Project sponsored by the Oregon State Capitol Foundation.
This project newsletter is being sent to you as someone who may be particularly interested in this exciting project at your Oregon State Capitol.
In this Issue:
Project Concepts
Mission Statement
Interpretive Strategy
Pacific Wonderland Plates
Capitol Foundation
Members
Sen Jason Atkinson*
Sen Betsy Johnson
Sen Joanne Verger
Rep Vicki Berger
Rep Brian Clem*
Rep Matt Wingard
Sandra Allen
Frankie Bell*
Kathryn Boe-Duncan
Frank Brawner
Jane Cease, Vice-Chair*
Herb Colomb*
Verne A. Duncan
Paul Hanneman
Ginny Lang
Bill Markham
Anthony Meeker
Fred Neal*
Norma Paulus
Annette Price
Norm Smith
Gerry Thompson
Fred VanNatta*, Chair
Gary Wilhelms
* Project Governance
Committee Member
Following research, surveys, interviews, dialogues, discussions, focus groups and concepting charrettes, agreements have been reached on the strategic framework for Oregon’s History Gateway at the State Capitol.
The next step is to clarify interpretive strategy and to reach initial agreements about the program, the organizational improvements and the new operating structures that are needed to design, develop, run and operate Oregon’s History Gateway effectively.
As the project transitions into the Strategic Development Phase, the report findings reviewed and approved by OSCF will be used as a roadmap for the strategic plan development. The plan, scheduled to be completed by June 2012, will outline phases over years. With OSCF's approval, the plan will be presented to the Legislative Administration Committee (LAC) for consideration and final adoption consideration.
Imagine...
- A Welcome Center with connections to sites across Oregon
- Listening Posts (original Capitol telephone booths) tell the Oregon story
- A 16 Artifact Exhibit that tells a different portion of the Oregon story each year
- Discovering your own Oregon story
Explore all of the exciting ideas in the Project Development Report!
OSCF Approves Oregon's History Gateway Mission Statement
Mission: "Ignite belief and stimulate involvement in Oregon's democracy."
At the April 18th meeting, OSCF approved a mission statement that conveys an imperative for action: the mission is designed to be timely, bold and vital to the people of the state, and to its leaders.The Oregon’s History Gateway will capture imagination and stimulate commitment from a consensus. Purpose statement and core values were also approved as follows:
Purpose
“Oregon’s History Gateway at the State Capitol will serve as a lens through which thousands and thousands of visitors can examine and clarify their understanding of the relationship of the State Capitol to The Oregon Story.”
Core Values
- Feature our State Capitol as "The People's Building"
- Educate people
- Preserve the past
- Showcase individuals and events
- Reflect our diversity
- Demonstrate the worth of remembering what has gone before
Interpretive Strategy Outlined
Oregon’s History Gateway at the State Capitol will concentrate on conveying a simple and primary storyline: “What in our history makes Oregon unique”. The answers to this question describe the “Oregon Story”.
Because a visit to the State Capitol presents a specific and unique learning opportunity, three interpretive themes will focus a lens on the relationship of the State Capitol to its citizens, its history and to the Oregon Story.
- What is my place in the Oregon story?
- What happens here at the State Capitol? What important things have happened here in the past?
- How does what has happened here connect and relate to the rest of the state of Oregon, to my life and my community's life?
These three themes will be illuminated in a variety of ways in all interpretive programs, exhibits, displays and experiences provided for visitors in the State Capitol building.
Pacific Wonderland License Plate Sales Provides Funding
Oregon History Gateway’s first phase will be primarily funded by sales of the special one-time reissue of 40,000 “retro commemorative” Pacific Wonderland license plates. Oregon schoolchildren created the original plate in 1959 in honor of Oregon’s 100th birthday, and the original plates were available until 1964. 
Reissued to honor Oregon’s 150th birthday, sales of the plates ($100 buys “Pacific Wonderland” as a permanent commemorative) support the Oregon Historical Society and the Foundation's Oregon History Gateway Project. The plates are available through any DMV office or download the application form on DMV’s website and get the plates by mail.
