In
addition to their duties at Stuhr, our staff members have won
awards, been honored by various organizations, are active members
of their communities, and are just far-out fun, neat-o interesting
people! We'd like to share some of the cool and unique things
about our Stuhr Staff Superstars with you!
(Year
indicates the year of hire for that staff member.)
Joe
Black '97, Executive Director
- Wrote
and received GOS IMLS Grant
- Coach
for Speech Team at Hastings College, which has finished in the
top 20 in each of the last 6 years
- Funny
factor: Presented a scholarly paper with "flaming jackrabbits and burning cow chips" in the title.
- Collections:
Marvin the Martian stuff, art of Dru Blair
- Shameless
addiction: Mt. Dew, X-Box, M*A*S*H
- Hobbies:
Reading, (Sci-fi, Modern History of former Central Asian Soviet Republics), Movies, Speech
- Unique
talent: Scary ability to identify 80's songs, mini-golf short game
- First
job: Gopher at family business
Steve
Stump '03, Director of Finance and Human Resources
- Vintage
Base Ball Player (hurler)
- Former
Rugby Football player and referee
- Referees
for: GI City League volleyball, YMCA soccer
- Says
he "Needs a Vacation!"
- Funny
factor: Worked at Stuhr Museum in the 70s as a Railroad
Worker
- Collections:
Crap in my basement
- Shameless
addiction: Volleyball
- Hobbies:
Disc Golf
- Unique
talent: Plays the recorder and the guitar (sort of!)
- First
job:
Helped build a garage with my dad to earn enough money to
buy a bicycle
Tom
Oshlo '99, Facility Manager
- An
inspector who certifies welders for a national organization
- Funny
factor: Granddaughter
- Collections:
Guns and tools
- Shameless
addiction: Boat, black powder rifles
- Hobbies:
Fishing, muzzleloading
- Unique
talent: Built earth lodge, windmill reconstruction
- First
job: Skagway carry-out boy
Kay
Cynova '89, Director of Historical Interpretation
Karen
Keehr '00, Curator of Research
- Chooses
the historic photograph published weekly in the Grand Island
Independent from the Stuhr Museum Archives
- Webmaster
for the Nebraska Museums Association since 2000, http://www.nebraskamuseums.org
- Western
Trails grant recipient, digitized 700 of images for website
- Published
in the Southern New Mexico Historical Review (Volume 7, No.
7) with the article "U.S. Air Power in Mexico during the
Mexican Punitive Expedition of 1916."
- Received
the 1999 Ira Clark Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in
History at New Mexico State University
- 1998-1999
Vice President of the Rho Zeta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta National
History Honorary
- Received
Second Place in the United States History, Graduate category
at the Third Annual UTEP/NMSU Joint Phi Alpha Theta History
conference in 1999 for the paper "Sex had Everything to
Do With It: Mae West and Hollywood Production Codes, 1932-1943"
- Studied
abroad at Sunderland University, Sunderland, Great Britain in
the Spring of 1993, my freshman year at Winona State University
- Was a registered
breeder of Silver Martin and English Lop rabbits with the American
Rabbit Breeders Association while in high school
- Funny
factor: Will never admit my true hair color
- Collections:
Do shoes count?
- Shameless
addiction: Shoes, clothes, jewelry, chocolate
- Hobbies:
Shopping
- First
job: Car Hop at the Mug Drive-In in Mora, Minnesota
Leslie
Vollnogle '98, Curator of Collections
- Member
of Grand Island Literacy Council Board
- Past member
of Phi Alpha Theta and Pi Gamma Mu
- Collections:
Family photos
- Shameless
addiction: Ancestry.com
- Hobbies:
Genealogy, camping, traveling including to cemeteries
- First
job: Cashier at Eisners
Martha
Paulsen '01, Visitor Services Director & Volunteer Coordinator
- A Datatel
National Scholarship winner
- Student
representative for Central Community College's fund drive
- Funny
factor: Shot a bear when I was 10, used to sing in a band
- Collections:
Old blues and jazz tunes, Santa Claus figurines, books
- Shameless
addiction: Diet Pepsi, Chinese food
- Hobbies:
Computer games (Literati, The Sims, Might and Magic), Reading
- Unique
talent: My kids think I'm funny...funny haha, or funny weird
is yet to be determined.
- First
job: Stripped Cascara trees for their bark. Side note -
Cascara is used to stop diarrhea
Dawn
Danner '04, Administrative Assistant, Visitor Services & Education Depts.
- Funny Factor:
Andy and I were married in Vegas, but neither of us received a
million dollar offer.
- Collections:
New Vehicles and Dogs (English Mastiff, Newfoundland, Siberian
Husky, Alaskan Malamute and Golden Retriever)
- Shameless
Addictions: Tanning, bubble baths and romance novels
- Hobbies:
Volleyball - remembering glory days playing (Motherlode, Destin
Florida, KC,...) and taking trips to Las Vegas
- Unique Talent:
Cleaning up dog runs
- First Job:
Worked at a Tanning Hut
Pamela
L. Price '00, Executive Director, Stuhr Museum Foundation
- 1992 BPW
"Woman of the Year"
- 2002 Grand
Island Independent "Woman of the Year"
- Funny
factor: Married 37 years to junior high school sweetheart
Hank Price. Used to meet at the Grand Theatre and the Coney
Island for "dates" in the 8th grade
- Shameless
addiction: Shopping and Chocolate
- Hobbies:
Spending time with grandchildren--Abby, Colin, and Benjamin
- Unique
Talent: Pianist: Accompanied the Messiah and musicals--Show
Boat, South Pacific, and Oklahoma--under the director of Jack
Learned, former Stuhr Museum director and Grand Island Senior
High music teacher
- First
job: 7th
and 8th grade history and English teacher at Everett Junior
High School, Lincoln NE. (Everett Junior High's "Claim
to Fame"--Charlie Starkweather's alma mater
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