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- Subject: Home Planned for Quayle Memorabilia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.134957.2808@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 13:49:57 -0500
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- Taken from the Philadelphia Inquirer 29 Dec 92
- without permission.
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- The mangled law degree? The dog chewed it.
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- Home Planned for Quayle memorabilia
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- Associated Press
- Huntington, Inc. - some enterprising Hoosiers want to tap those
- special tourists who want to visit Indiana to see memorabilia of
- the soon-to-be-former vice president, Dan Quayle.
- Memorabilia such as his Little League uniform. Or his Indiana
- University Law degree, partially chewed by a family dog.
- It would be the nation's first vice presidential museum.
- The Dan Quayle Commemorative Foundation wants to house the Quayle
- Center and Museum in an old church here in his home town, and open
- it in May.
- "We're talking about Dan Quayle's life, his family, his political
- career, the fact that this is history in the making for the state
- of Indiana," said foundation spokesman David A. Schenkel. "We're
- documenting as much as we can, for future generations to enjoy."
- The group has displayed memorabilia on the 44th vice president for
- two years at the Huntington City-Township Library and Huntington
- College.
- More than 12,000 people have visited those displays, but with the
- collection growing and the church up for sale, the foundation board
- decided the time was right for a permanent home, Schenkel said.
- Barbara B. Hancher, president of the Huntington County Chamber of
- Commerce, said a Quayle museum would be good for retailers.
- "The kind of people who would come to a Quayle museum are also the
- kinds of people who might take the time to wander into an antique
- shop or a gift shop or look at the community a little bit more than
- some," Hancher said.
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