University Daily Kansan, September 12, 1980 Page 9
Institute renews a museum grant, ends another
By JANE NEUFELD Staff Reporter
The Natural History Museum will receive the $35,000 grant renewal in October from the Institute of Museum Services, but a $25,000 'MS grant for Spencer Art Museum will not be renewed.
Spencer Museum has received the grant for the past two years. The Natural History Museum first received the grant last year.
"There are a limited number of grants and a lot of people need and want them," Ruth Gennrich, director of
public education at the Natural History Museum, said yesterday.
Gennrich said grants were given to 45 museums out of more than 1,300 appl
The IMS grant is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and is used for general operating costs of the museums, including education, exhibits and programs to reach the public outside the museum's area.
Museums frequently use the money to hire employees to organize educational programs or exhibits. She said three employees at the museum were paid from grant money. They are in charge of presenting some
museum programs outside the Lawrence area.
Part of the grant is used for traveling expenses for field trips and seminars in local universities.
"Unless somebody can come here from Dodge City or Kismet, there isn't much we can do to serve them," she said. "We will give the grant to go beyond the area here."
Spencer Museum, like the Natural History Museum, has three employees whose salaries come from the grant. They are Sally Hoffmann, coordinator for programs and visitor services; Ann Wiklund, coordinator for development
of new programs; and Larry Schwarm,
museum photographer.
Doug Tuglman, assistant director for administration at Spencer Museum, said the employees would not lose their jobs.
He said the museum was attempting to compensate for the lost money by reorganizing the museum staff.
For example, Tighman said, Dolo Brooking, the former director of museum education at Spencer, resigned last August to take a job in Springfield, Ill. Brooking's job has not been filled.
The rest of the money is coming from changes in the schedules of student
hourly workers and student monthly workers, Tlighman said.
He said the museum was not planning to hire new student monthly workers. The time student hourly workers put in will be cut back, he said, because the museum information desk has been eliminated and some volunteers from the Friends of the Art Museum are working in the bookstore.
One student said the juggling of the staff had cost her a job at the museum.
Stacy Cooper, Kansas City, Kan., senior, said she started working as a staircase worker last May, then went into the hospital in late July because of a virus.
She said that when she came back in mid-August, she couldn't get her job
"They told me not to come back to work because they weren't sure they could pay me," Cooper said. "I wasn't fired, but they told me we were going to re-allocate student hourly money to support Larry Scharm."
Tilgham said precautionary changes were made in the staff organization before they knew for what the museum would not get the grant.
A phone call to the IGS had indicated that the prospects of getting the grant were good.
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