The Glen Ellyn His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety is pleased to announce the appoint­ment of Jan Shupert-Arick to the post of Exec­u­tive Direc­tor. Ms. Shupert-Arick was cho­sen from a field of 35 appli­cants after a lengthy eval­u­a­tion process. She brings to this posi­tion an exten­sive back­ground in museum man­age­ment, includ­ing 13 years in museum edu­ca­tion and pro­gram devel­op­ment at the North­ern Indi­ana Cen­ter for His­tory in South Bend and the Lin­coln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indi­ana. Jan has served as the Pres­i­dent of the national Lin­coln High­way Asso­ci­a­tion and the Indi­ana Lin­coln High­way Asso­ci­a­tion. She has expe­ri­ence on the boards of the National Auto­mo­bile and Truck Museum of the U.S. in Auburn, Indi­ana, and has served on the Regional Advi­sory Coun­cil of Indi­ana Land­marks. Her expe­ri­ence also includes edu­ca­tion, preser­va­tion, fund rais­ing, vol­un­teer man­age­ment, mar­ket­ing and mem­ber­ship development.

Ms Shupert-Arick has a BA from Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity and is cer­ti­fied to teach at the high school level in the areas of U.S. His­tory and Psy­chol­ogy. She has pub­lished sev­eral books and numer­ous arti­cles on his­torical top­ics.  Her books include two pub­lished by Arca­dia Press, a well-known pub­lisher of books on local and regional his­tory. In her spare time, she enjoys gar­den­ing and is an Advanced Mas­ter Gardener.

 

 

Fri­day, Novem­ber 25, the Glen Ellyn His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety staged a Pio­neer Christ­mas at Stacy’s Tav­ern Museum. Four high school, junior high and ele­men­tary school girls stepped up to help GEHS Pres­i­dent, Ruth Wright make her vision of a 1840’s Christ­mas Cel­e­bra­tion become real­ity. Eva Metz and Luisa Metz read the “Night Before Christ­mas” to the tour groups in the din­ing room of Stacy’s Tav­ern while Kyra Lane and Marissa Lane played tra­di­tional car­ols on the piano. The audi­ence was invited to sing along and the atmos­phere cre­ated was what Moses and Joanna Stacy would have pro­vided for neigh­bors, trav­el­ers, and friends in the mid­dle 1800’s.

Mean­while at Stacy’s Cor­ners Store, Man­ager Jen­nifer Porter was con­cerned that she needed sales peo­ple to help her with cus­tomers the evening of the Can­dle­light Inter­ac­tive tours. She did not have to worry. Four teens came to her res­cue and spent Fri­day evening clerk­ing at the GEHS store. Molly Her­nan­dez, Matthew,Thomas and Kather­ine Porter all pitched in and helped the Fri­day shop­pers find all the unique and per­fect Christ­mas gifts they needed.

he His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety is open and look­ing for vol­un­teer oppor­tu­ni­ties that the teens of Glen Ellyn can fill. A video of Tav­ern Day was pro­duced by Sam Huf­na­gle, a stu­dent at Glen­bard West High School and will be used to illus­trate to vis­i­tors what the 2011 Tav­ern Day Event included. New com­puter equip­ment is avail­able now to pre­serve archival vol­un­teer times are extremely flex­i­ble. For vol­un­teer oppor­tu­ni­ties call 630–469-1867.

 

Vol­un­teers for the Glen Ellyn His­tor­i­cal Society’s Can­dle­light Inter­ac­tive Pio­neer Christ­mas are left to right: Eva Metz, Luisa Metz, Kyra Lane, and Marissa Lane.

The girls read the beloved story of “The Night Before Christ­mas,” and played the piano for the group singing of famil­iar carols.

 

Help­ing out as clerks at Stacy’s Cor­ners Store on Fri­day, Nov. 25, left to right are: Molly Her­nan­dez, Matthew Porter, Thomas Porter and Kather­ine Porter.