Minutes for July 10, 2024 Tilton Historical Society Meeting
Attendence: John Ciriello, Leslie Rose,Kathy Yeo, Roy Cilley, Dan Jordan,Chuck Hussman, Vicki Hussman, Diane Jordan, Patty Amora-Pender. Via Zoom: Al Lockwood and Todd Piper
- Approval of June Meeting Minutes
ByLaw Change
Discussed at the June meeting were changes to the THS Bylaws to add Article XIV - Limitation of Personal Liability of Directors and Officers - to the Bylaws as recommended by the Secretary of State of NH. The article states” No trustee or officer of the corporation shall be personally liable to the corporation for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a trustee, an officer, or both, as the case may be, except with respect to (1) any breach of trustee’s or officer’s duty of loyalty to the corporation, (2) any acts or omissions that are not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law; and (3) any transaction from which the trustee, officer, or both, derived an improper personal benefit.” Meaning that no governing member will be responsible to the Society unless they steal money or property. This change to be voted on by the Board of Directors at a meeting held after tonight’s general meeting. The Board of Directors approved the change. The change must be voted on at the next monthly meeting after a 30 day notice.
Compass Classical, Old Home Day and Dinner with Ben
Compass Classical – Went over scheduled time (over an hour). Great stories and engagement with audience of about 2 dozen people. Members that attended the presentation were all in agreement that it was a very good program."Ben" was entertaining.
Old Home Day – Went well with no rain till 3pm! Our booth was well staffed and we raised $1087. After payments for porta potty, Ben, Michelle the cook and food for the dinner.
Dinner with Ben – Went well. Winners were Steve and Pat Fowler, and Kim Sowles (Tilton Town Clerk and she brought Tilton Selectman, Jon Scanlon.) Kate Saunders cancelled at the last minute due to a health related reason. At 6, John made the executive decision to reach into the tickets and draw a substitute for Kate and Matt since we had paid for the meal already and to give another couple a chance to join in to the celebration. Laura Hill’s name was selected and she brought David Bettencourt, Northfield’s blacksmith.
John donated dinner for Ron and Jen and Howie and Claire on Thursday evening as a “Thank You” and for breakfast the next day for the Society members to meet Ben. Also donated a vintage 1970s china set found at Goodwill for $30 for the office.
Dorothy Gove (Scrapbooks Osborne Drugs bottle, Iona Bank piggy bank, photos and other ephemera in Memory of her mother Audrey Howard)
June Bartlett Estate (Pamphlets and photographs)
Kevin Murphy (Photos and Tilton School patch)
Sue and Chuck Green (Photos, T-N HS Report Cards and T-N HS ephemera)
Donation Forms
John showed the group the accession form and explained the importance of every donation having a completed form, signed and dated by the donor and John. He stated that all accession form should be signed by him to keep record keeping easy and to protect all members from possible accusations by a donor that an item was not acknowledged as received by the Society. John also explained that other area Societies use one person to receive donations. Discussion - Vicki asked will the Society accept all donations - good or bad - or will we be choosey? John's response - he tells everyone to please give all they want then he will decide what to keep and what to return to the donor or to donate. Do we send thank you cards to donors to acknowledge their gift? John's response - he immediately send an email thank you and also recognizes the donation on FaceBook. He has sent purchased thank you cards for very large donations. Someone suggested having THS thank you cards printed and perhaps vintage Tilton postcards to send to donors as a thank you. Vicki asked whathappens to the accession forms once they are completed. John explained that they were put in a folder by accession number making it difficult to locate any particular donation. He said that Kathy has been entering the info into the computer and filing the forms. Kathy explained that the info is entered by number,donor, date and item(s) description. The info is entered into an Excel spreadsheet by number and the forms are filed aphabetically.
Mansion Tours
Tours are scheduled for thefollowing dates:
July 13 – Memorial Service for Deanna (Dee) Leary Stillings noon
July 28 – Class of 1979
Sept 21 – Class of 1969 (Centennial year) 11:00 am
Are any members interested in doing a tour or helping with a tour? Patty and Diane both expressed interest. It was suggested that a tip jar be available.
New Business -
Al reported that the THS website has had apprximately 2000 visits,in the last 30 days there were 202 visits and on GoDaddy.com THS ranks 68! John reported THS has 2200 followerson Face Book.
Meeting Adjourned 6:54PM
Respectfully Submitted,
Kathy Yeo
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