LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The Allen County Museum honored two long-serving board members at their annual meeting on Sunday.
Both the president, Bill Timmermeister, and vice president, Dick Boehr, of the museum's board of trustees, officially retired after 23 years of service. The two worked on many major projects during those past two decades, like expanding the building, creating space for children's education, and getting the iconic Shay Locomotive on display.
Boehr says he's enjoyed being able to lend his construction industry expertise to the museum and to be able to work with the rest of the board to help create the place that the museum has grown into.
"The people I'm working with here on the board are just outstanding and I just am really excited about who's here and who's coming on. The other part is to be here and run into people from all over the world and just saying, 'Wow, that's the Allen County Historical Society and Museum,'" Boehr said.
Museum officials also took time to give a recap of last year and go over their plans for the future.
"I officially started in August, and some of the things that we've implemented in the last year is that we've hired two new employees that have started and they will be introduced today at the annual meeting as well. And we have, for the first time, a changing exhibition schedule in our temporary gallery that is scheduled out for three years. So, there will be three exhibits a year in there, which has already brought a lot of people in the last two weeks since 'Mirror Mirror' opened at the beginning of January," said Christine Fowler Shearer, the director of the Allen County Museum.
The first temporary exhibit, "Mirror Mirror," will be on display through March 24th.
