Highline Historical Society
Mission
The Mission of the Highline Historical Society is to collect, preserve and tell the stories of the Highline region and its people.
Ruling year
1995
Principal Officer
Mrs. Cyndi Upthegrove
Main address
PO Box 317
Seahurst, WA 98062 USA
EIN
91-1655243
NTEE code
History Museums (A54)
Historical Societies and Related Activities (A80)
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Our programs
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Our major operating programs include establishing a regional museum, publishing significant historical information of local interest, developing and maintaining a large collection of oral histories and photographs of pioneers and descendants of pioneer families as well as immigrant communities, and helping to maintain the historic WWI memorial highway (Des Moines Memorial Boulevard) and monument located in Burien, Washington.
Highline Garden Tour
This tour of area lovely gardens is a collaboration between the Society and Discover Burien (chamber of Commerce), the SeaTac Highline Botannical Garden and the Soroptomist Club. All assist with this fundraising event, which provides several thousand dollars for our operations.
Salute to Pioneers
This is an annual program, a facilitate panel comprised of long time residents of the area. A sample topic for a program might be "What did You Do during WWII?" or "Visiting the Airport in the 1950's." This year's topics will be "Sports!" and will discuss the rise of various Little Leagues, and speak with long time school coaches, talk about church basketball leagues, etc. They are always well attended. We film them and will be able to use excerpts in our new museum. We will be doing our 18th Salute this year.
Preservation Films
An award winning movies about climate change and preserving the planet, or architectural preservation successes This is in line with our mission to preserve our community. Annual Earth Day series
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American Association for State and Local History 2011
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Goals & Strategy
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The goals of the Highline Historical Society are 1.) to build our museum, 2.) to continue to professionalize our operations and 3.)to increase our Board of Trustees membership to more accurately reflect the demographics of our communities.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1. We have just received our building permit for the construction of the Highline Heritage Museum. Groundbreaking will be scheduled when we feel we are financially and organizationally ready to proceed.
2. We now have an outside bookkeeper, an annual audit, a professional Curator of Collections and the Board and staff are completing a self analysis produced by the American Association of State and Local History to prepare us to operate a regional museum.
3. We now have a Nominating Committee that is vetting a list of potential Trustees and will begin discussions with them soon to expand our board to better reflect our entire community.
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What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
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Highline Historical Society
Board of directorsas of 03/31/2014
Mrs. Terry Anderson
Mayor, City of SeaTac
Term: 2009 - 2012
Gary Long
Retired City Manager
Terry Anderson
Mayor, City of SeaTac
Jerry Robinson
Publisher, Highline Times
Fran Reid
Former Board, Highline Community College
Mike Emerson
Retired, The Boeing Company
Kitty Milne
Former Councilwoman/Mayor, City of Burien
Scott Andrews, DDS
Denturist/Local Property Development
Cyndi Upthegrove
Non-Profit Consultant
Lynda Isernio
Manager, Sterling Savings Bank
Lloyd Herman
Retired, Director Smithsonian Inst. (Renwick Galleries)
Mauricio Ayon
Director, Para Los Ninos
Peter Truong
King County Sheriff
Helen Kludt
No Affiliation
Peter Truong
King County Sheriff
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