Teresa Whitt resigns as director of South Charleston Museum
SCM presented two films about WV musicians in cooperation with the WV Music Hall of Fame last fall
Teresa Whitt, director/curator of The South Charleston Museum, delivered a Christmas Eve surprise to the board of the South Charleston Museum, sending out an e-mail on Wednesday, Dec. 19th, at 4:30 PM that her last day was Friday, Dec. 21. She offered to help make the transistion during the first two weeks of January 2008, using her annual leave time, but the city of South Charleston has a policy of paying the person a lump sum payment. She wrote me, ” If I had been able to stay on as an employee for those extra days, it would have given the museum well over three
weeks notice. ” I for one will greatly miss her.
I have been working with Teresa on a hundred film events, finding her always helpful. The fact is that Chuck Taylor, the projectionist, Teresa and myself pretty much kept the film events going with some help from SCMF board members.
The new administration in South Charleston city hall recently assigned Teresa to the job of keeping the future visitors center open. SCMF board members and city council members, etc. all wondered what the future of SCM would be…Where is there any interest in keeping local and Kanawha Valley history alive? These questions will have to be answered in 2008, unfortunately without the able assistance of the always friendly Ms. Whitt.
Some of the things she did -
1998 - Present
South Charleston Museum, South Charleston, Director/Curator
Recently engineered relocation of entire museum facility and exhibitions to a local historic theatre, involving extensive planning and public relations.
Solely in charge of the direct operations of local history museum, including all planning, exhibitions, programming, and management, with monthly reporting to the Foundation Board
Created and continually develop museum web site n Conceptualization, development, and installation of all exhibitions and programming.
Developed membership program and collections management policies.
Cataloguing of collection in Past Perfect Museum Software, including digitization of collection.
Writing and securing of grants.
Establishment and operation of museum gift shop.
Work as graphic artist to create all museum brochures and all other publications.
Worked extensively with the City of
South Charleston in planning a new interpretive center including drafting all donation forms, and collections policy, along with drafting exhibition briefs, and hiring exhibition fabricators.
Managed volunteer support staff for events and programming, as well as trained volunteers in collection management
1997 South Charleston
Museum Foundation,
South Charleston, WV
Museum Consultant
Guided and directed the planning and establishment of the South Charleston Museum, including exhibition/ collection storage, collection management, and the design of exhibition spaces, with the establishment of drafted bylaws and other guidelines for the museum, while drafting all museum forms and procedures.
