WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK 1989-1990


Assistant Director for Development and State Relations: SONDRA C. SHAW, 262-5555.
   Local History, Office of: THOMAS MCKAY, director, 262-2316.
   Membership Services: CONSTANCE H. MEIER, director, 262-9613.
   Public Information, Office of: ROBERT GRANELATEN, director, 262-9606.
 Administrative Services, Division of: EUGENE L. SPINDLER, administrator,
262-9614.
 Archives and Research Services, Division of: F. GERALD HAM, state archivist,
262-7304.
   State Historian: WILLIAM F. THOMPSON, 262-2999.
 Historic Preservation, Division of' JEFF DEAN, administrator, 262-0746.
 Historic Sites, Division of' JEAN M. WEBER, administrator, 262-5553.
   Madeline Island Historical Museum: (715) 747-2415.
   Old Wade House: JEFFREY SCHULTZ, site director, (414) 526-3271.
   Old World Wisconsin: HUGH GURNEY, site director, (414) 594-2116.
   Pendarvis: MARK KNIPPING, site director, (608) 987-2122.
   Stonefield Village: JUDITH MEYERDIERKS, site director, (608) 725-5210.
   Villa Louis: MICHAEL DOUGLASS, site director, (608) 326-2721.
 Library Services, Division of' R. DAVID MYERS, state historical librarian,
262-9586.
 Museum, Division of' WILLIAM CROWLEY, administrator, 262-7720.
 Historical Markers Council: JOHN ROSLAK (designated by secretary of transportation),
chairper-
   son; H. NICHOLAS MULLER III (director, state historical society), secretary;
WILLIAM R. ERNST
   (designated by superintendent of public instruction), DONALD J. JOHANNING
(designated by
   secretary of development), JAMES L. TREICHEL (designated by secretary
of natural resources).
Mailing Address: 816 State Street, Madison 53706.
Publications: Wisconsin Magazine of History (quarterly journal, complimentary
to members, sin-
   gle issues, $2); Columns (bimonthly newsletter, complimentary to members);
Wisconsin Public
   Documents (free periodic checklist); Wisconsin Calendar (annual, 1989
edition, $5.95); Ex-
   change (bimonthly newsletter on local history techniques and activities
of the Office of Local
   History, free to affiliated societies, others $3 per year); and Wisconsin
Preservation: National
   Register of Historic Places Newsletter (bimonthly newsletter on historic
preservation tech-
   niques and activities in Wisconsin, free). The society also publishes
scholarly and popular
   books on history, research guides, and miscellaneous brochures to acquaint
the public with
   the resources and programs of the society. Recent publications include:
The History of Wis-
   consin: Volume VI, Continuity and Change, 1940-1965 ($35); The U.S.S.
Wisconsin: A History
   of Two Battleships ($5.95); The Documentary History of the Ratification
of the Constitution,
   Volume VIII: Virginia ($50); Genealogical Research: An Introduction to
the Resources of the
   State Historical Society of Wisconsin ($5.95); and Historic Preservation
Law in Wisconsin ($3).
Number of Employes: 143.78.
Total Budget 1987-89: $16,860,000.
Statutory Reference: Section 15.70.
   History: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin was founded in 1846
and chartered by the
state legislature in Chapter 17, Laws of 1853. It has received state funding
since 1854- longer
than any other historical society in the nation. Early state legislation
also made the society
responsible for the preservation and care of all records, articles, and other
materials of historic
interest to the state.
   The Historical Markers Commission was created in 1944 as a nonstatutory,
ex officio body.
Chapter 192, Laws of 1953, made the commission statutory. Chapter 75, Laws
of 1967, renamed
the commission the Historical Markers Council and transferred it to the historical
society.
   Chapter 29, Laws of 1977, declared it to be a public policy to "engage
in a comprehensive
program of historic preservation to promote the use and conservation of such
property repre-
sentative of both the rural and urban heritage of the state". This law
created the Historic Preser-
vation Review Board to review and make recommendations about actions affecting
historic
properties and attached it to the society under Section 15.03 of the statutes.
  The Historic Preservation Negotiating Board, created by Chapter 29, Laws
of 1977, was di-
rected to use negotiation to ameliorate the adverse effects of state agency
actions on historic


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