Robert W. Richmond Scholarship
The Heritage League of Greater Kansas City offers a $500 scholarship and complimentary registration for beginning professionals to attend the American Association for State and Local History annual meeting in honor of Robert W. Richmond, Heritage League founder and past president 1985-1986 of the American Association for State & Local History.
To apply for the Robert W. Richmond Fund Scholarship, new professionals (less than three years in the museum profession) from Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, or Iowa should submit a letter of application discussing their goals in the history field and how their organization will benefit from their participation in the AASLH annual meeting, their current resume and a letter of support from their supervisor or board chair by July 1, 2008.
Applications should be sent to:
Mindi Love, Director
Johnson County Museums
6305 Lackman Road
Shawnee, Kansas 66217
Past recipients include:
- Jennifer Sturbois, Director, Wornall House Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, 1990;
- Alisha Stockton, Curator/Director, Shoal Creek, Kansas City, Missouri, 1991;
- Jennifer Alexander, a graduate of the Master of Arts in Historical Agency and Museum Administration program at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 1992;
- Dana Prader, from Lansing, Kansas, 1994;
- Priscilla Henning, a masters degree candidate in History at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, 1996;
- Susan Dame, Assistant Curator, Boot Hill, Dodge City, Kansas 1997;
- Raymond Doswell, Curator, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, 1999;
- Linda Barnickel, Archivist at the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, 2000;
- The annual meeting for the American Association for State and Local History was cancelled due to events of September 11th, 2001;
- Rita Shelley, Big Muddy Workshop, Omaha, NE, 2003.