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Minutes
July 11, 2017
Spm
Present: Carole Hinshaw, Vice Chairman
Jim Lee
Pasha Baker
Valada Flewellyn
Alicia Clarke, Museum Curator
Absent: Patty Williams
Francis Oliver
Joyce Qualls
Donna Peterson
The meeting was called to order at 5:16PM by Vice -Chairman Hinshaw.
The minutes of the April 11, 2017 meeting were approved as written.
Old business:
Ms. Clarke updated the board on Tim Raines' induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. No
celebration has been planned by the City of Sanford so far. It is possible something is being
planned for later in the year. The board members expressed frustration that the City was not
paying enough attention to this important event. Ms. Clarke said the Sanford Historical Society
had purchased a number of memorabilia items from the Hall of Fame to go in a temporary exhibit
in the museum lobby. These items will then be placed in the permanent Raines display in the
Chase Gallery. Ms. Hinshaw offered to help with the lobby exhibit.
Ms. Clarke said the project to design and print a promotional rack card for the Welcome Center
has been turned over to the Sanford Historical Society.
Ms. Clarke said the effort to move the Chamber of Commerce flagpole/cannon has been changed
to a request for the DAR chapter to place an historical marker next to the flagpole. She is going
to ask about putting an historic marker like the ones on Sanford Avenue next to the flagpole.
Ms. Flewellyn asked about the condition of the historic signage along the waterfront. Ms. Clarke
said she would check on this.
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New business:
Ms. Clarke noted that the only advisory board meeting that Christine Kinlaw Best ever missed
was the April meeting shortly before she died. The board had a moment of silence for her. Ms.
Clarke said Ms. Best was one of the longest serving members.
Ms. Clarke announced the board's secretary, Julie Ellenburg Maring, had retired. Ms. Clarke said
she had been indispensable for the museum's administrative tasks. The board suggested she be
considered as a possible board member.
Ms. Flewellyn suggested the museum purchase the book Forgotten Heroes: 1840-1925 Police
Officers Killed in Early Florida. The Percy Baylis case is mentioned in the book. Bayliss was
convicted of killing deputy Cleve Jacobs and was executed in downtown Sanford in the 1920s.
Ms. Flewellyn said she is serving on the board of the Equal Justice Institute of Central Florida.
This group is working on an exhibit in Orlando in 2020 to mark the centennial of the Ocoee
massacre. Ms. Clarke noted the site of the Bayliss hanging was behind the Sheriff's office that is
now being restored on Palmetto Avenue. Ms. Clarke said the museum has limited information
about the hanging but it was the only legal hanging in Seminole County. The story of the hanging
has become part of the "ghost" tours of Sanford but it has not presented in historical context.
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 5:45pm.
Approved 10/10/2017
Carole Hinshaw, Vice Chairman