Pam Mickelson, President's Message
Photo credit: Fred Year
MARCH, 18, 2020
We are in unparalleled times - and museum life will change for a bit. WE ARE CLOSING TEMPORARILY EFFECTIVE Thursday, March 19, 2020.
While we have a number of plans for 2020 with new events and as well as continuing a tradition of our favorites, we are pausing to take care of each other. The Center for Disease Control are providing guidelines to decrease density and lower the curve for spreading the virus. We are abiding by the most safest of the Iowa guideposts and CDC recommendations.
2019 Year in Review
January - March - Strategic discussions with neighbors and leaders in the community.
April - Car Show and Pancake Breakfast with Hangar Talks
June - Our very first Tennis Shoes on the Tarmac STEM camp for 3rd - 5th graders
July - Open House honoring the 30th anniversary of the crash of United Flight 232
August - The Ghost Squadron B24/B29 from Dallas Commemorative Air Force / Air History Power Tour brought FIFI, the B29 Superfortress to SUX. Wow. What a week!
August - Big Band Dance with Meryl Lake Orchestra
Summer - Tour your own Home Town
October - Fall Fest celebration weekend with the City of Sioux City.
November - MidWest Honor Flight Hangar Dance.
The FedEx is on track to open in 2020 thanks to a MRHD grant.
A set of books and shelves are going up for a Research Library.
Gilchrist Foundation has partially funded a Tuskegee Airmen and WASP exhibit - we will schedule it as soon as is safe to do so.
The 232 garden will get moved to a 'non flood zone' on the property.
An Antique Tractor Show and Swap meet in the works.
The April 4 Car show -- will be sometime this summer or fall.
Tennis Shoes on the Tarmac STEM camp will be delivered at a later time.
All of these initiatives are part of our long-term plans to host events that highlight our holdings, seek grants to expand exhibit and educational opportunities, and place the museum in a positive financial ground.
The picture with Fifi and I still makes me smile! Please email me at mickelson@morningside.edu if you have any questions or just want to visit about museum operations.
- Pamela L. Mickelson, Board President at the Mid America Museum of Aviation & Transportation, Retired Professor of Business at Morningside College
We are in unparalleled times - and museum life will change for a bit. WE ARE CLOSING TEMPORARILY EFFECTIVE Thursday, March 19, 2020.
While we have a number of plans for 2020 with new events and as well as continuing a tradition of our favorites, we are pausing to take care of each other. The Center for Disease Control are providing guidelines to decrease density and lower the curve for spreading the virus. We are abiding by the most safest of the Iowa guideposts and CDC recommendations.
2019 Year in Review
January - March - Strategic discussions with neighbors and leaders in the community.
April - Car Show and Pancake Breakfast with Hangar Talks
June - Our very first Tennis Shoes on the Tarmac STEM camp for 3rd - 5th graders
July - Open House honoring the 30th anniversary of the crash of United Flight 232
August - The Ghost Squadron B24/B29 from Dallas Commemorative Air Force / Air History Power Tour brought FIFI, the B29 Superfortress to SUX. Wow. What a week!
August - Big Band Dance with Meryl Lake Orchestra
Summer - Tour your own Home Town
October - Fall Fest celebration weekend with the City of Sioux City.
November - MidWest Honor Flight Hangar Dance.
The FedEx is on track to open in 2020 thanks to a MRHD grant.
A set of books and shelves are going up for a Research Library.
Gilchrist Foundation has partially funded a Tuskegee Airmen and WASP exhibit - we will schedule it as soon as is safe to do so.
The 232 garden will get moved to a 'non flood zone' on the property.
An Antique Tractor Show and Swap meet in the works.
The April 4 Car show -- will be sometime this summer or fall.
Tennis Shoes on the Tarmac STEM camp will be delivered at a later time.
All of these initiatives are part of our long-term plans to host events that highlight our holdings, seek grants to expand exhibit and educational opportunities, and place the museum in a positive financial ground.
The picture with Fifi and I still makes me smile! Please email me at mickelson@morningside.edu if you have any questions or just want to visit about museum operations.
- Pamela L. Mickelson, Board President at the Mid America Museum of Aviation & Transportation, Retired Professor of Business at Morningside College
Our Board Members and Executive Director
Pamela Mickelson
President and Director of Marketing
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Larry
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Col. Bud Nelson
Director Emeritus
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Ray Edgington
Director and Past President
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Mike Roberts
Director
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Suzanne Bartels
Secretary and Director of Education
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