Panama Canal Museum, Inc.
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American experience in Panama Canal Zone
Operate a full service museum containing exhibits, library and archives related to the Panama Canal focusing on the organization's raison d'etre: to collect, articulate, and preserve the story of the American experience in the Panama Canal in order to illuminate a great part of our nation's history. The museum has educational programs presented to school children, libraries, community centers, retirees, and cruise passengers. Educational programs and traveling exhibits linked to State-mandated educational standards. Museum relies on individual donors, corporate donors, gift shop sales, and grants for revenues. The American Era of the Panama Canal ended on December 31,1999, thereby making it imperative to preserve this history before it is lost. Major beneficiaries include descendants of citizens and builders of the Canal from across the globe, the maritime community, military, historians, genealogists, and students.
PANAMA CANAL MUSEUM IN A TRUNK
The Panama Canal Museum has created an innovative program, "Museum in a Trunk", to bring the history of the Panama Canal to our schools. Designated as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World and a Monument of the Millennium by the American Society of Civil Engineers, it is time to share with our children the heroic story of the design, completion and operations of one of the outstanding achievments in the history of the world.
"WHAT IS A TRUNK?" Trunks are used to support the museum's educational outreach program to schools. Trunks include indepth lesson plans (specific to each state) with accompanying PowerPoint presentations, maps, DVDs, books, Canal related artifacts, indigenous and contemporary music. Trunks can be placed in school districts anywhere in the U.S. alowing teachers to use the lesson plans on the Panama Canal to foster discussions in science, mathematics, engineering and social studies. Some of the official presentations of the Panama Canal Museum in a Trunk include: Leon County School District, FL; Manatee County Public School District, FL; Ocean Lakes Elementary School in Virginia Beach, VA; Oyster-Adams Bilingual School in Washington, D.C. The Ambassador of Panama to the US spoke to students about the importance of the Panama Canal at the Washington presentation. The next scheduled presentation is to Holy Spirit Catholic School, Jacksonville, FL; this is the first presentation to a parochial school.
"Write of Passage"
The Panama Canal Museum planned a special program to collect, compile and document the histories of the many families who lived and worked in the Canal Zone andPanama beginning from the outset of the Canal construction period and going through the end of the American Era in 1999. Histories were published in a book entitled, "Write of Passage."
The book has received rave reviews and includes 106 family stories, including contruction day work experiences, Roosevelt Medal holders and descendants, life in the former Canal Zone and in Panama, family relationships, family photos, pictorial journey through the American era of the Panama Canal. The 300-page book's success is due to providing a fascinating glimpse of life in Panama and the former Canal Zone during the years 1904-1999, the American era of the Panama Canal.
West Indian Exhibit
The Panama Canal Museum as part of its series of mini exhibits and programs during the "Year of the Museum" cooperated with Sociedad de Amigos del Museu Afroantillano de Panama/Society of Friends of the West Indian Museum of Panama (SAMAAP) to bring tothe museum in Seminole an exhibit titled "West Indians in Panama during the American Era". The exhibit consisted of photographs that illustrated the themes of: immigration, labor, edcation, religion and family as they pertained to the West Indian community in Panama.
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Panama Canal Museum, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 05/02/2012
President Joseph Wood
Former Director, Office of Executive Admin., Panama Canal Commission
Term: 2008 - 2009
Vice President Patricia kEARNS
Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives; Retired USAF
Term: 2008 - 2009
Gerarde DeTore
Retired USAF; former resident, Panama Canal Zone
William R. Gianelli
Former Chairman, Panama Canal Commission Board
Robert F. Zumbado
Retired LtCol, USMC; former resident, Panama Canal Zone
J. Dorn Thomas
Retired General Electric Co.; former resident, Panama Canal zone
Paul Morgan
Retired, US Army Chaplain; history instructor, Univ of South Florida, former resident, Panama Canal Zone
Thomas R. Goethals
Descendent of George W. Goethals
Robert Dawson
Former Asst Secretary of the Army
Charles Hummer, Jr.
Retired Chief, Dredging Diivision, Corps of Engineers; former resident, Panama Canal Zone
Frank Stevens Hawks
Descendent of John F. Stevens, Chief Engineer of Panama Canal
Paul Glassburn
Retired Executive, GTE, Flolrida; former resident,Panama Canal Zone
Patricia Steiner-Kearns
Retired USAF; former resident Canal Zone
Katherine Egolf
Former educator, Canal Zone Schools and DOD Dependents Schools--Panama; former resident, Panama Canal Zone
Robert McMillan
Former Chairman, Panama Canal Commission Board
LTG, USA (Ret)Dennis McAuliffe
Former CINC, US Southern Command; Administrator, Panama Canal Commission
Shawn Rupp
Prudential Realty Corp; former resident,Panama Canal Zone
Walter Leber
Former Governor, Panama Canal Zone
John P. Coffey
Former resident, Panama Canal Zone
Barbara D Peterson
Former employee, Panama Canal Company; former resident, Panama Canal Zone
Joseph J. Wood
Former Director, Office of Executive Admin, Panama Canal Commission
Richard R Cunningham
Retired Electronic Engineer; former resident, Panama Canal Zone
Robert J. Karrer Jr.
LTC, USA (Ret.); former reisdent, Panama Canal Zone
Barbara Bonanno-Marshall
Retired Panama Canal Commission; former Resident, Panama Canal Zone
Frederick Bremer
G.A. Repple & Co.; Independent advisor. Former resident,Panama Canal Zone