On Saturday, February 22nd, the Fillmore Historical Museum held their Annual Membership Meeting which began at noon with a barbecue lunch for members to enjoy. They then discussed the annual report announcing their volunteers gave over 200 hours of time to the museum, among many other successes they had for the year. Photo credit Fillmore Historical Museum.

On Saturday, February 22, the annual meeting of the membership of the Fillmore Historical Museum was held. It began at noon with a barbecue lunch for members. Our thanks to Board of Directors member Doug Legan and his wife, Andrea, for the wonderful lunch.

After the lunch the Annual Membership Meeting was held. Martha Gentry. Executive Director and President of the Association gave her annual report. Although only staffed by volunteers, we had a busy and productive year. In total, our volunteers gave over 2000 hours of time to keep the museum open, give tours, and maintain the collection. The year included school tours, tours for a variety of civic groups and individuals and six online zoom programs. The museum was used by civic groups for meetings and social gatherings. Our website continues to be updated and can be found at fillmorehistoricalmuseum.org. The website contains stories, information and all of the online programming that has been done.

Cameron Stone, our current intern from the History program at Cal State Channel Islands, spoke on his current project at the Museum. Several of our prior interns have gone forward with museum related graduate studies.

The final official business was the election of Mark Austin to the 2025-26 museum board of directors.

After the Membership meeting, the board of directors meeting was held. The Board made note of the fact that 15 year board member Robert Morris has now retired. The board also remembered 21 year museum board member Patricia Morris who passed away in 2024. Finally the board welcomed new board member, Mark Austin.

After fifteen years as secretary Beverly Hurst has stepped down and will be replaced by Joanna Michels. Beverly will remain on the board as a member at large.

The 2025 board of the Fillmore Historical Museum will be:

Martha Gentry -

President and Executive

Director

Jack Stethem -

Vice President

Joanna Michels -

Secretary

Nancy Bowlin – Treasurer

Directors:

Mark Austin

Carina Forsythe

Tom Hardison

Beverly Hurst

Doug Legan

Linda Robertson

Carmen Zermeno

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Fillmore Historical Museum 2025 Annual