Great Plains Heisey Club

Travel and football made an impact on the crowd at the Great Plains Heisey Club meeting on November 9, 2024.  Fifteen members enjoyed a delicious lunch provided by Jean and Bucky Will and Janet Jones in Leavenworth, Kansas.

 

President John Mock called the meeting to order and we passed the hat for lunch.  The hosts graciously donated the proceeds to the club treasury. John gave a medical update on several of our members.

 

The minutes from the September 14 meeting were approved and Tom gave the treasurer’s report. Tom reminded everyone that he is collecting club dues for 2025.

 

HCA President David Eric Blair contacted the club about donating funds to support the holiday open house at the Museum. The club voted to donate $100 to HCA to help cover the costs of the holiday open house.

 

The nominating committee recommended the following officers for 2025:  Donna Nyght, President, Mary Cameron, Secretary and Tom Files, Treasurer.  There were no nominations from the floor, so we will vote on this slate of officers at the March 15, 2025 meeting. John appointed Eric as program director for 2025 and Eric graciously accepted the role.

 

Eric and Caleb gave a board update. There will be constitution and bylaws updates that will be voted on at the June membership meeting. Martha McGill will be holding Zoom sessions to present the updates and ask for input from the general membership. President David Eric Blair is planning on hosting the first Presidents’ Council meeting in January.  This council is open to the presidents of all the study clubs. A new HCA website is slated for completion in 2025. There is lots of new jewelry items in the gift shop. Eric is working with staff on developing docent cards to assist with tours at the Museum. David Malick continues to add more items from the archives to the Sharepoint drive and he is doing a monthly article on information he has found in the archives.

 

2025 meeting dates and locations were determined.  They are: March 15 – Donna Nyght, May 10 – Lehi and Chris German, July 12 – John and Trudy Mock, September 13 – open, and November 8 – Pat and Rex Lucke.

 

The Great Plains website was down for a week, but is back online.

 

Kelly Bragg won the raffle box.

 

Eric presented a fantastic program on salt bottles (aka shakers). There were a multitude of samples on the program table.
John conducted the 50/50 auction and raffle box auction.

 

There was no shortage of Show and Tell items. Items included were: No. 453 Pussy Willow Vase, No. 4217 Frances Vase in Moongleam, No. 473 Narrow Flute with Rim Pancake Server Set, No. 325 Pillows Squat Sugar, No. 1485 Saturn Cruet in Dawn, No. 6091 Cabochon Ice Tea with 1072 Southwind Cutting, No. 2 Kathy Salad Fork and Spoon, and No. 333 Waldorf Astoria One Pint Water Bottle.

 

The Great Plains Club will meet again on March 15 with Donna Nyght hosting.