers still living. (Warena Ramsey recently had her leg removed in Florida-- -' she was a teacher in Enfield for a long time.) Denny will put something together r and give it to Jack. Pat spoke with Lanny Clark about the Boy Scouts in Enfield. His dad, Harold Clark was a charter member and very active through the years. Lanny, Pat, and Mel Schilling will get some of the membership books together from different troops and a mailing will be done to some of the people and hopefully they will add to the history. Lanny will ask his mother for any old memorabilia of his dad's scouting days that she might have saved. fP: 1 An eztensrve repair bb , for Enfield cemeteries_, This last year an extensive effort to restore the cemeteries in the Town of Enfield: was started by 'John and Helen Smith. They spent many hours remov- ing and piling brush before obtain -1 ing a ssistance:frotn RobertCornittg_q and his Probation Department crew through the Community Service Program. The bumps and humps were lev- eled with eight loads of donated topsoil. Five loads were donated and -delivered by Ralph Carpenter Jr., and three load's' were donated' Some stones have'been.repaueus and reset. __ ;,, - . 'On 'behalf;ofg`[�ip eoncerned, with the condition ofEhfield ceme- aeries, thank, you, Robert Corning and, crews,L Robert ;Linton. and Ralph' Carpenter Jr. A sp6cial thank-Y6u—to JohA4*dr,'ffelen- Smith. M. Clyde Hubbell Town historian' Enfield