Museum directors to meet at CSC

The Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center is coordinating the conference. The sessions will take place in the Sandoz Center and in the Student Center. Community residents and college and high school students are welcome to attend any of the sessions.

The program will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, when Cindy Brick of Castle Rock, Colo., will speak on “Old Quilts—Teach Yourself How to Date and Restore Them.” She reportedly travels the country, teaching and writing on vintage quilt topics. She writes a column, “Old Things Considered.”

Thursday evening, those attending the conference will be given a tour of the Museum of the Fur Trade. They also have been invited to visit the Lover’s Leap Winery in Crawford.

The keynote speaker at the noon luncheon on Friday will be Lisa Eckert, superintendent of Devils Tower National Monument near Sundance, Wyo. Devils Tower became the United States’ first national monument in 1906.

Other speakers and their topics on Friday include:

--Vincent Wincelowicz, former FBI agent and now associated with the Association for Industrial Security, will discuss museum security.

--A panel will speak on museum resources management. The panel members include Raymond Screws, program director of the Nebraska Humanities Council; Dena Sanford, architectural historian with the National Park Service’s National Registry Program; and Theresa Kreutzer-Hodson, Nebraska representative to the Mountain-Plains Museums Association.

--Another panel will speak on “Getting What You Need.” The members will include Pam Price, executive director of the Stuhr Museum Foundation in Grand Island; Joan Wilson, grand development director for the Stuhr Museum; and Gail Potter, director of the Museum of the Fur Trade.

--Friday afternoon, another panel will discuss “Working With Diverse Audiences.”

Those speakers will include Tim Giago, American Indian author and publisher from Rapid City; Sharon Gustafson of Omaha, Sheldon Museum statewide coordinator and recipient of the 2003-04 Museum Educator of the Year award given by the Nebraska Art Teachers’ Association; and Barb Vondras, director of the Dawson County Museum in Lexington.

--Bruce Batterson, chairman of the Business Administration Department at Peru State College, will discuss copyright law.

--Representatives of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who will speak on the development of Internet 2 to handle high speed transmissions of scientific and research data.