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Here
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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