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Original Dive Suit in the Eastland CollectionHere are the project committees as currently defined. If you would like to actively participate and contribute your time and talents to a committee, or just have an idea to contribute to a project effort, please contact us directly or register as a member today!

MEMORIALS COMMITTEE
This committee will look at getting a prominent memorial placed at the disaster site in the city of Chicago. This memorial will include the names of all victims, survivors and rescuers. This committee will also be tasked to find ways to better observe the anniversary of the disaster; getting churches to recognize the victims in prayers, the City of Chicago to put their city flags at half mast on the anniversary, etc.
Chair: Karl Sup

POSTAL STAMP COMMITTEE
This committee will try to convince the US Postal Service to issue a commemorative stamp on the 100th anniversary of the disaster. The work will involve writing a proposal for the Postal Service and lobbying US congresspersons to support our efforts.
Chair: Open

CORRECTING OMISSIONS FROM REFERENCE MATERIALS This committee will find reference books, articles, databases, etc. that have made a glaring omission in leaving out any information or reference to the Eastland disaster, and writing to the publishers or authors and getting them to add it in to future printings/editions of their publication.
Chair: M. J. Bonevelle

100th ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE
This committee will be responsible for starting to plan the 100th anniversary observance in the City of Chicago. This committee will have 16 years to come up with ideas for all sorts of types of observances and planning ways to make this observance noticed by media.
Chair: Open

INFORMATION ARCHIVE/WEBSITE COMMITTEE
This committee will be compiling factual information, lists of references, first-person sources, etc. This committee will also discuss changes and improvements for the society's website.
Chair: Karl Sup

ORAL HISTORIES COMMITTEE
This committee will contact descendants of survivors, victims, rescuers, and anyone else involved in the disaster and compile written records of the oral histories that have been passed down. It is important for us to collect this information before it passes through more generations.
Chair: Open

RECOGNITION BY PRINT AND MASS MEDIA COMMITTEE
This committee will contact newspapers and television to make sure that the disaster is not forgotten. One of our goals as an organization is to increase public awareness of the disater. An excellent way to do this is to get newspapers, magazines, and television to use it as a subject and to observe the anniversary of the disaster each year.
Chair: Open

 

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