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[Fred Schneider]

And there is no reason why a museum that is successful cannot  
announce its good points two or three or four or more times.   There  
are a lot of museums out there that simply don't have a clue what we  
are doing and even after they are told, they still wouldn't  
understand.   I happen to think, as one who has been a member of some  
other museums, that PTM is one of those which will survive.   I've  
watched too many people at far too many other groups try to blame   
their failures on some one or some thing outside their control.    
I've never seen that at PTM.   I've just watched a great bunch of  
focused guys saying "we can do this,"  who then set out to prove it.

On Mar 5, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Had I been originating a report on PTM's open houses to attract new
> volunteers, I would have waited at least until they were all over, and
> probably for a week or so until I saw how many people had actually  
> signed up
> as a result.  But since Fred took it upon himself to announce them  
> to the
> world, an update is required at this point.
>
> The Saturday open house yesterday brought twelve more attendees,  
> three or
> four of whom actually joined the museum on the spot (none of Tuesday's
> people did this, to the best of my knowledge).  One is scheduled to  
> start
> Monday in the shop; I am having an orientation in two weeks for  
> three folks
> who want to work in the Archives.
>
> A total of 25 people came as a result of the publicity in the four
> newspapers...a truly outstanding turnout.  It reminds me of the sales
> expertise my father had (he was an electrical engineer by  
> profession)..."You
> have to ask them to buy."  It is sometimes easy for the sales  
> department to
> miss that message because marketing too often becomes cluttered with
> technology.
>
> What other railway museum has done anything like this?  I'm eager  
> to learn
> what more we can do.
>
> Ed
>
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> Fred
> Schneider
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> Scott Becker at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum deserves a little pat
> on the back ... after George Tucker's funeral he started thinking
> that too many of our people are dying and we need new blood.   He
> staged an open house last weekend to try to get new people.   I'm
> told we got 13 nibbles ranging in age from 15 or 16 up to 75 which
> skills ranging from operators through an auto body worker to a civil
> engineer.   Scott also managed to get articles in three newspapers in
> advances of the open house.    You guys might want to pull up the
> piece on the fellows at the museum that appeared in the Washington
> Observer-Reporter:
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> http://www.observer-reporter.com/main.asp?
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