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Volunteer Spotlight: Marvin Spector

Marvin Spector has been volunteering at the JMM for just over one year.  He volunteers in the Archives and Collections departments and can be seen at the museum multiple days each week.  He’s no longer employed and came to the …

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Volunteer Spotlight: Phil Sagal

It’s time to highlight another of our wonderful volunteers! Phil Sagal has been volunteering at the JMM for around 5 years.  He came to the JMM at the suggestion of a friend, who was already volunteering as a Docent.  One …

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Volunteer Spotlight: Laraine Fisher!

One of my favorite perks, as the JMM Volunteer Coordinator, is getting to know the volunteers.  They are a wonderful group of individuals and I’d like to highlight one person in particular. Laraine Fisher has been volunteering at the JMM …

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Spotlight on Volunteer: Maxine Gordon!

In honor of National Volunteer Week I’d like to highlight one of our many wonderful JMM volunteers! Maxine Gordon has been volunteering at the JMM for over 2 years now.  She came to us through a connection with Esther Weiner, …

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Volunteering at the JMM

Ilene Cohen established the role of Volunteer Coordinator 12 years ago and was in charge of volunteer recruitment, volunteer retention, scheduling and interviews. During that time, she did an amazing job growing our volunteer corps, making sure that our volunteer’s skills …

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JMM Volunteers Record 10,000th Birth!

A blog post by Assistant Director Deborah Cardin. To read more posts from Deborah click HERE. The JMM library is always humming with activity. Each month researchers schedule appointments to meet with JMM staff and volunteers to explore our manuscript …

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Spotlight on the Archives

Executive Director Marvin Pinkert asked Jennifer Vess (archivist) and myself (photo archivist) to prepare short articles highlighting the paper and photographic archives here at the Museum. I think they turned out rather well and decided to share them here with …

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Spotlight on Holocaust Education!

It’s hard to believe that we have already wrapped up hosting our fifth annual Holocaust education workshop! What started as a fairly small program has grown into a three day event in early August that included trips to the United …

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Intern Spotlight on Archives

The Baltimore Chapter was set up in 1950, two years after the BUNWC was begun, and it is still active today (they have a website: http:///www.bncbaltimore.com/)! In 1954, Eleanor Roosevelt (aka the widow of a pretty famous president) spoke at …