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- Subject: Re: Home Planned for Quayle Memorabilia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.202415.9281@pony.Ingres.COM>
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 20:24:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.134957.2808@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, dylan@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Dylan) writes...
- >Taken from the Philadelphia Inquirer 29 Dec 92
- >without permission.
-
- >Home Planned for Quayle memorabilia
-
- YES! Finally a place for the "true" Quayle fan.
- >
- >Associated Press
- > Huntington, Inc. - some enterprising Hoosiers want to tap those
- > Memorabilia such as his Little League uniform. Or his Indiana
- >University Law degree, partially chewed by a family dog.
-
- What is the name of the dog? I guess Quayle never bothered framing his
- law degree.
-
- > 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.
-
- Does anyone know anything about this foundation? Enquiring minds
- want to know.
-
- > "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.
-
- I have to wonder who these 12,000 people are and what state of mind they
- were in?
- Perhaps this could be like a Mecca for the Quayle fans out there.
- We must all make a pilgrimage once in our lives.
- >
- -Garrett
-