Carnahan family members with 2020 award recipients: Russ Carnahan, Julia Goldman, Jean Carnahan, Angela K. Drake, Roberta Broeker, Warren K. Erdman, and Tom Carnahan.
I get to Columbia several times a year, the most significant trip being for the presentation of the Gov. Mel Carnahan Public Service Award presented by UMC’s Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs. The event takes place on, or near, Mel’s birthday each year.
Drum Roll!
The 2020 awardees were Angela Drake, Direct and Supervising Attorney of The Veterans Clinic, MU School of Law. Roberta Broeker, MoDot Chief Financial Officer for 12 years. Warren K. Erdman, executive vice president for administration and corporate affairs for Kansas City Southern and former chief of staff for Sen. Bond. Julia Goldman, student scholarship recipient.
Congratulations to all for exhibiting the high ideals of a true public servant.
New Space for the State Historic Society
The event was held this year in the Center for Missouri Studies, that opened last August in Columbia. The space houses the State Historical Society’s research center, conservation lab, bookstore, and art gallery. Since 1898 the group has gathered, preserved, and published material related to Missouri History.
Laura Jolley shows Russ and me the original Missouri Statehood Petition of 1817 and the Meriwether Lewis Astronomy Notebook from 1808. We also viewed letters between President Truman and my father-in-law, Congressman ASJ Carnahan. My Senate papers are housed with the State Historical Society, as are Russ and ASJ’s congressional papers.
Dr. Gary Kremer, Executive Director, State Historical Society, demonstrates how the shelves can be cranked closed to conserve storage space.
Art Curator Joan Stack shares her enthusiasm for this work of Audubon, as we view his depiction of possums and persimmons. Most people only associate the artist with birds, but he also drew other wildlife as well.
General Order No. 11 by George Caleb Bingham. The State Historical Society has one of the two versions of this historic painting. The SHSM collection includes 30,000 individual works by artists, including Bingham and Thomas Hart Benton.
Letters between Congressman ASJ Carnahan and President Truman
Meriwether Lewis’ Astronomy Notebook of 1808
With my friend, Beth Pike, Senior Strategic Communication Associate for SHSMO. The painting of the Truman family by Greta Kempton was on loan to the Missouri Governor’s Mansion during the time I lived there. It was good to see it again.
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