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At the Union County Historical Society annual John B. Deans Dinner and
Program, on Thursday, November 9 at the Lewisburg Club, the Society
presented
two awards for volunteer work that has benefited the Society and the
preservation of our area history.
Emilie
Jansma of State College received the Outstanding Achievement Award
for
generously sharing her knowledge and research on the "Tight End" of
Union County. She has published The Community of Weikert, Pennsylvania:
Homesteads, Cabins and Camps that traces ownership of more than 230
properties, and Louise Goehring Scott's
Oral History Collection, a two-volume, 1200-page transcription of
tape
recorded interviews about life in the west end of the county. Emilie organized Weikert Heritage
Day, the Weikert
History and Genealogical Workshop and the West End
Historic Bus Tour.
Other endeavors include serving as curator of the
Koch Collection of
historical photographs and the Jack & Doris Sapia Collection of
historical
negatives, and serving as co-chairman and instructor of the State
College Oral
History Project.
Hertha Wehr was presented the
Lifetime Achievement Award for her
many years of service to Union County as a community member, farmer,
and
volunteer. Knowledge gleaned from her
30-plus years of dairy farming will be shared in the Historical
Society's Heritage Volume XXII, to be released in
2009. Her interests and experiences
currently inform readers of her column in The
Millmont Times. A major gift of
dairy equipment, supplies and ephemera from the collection of her late
husband,
Karl Wehr, forms the nucleus of the archival dairy material of the
Union County
Historical Society, on whose Board Hertha served. Other
organizations benefiting from her work
include the Vicksburg Library, 4-H Club, Hospice, First Lutheran Church
of
Mifflinburg, Habitat for Humanity, Union County Extension Office and
Planning
Board.
The Society, and our communities,
greatly benefit from the efforts of these women and we thank them for
their
work.
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