Autumn 2015 Newsletter - Childrens Museum of Oak Ridge

UPDATE! October 2015
Explore & More at
Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge
461 West Outer Drive
Tues – Fri: 9:00 AM– 5:00 PM
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Sat: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Phone: (865) 482-1074
Sun: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
www.childrensmuseumofoakridge.org
Edited by Pam Williams
[email protected]
Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and your contribution will be proportionately taxdeductible. For additional information on becoming a gala
sponsor, please contact Mary Ann Damos at 482-1074, ext.
104.
Individual tickets are $125. Purchase your ticket by
November 13th and save $25!
Gala Sponsors
as of September 17, 2015
Great Smoky Mountains National Park - $5,000
Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC
Grand Ole Opry - $2,500
Graceland - $1,500
UT-Battelle
Dollywood - $1,000
Information International Associates
UCOR
Dogwood Arts Festival - $500
Enrichment Federal Credit Union
Nick and Pat Imperato
Lee and Dennis McGetrick
MS Technology, Inc.
ORNL Federal Credit Union
Strata-G
Pam and Paul Williams
Children's Museum of Oak Ridge
Imagination Station Intersession
Camps—Autumn 2015
To register, call 482-1074; or visit our website:
www.childrensmuseumofoakridge.org
October 5th – 9th
Mud Pies Ages 5-8, 9 AM-noon, October 5th – 9th, Members: $125, Non-Members: $135
Explore ways to build and make unique works of art. Use
pinch and coil techniques to make wacky creatures from
your imagination. Explore the garden to create pieces
from nature. Hand-build a funky mask to hang on your
wall. Then combine your skills to make an amazing one-ofa-kind creation. Limit 12.
Cookin’ in the Kitchen with Kids K-3rd grades, 1-4 PM,
October 5th – 9th, Members $125, Non-Members $135
Come hungry and make fun, kid-friendly recipes while
practicing kitchen safety and learning cooking fundamentals. Prepare several breakfast dishes, and create Mexican,
Italian, and Asian recipes. Come with your apron and
closed- toe shoes to camp! Limit 12.
Kids Go Green! “Explore The Green World Around You”
3rd-4th grades, 9 AM-noon, October 5th – 9th, Members:
$125, Non-Members: $135
Explore the natural world: discover the balance we need
to have to be in harmony with nature. Learn to understand the need to live in a healthy environment through
Kids Go Green’s eco-action. Limit 10.
International Cooking 4th – 7th grades, 9 AM-noon, October
5th – 9th, Members: $125, Non-Members: $135
Take a culinary journey around the world without leaving
the kitchen! Prepare different recipes from different cuisines
around the world: Italy, France, India, Greece, and China.
Limit 12
CLOSED—Jazz Pop 4th-7th grades, October 5th -9th, 1-4 PM,
Members: $125, Non-Members: $135
Join Danya Spratling to learn basic dance steps and learn a
routine. Make a hip hop hat. Move those feet with Jazz Pop,
and for Halloween create a dance to “Thriller” and “I’m a
Monster.”
Spin Me a Tale Ages 9-12, 1-4 PM, October 5th-9th, Members: $125, Non-Members: $135
Learn the basics of throwing on the pottery wheel. Discover
ways you can tell stories by using etching and stenciling
techniques on your clay pieces. Examine how storytelling on
clay vessels has been used throughout history and draw inspiration from it. Limit 5
Build Your Own Bear Ages 8-12, 3-5 PM, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, October 5, 7 & 9, Members: $50 NonMembers:$60
Create and design your own hand-sewn stuffed bear. Cut
your pattern, choose your fabric, cut out your bear shape
from the fabric, and pin it together. Hand-sew the bear, turn
it right-side out, and stuff. On Friday create the face; finish
sewing to take home. Don’t forget a name! Limit 8.
October 10th – Special Saturday event
Kids in Action! Join exercise guru Leah Chance and get your
groove on! Move those feet and work up a sweat; then go
on a scavenger hunt in the garden for a cool down. Play
games while you learn about nutrition, burning calories, and
what foods to eat before you exercise.
Date: October 10, 2015
Time: 10:30 AM-noon or 1-2:30pm
Ages: 1st-4th grades
Location: Gym
Fee: Free with cost of admission
Limit: 20
October 12th -16th
Expressions K-3rd grades, 9 AM-noon, October 12-16, Members $125, Non-Members $135
Dip your brush into the artistic palettes of some of the great
artists who dared to be different: Kandinsky, Herring, Picasso, Braque, and Pollock. Each day engage in art in a new way
as you experiment, play, and create connections between
your own creative explorations and the ideas and techniques
of these artists. Limit 15.
Creepy Cooking K-3rd grades, 9 AM-noon, October 12th –
16th, Members $125, Non-Members $135
Don’t let a carved pumpkin be the only frightening food you
display this Halloween. These super-scary eats and treats are
perfect for a frightening Halloween feast. Want to make
more delicious and devilish bites? Whip up some spooky
veggies and dip, Freaky Fingers and Ghouls Brew, snake
bites, Hootwiches, Zombie toast, and more. Limit 12.
Fall Clay Ages 5-8, 1-4 PM, October 12th – 16th, Members:
$125, Non-Members: $135
Hand-build a pumpkin, spooky bat wind-chimes, ghost foot,
mask, candy dish, and monster pot sculpture. Glaze your
pieces and have them fired in time for Halloween. Limit 12.
Spooktacular Clay Ages 9-13, 9 AM-noon, October 12th –
16th, Members: $125, Non-Members: $135
Hand-build spooky pumpkins, ghosts, cats, masks, monster
sculpture, candy dish, and more. Glaze your pieces and have
them fired in time for Halloween. Limit: 12
Jazz Pop 4th-7th grades, 1-4 PM, October 12th -16th, Members: $125, Non-Members: $135
Join Danya Spratling to learn basic dance steps and learn a
routine. Make a hip hop hat. Move those feet with Jazz Pop,
and for Halloween create a dance to “Thriller” and “I’m a
Monster.”
Haunted by Cooking! 4th – 7th grades, 1-4 PM, October 12th
– 16th, Members: $125, Non-Members $135
Create scary treats for fall: yummy lungs, finger food, and
intestines to drink your bloody hand punch with. How about
some blood slide suckers or earwax on a swab! Come join the
festivities in the kitchen for creepy cooking! Limit 12.
Special Preschool Classes
Preschool Kids in Action! Join Frances Gross in the Gym for a
workout. Play games like Hungry, Hungry Hippo; Walk, Run,
Hop Like an Animal; Row Your Boat; Ring Around the Rosy;
the Marshmallow Game; and Sponge Ball Kick and Throw
Games.
Date: October 20th or 22nd
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Ages: 3-5 with an Adult
Fee: Free with Admission
for exhibits and programs and bring information about
the museum and its activities back to their school. This
year the YAC program is being led by our education
director, Lorraine Bowen. The first meeting was held
on September 23rd and included planning for the fall
festival, science activities, and games.
2015-2016
Youth
Advisory
Council
September 23: Meet in the Environmental Learn-
ing Center & Garden. Get acquainted and snack. Determine what interest/ activity to pursue at the museum to present in the spring Tour the museum for
ideas. Discuss the upcoming fall festival in October.
Organize science activities and games. Schedule sign
-up: decorating, science activities, games & exhibits.
3-5pm
October 28: Settle on a project to take up. Spli
into groups for each aspect of the project. Set up
science activities, exhibit decorations and games for
fall festival. 3-5pm
November 18: Continue working on project, re-
port from each group. Look at materials the museum
Has to offer for the project. Plan ativities for the
Polar Train Adventure in December. Sign-ups for
decorating and activities. 3-5pm
December 16: Report from groups on the project.
Establish where the project will be held in the museum and finalize a date. Get approval from the museum for project. Finish last minute details for Polar
Train Adventure. 3-5pm
January 27: Continue working on project. Finalize
advertising and does money need to be raised for the
project?
Our policy for registration :
Payment in full is required to register your child for a
camp/class/workshop. Camp/class/workshop fees are
fully refundable until fourteen days before the start
date. Refunds will not be given for absences or "noshows." We reserve the right to cancel a class due to
low enrollment. Fees for classes cancelled by the museum will be fully refundable.
Winter snow policy:
2015 Imagination Station Summer
Camps Challenge Young Minds!
Imagination Station 2015 drew participants from all
over the region. Children participated in sessions about
trains, cooking, art, music, science, pottery, and gardening. More than 60 camps were offered, including
School of Medicine, Jedi Training, Painnting and Photography, and Claymania. We are grateful to our teachers and volunteers and to education director Lorraine
Bowen for a successful season. See pages 2 and 3 for
information about fall intersesssion camps!
Our winter snow policy follows that of the Oak Ridge
School System: if Oak Ridge schools are closed for a
snow emergency, the museum is closed and classes
are cancelled. If museum classes are cancelled due to
inclement weather, they will be made up or rescheduled. The safety of our visitors is our primary concern.
Youth Advisory Council News
The Youth Advisory Council Program is beginning its
42nd year. Hundreds of Oak Ridge City School’s students from four elementary schools, two middle
schools, and Oak Ridge High School have been active in
the YAC over the years. Each year, students offer ideas
Knoxville Opera Company performs for campers on Wonderful
Wednesday.
Kids in Action!
Our mascot, Peppy Pepper, wants
everyone to know how excited
we are about the progress being
made on the new Kids in A ction!
initiative.
Dennis McGetrick and his friend
Guy have been building walls,
putting up sheetrock, and painting in the new Healthy Living
room.
This past summer we offered four sessions of “Kids in
Action! The Great Green Adventure” to Imagination Station Summer Camp participants, and in October we will
have four sessions of fun healthy living activities that will
include exercise and games.
Watch our website and social media pages for news and
updates on this important new venture.
Five Special Gifts
By Margaret Allard
Would You Like To Be a CMOR Volunteer?
By Margaret Allard
Museums can’t manage without the support of their volunteers! We have very loyal volunteers, but every year
we lose people to moves or to medical problems. Volunteering is a way to get out of the house and meet new people while doing a great service to the community. We
need more of you to come see us and find out about all
the opportunities here. We are especially in need of people to work as front desk receptionists, people with experience with power tools and general carpentry ability, and
people who want to work on exhibits under the supervision of a staff member. Also, the education department is
looking for volunteers as well. The minimum commitment is about four hours per week, but many individuals
work more than that. We have spots for all different abilities, and we can find a place for you. If you are interested in being a volunteer, please call Lorraine Bowen at the
museum (482-1074), and we can discuss your interests.
Kayoko Neumann, visiting fr om J apan, came to the
Children’s Museum in May with her mother-in-law, Linda Neumann, to donate a beautiful collection of Japanese
dolls and objects that make up the traditional Hina doll
set. The set was a gift to Kayoko and her sister, Sonoko,
in the 1970’s from their grandfather, Matsuo Takagi. The
dolls and furniture are large and we plan to display them
when we can build a case that can hold the complete set.
Thank you to volunteers: I' d like to thank Dennis
McGetrick for volunteering to sheet rock and finish the
windows and outer wall in the downstairs workroom. It is
such an improvement! Dennis and his friend Guy have
also been working on sheet rocking, painting and building
walls in the future “Healthy Living” exhibit room.
I'd also like to thank Harvey Towns of the Appalachian
Frame Shop in Grove Center for building and setting up a
big table top for our new matte cutter in the downstairs
workroom. He also ordered and installed the cutter and
showed us how to use it. How wonderful it is to have that
new tool.
Girl Scout Doll Exhibit
We now have a new addition to the Girl Scout exhibit in
the hallway: a separate case for displaying our vintage
Girl Scout dolls. We are also working on creating guidelines for a "Doll Collector" patch that area Girl Scouts
will be able to earn at the museum.
B.B. Blevins, a for mer Oak Ridger who now lives in
California, has donated possibly the only remaining original copy of the Fred Ford book, A City is Born, published
by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1961) about the
Incorporation of Oak Ridge in 1959. Along with that
book came one of Fred Ford’s original manuscripts. The
manuscript contains corrections and doesn’t include the
photographs that illustrate the published book. B.B. also
donated the separate original Appendix to A City is Born,
also published by the U.S. AEC. These books will be
displayed in the Difficult Decisions exhibit as soon as a
display case is built. Facsimiles of the book, A City is
Born, have been made available by the Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association (ORHPA) and can be
purchased directly through them or at the Children's Museum gift shop.
In the News: Jim Cole
By Margaret Allard
Mary Sue Davis and her sister, Alma Hampton, have
donated some of their childhood treasures from the 1930s
and 1940s. They include two beautiful composition dolls,
doll furniture made by their father, a 20-piece doll's milk
glass tea set, and a beautiful “Dutch Doll” quilt made by
their mother in the 40s.
We were happy to display a doll collection donated by
Jerry Wall Luckmann. The two dolls were given to
Jerry and her sister, Marjorie Wall Terhune, in the 1950s,
and they have a whole wardrobe of matching outfits beautifully made by their grandmother, Ethie McClellan
Thomas. Jerry’s donation to our collection also included
many other dolls, dollhouses, and accessories which will
be displayed in the future.
We have been given a wonderful doll-size antique cast
iron stove fr om the estate of Ellen Pr ober t Williamson
of Kingston. It is a 1/4 model of an 1895 stove. In the
1920s Ellen's father converted it to a working gas stove so
she could actually cook with it. It comes with all sorts of
vintage accessories such as a coffee pot, a waffle maker,
and lots of pots and pans. The stove is now displayed in
the cases outside the Dollhouse Room. Come see it the
next time you are at the museum!
On the third of September, the Knoxville News Sentinel
featured Jim Cole of Oak Ridge on pages 1 and 10 in section D. Jim is 97 years old and is one of the original men
of the S.E.D. (Special Engineer Detachment), which was
created by the U.S. Army during WWII to supply the
Manhattan District with highly educated and technically
trained persons. The article mentions that Jim's original
S.E.D. coat is on display at the Children's Museum. We
are very proud to have this rare artifact that is part of Oak
Ridge's history. Jim also collaborated with CMOR several years ago when we did a display on the S.E.D. at the
Secret City Festival. Jim is a true patriot as well as a wonderful person and philanthropist, and he’s a good friend of
the Children’s Museum! Congratulations, Jim!
CMOR plans 2016 International
Festival
Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge brings the world to
Oak Ridge each year through its popular International
Festival. The festival in 2016 is set for Saturday, February 20th, from 10 AM to 4 PM.
People interested in participating in the festival or in
sponsoring this special event are urged to contact the museum at 482-1074.
CMOR Welcomes New Staff
We welcome to our staff
Jaclyn Waymire. Jaclyn
has been with us for the
past three summers but
has now joined us on a
permanent basis as executive administrative assistant.
Jaclyn majored in physics at UT, with a concentration in astronomy, and
would love to help
CMOR acquire a planetarium. She currently is
taking flying lessons in her spare time. In 2007 she spent
a month in Japan and visited Hiroshima. To work in the
city where the atomic bomb was born and to see the city
where it was first used have given Jaclyn a unique perspective on this piece of history.
Our new weekend staffers are Ashley Taft and Samantha
Sutton. Ashley graduated from UT with a major in plant
sciences, concentrating on organic production. She plans
to pursue a master’s degree in the near future. She was
also in the first graduating class of the UT Culinary Institute and has worked in several restaurants, including the
Orangery. Her hobbies include hula hoop dancing, gardening, reading, and searching for new music.
Samantha currently is studying to be a paralegal and is
applying to UT Law School. She volunteers with Friends
of Literacy, tutoring adult learners. Samantha is originally from Memphis.
Kids Go Green! News
By Bucky Smith
Kids Go Green! Environmental Center and Gardens:
Our Kids Go Green! educational program is an instruction
plan that is dedicated to the proposition that our backyard
is the ecological center of our communities and our lives.
How we understand our natural personal space is the key
to understanding the ecological world around us and
learning how we can improve the world one home at a
time. Our children will learn how conservation works, on
a personal level, by planning and planting a garden bed
plot for a future user while harvesting a previous garden
group’s work. Here at the Children’s Museum of Oak
Ridge we call this form of garden practice “progressive
gardening,” growing things for a future group while harvesting the fruits of labor from others. In addition, the
program teaches children about “Healthy Living”,
“Shades of Green” art in nature, and the path from garden
to fork and instills healthy eating habits that can last a
lifetime.
surveys, on-site and online. Outreach program participants, students and teachers, will receive written and verbal surveys to determine the program's impact.
September 2015
Working on Kids in A ction! Traveling Trunks development with Education Director.
Youth Advisory program conducted again this year
serving about 18 children.
Kids Go Green! general maintenance and upkeep of
the facility. This fall our biggest challenge is
defending the site against infestation and disease of trees and plant life.
Have started the construction of the Kids in A ction!
Healthy Living Exhibit and implemented the
Kids in Action! Healthy Living program activities summer and fall 2015.
Wednesday’s Willow Brook Explorers Eco Ed/garden
program started its schedule and is ongoing.
No Master Garden interns for the summer and fall
programs.
After-school will begin its Jr. Master Gardener program in October 2015 and will be planting
cold weather plants: broccoli, cabbage, kale,
red cabbage and mixed greens.
Re-contacted the UT Extension office about Master
Gardeners support - none at this time.
Carroll Welch Retires
Longtime Deputy Director Carroll Welch retired at the
end of May. Carroll served the museum with great dedication - planning events, organizing maintenance of the
building and grounds, coordinating volunteers, and having responsibility for both After School Club and Youth
Advisory Council.
We miss Carroll greatly but are happy to report that she is
enjoying retirement, with opportunities for travel, a wonderful new grandson, and a new dog, too!
Kids in Action! is a sister program to Kids Go Green!. Its
intended results are to promote and encourage healthy
lifestyles for families and children through a Kids in A ction! healthy living exhibit and supporting programs that
include in-house classes, day camps, museum after-school
programs, outreach programs to area schools, and teacher
workshops. An Outreach Healthy Living Kit (trunk) will
be created and available for museum outreach presentations and classroom teacher use.
The exhibit and its accompanying programs will provide
tools and opportunities to reduce childhood obesity
through fun, positive activities and projects that support
healthy nutrition. Results will be measured with the assistance of an outsider evaluator, using verbal feedback and
Carroll Welch with Darrell Akins at the May 14th meeting of Rotary
Club of Oak Ridge. Carroll received the 2015 William T. Sergeant
Vocational Service Award. from the club.
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CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF OAK RIDGE
Autumn 2015 Donation Form
Play. Learn. Grow.
I would like to help the museum grow by making a tax-deductible contribution in the following amount:
$35
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Selma Shapiro Education Fund
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