January 22, 2011

To:       UIC Trustees
Paula Allen-Meares, Chancellor
From:  Vincent Romano, Taylor Street Archives
Re:       January 20, 2011 presentation

Thank you for the opportunity to address your group on a matter of mutual concern; i.e., the mission of the Hull House Museum, as mandated by Board policy.  The success in the implementation of that policy was also touched upon in that presentation. The following, for our mutual edification, is extracted from the Museum’s mission statement.  The full body of that mission statement is available.
          

Mission Statement
The Jane Addams Hull House Museum serves as a dynamic memorial to Jane Addams, the work of her associates, and the neighborhood they served. The museum embodies UIC’s urban land grant commitment by preserving and developing the original Hull House site for the interpretation and continuation of the historic settlement house vision, linking research, education, and social engagement.   Read more…

Re: Letter to the writers of the Italian American Experience regarding the January 20, 2011 presentation to U of I Trustees.

I am pleased to report that the presentation to the U 0f I Trustees on January 20, 2011 has achieved its initial goal. The President of the Board of trustees, Christopher Kennedy, and the UIC Chancellor, Paula Allen-Meares, have agreed to arrange a “sit-down” with the Museum’s Director to review the Museum’s mission statement and their progress in the implementation of that statement. (See attached.) Read more…

January 22, 2011

To:       UIC Trustees
Paula Allen-Meares, Chancellor
From:  Vincent Romano, Taylor Street Archives
Re:       January 20, 2011 presentation

Thank you for the opportunity to address your group on a matter of mutual concern; i.e., the mission of the Hull House Museum, as mandated by Board policy.  The success in the implementation of that policy was also touched upon in that presentation. The following, for our mutual edification, is extracted from the Museum’s mission statement.  The full body of that mission statement is available.

Mission Statement
The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum serves as a dynamic memorial to Jane Addams, the work of her associates, and the neighborhood they served. The museum embodies UIC’s urban land grant commitment by preserving and developing the original Hull House site for the interpretation and continuation of the historic settlement house vision, linking research, education, and social engagement.   Read more…

January 20, 2011

Presentation to the U of I Trustees

Chicago Campus

Vince Romano

The Hull House Museum, under the guardianship of the UIC, is the primary outlet for the dissemination of information to the public.  Consistent with the code of the International Community of Museums, the Museum preserves the legacy of the Jane Addams Hull House and the Neighborhood it served. Read more…

Beginning with the mass migration from the shores of southern Europe over a century ago, a unique phenomenon in American culture began to unfold–the psychological genocide of a people.  Media induced; this holocaust vilified Italian Americans in a manner unprecedented. Today, another medium, the Hull House Museum, mandated by the U of I Trustees for the benefit of scholars, historians and the public, has chosen to manipulate history by disengaging Chicago’s Italian American immigrants, who constituted the inner core of the Hull House Neighborhood, from the history of Jane Addams and the Jane Addams’ Hull House. Read more…

Summer 2007

We, the residents and former residents of Taylor Street’s “Little Italy,” ask why a portion of “our” Sheridan Park was used to memorialize someone other than a resident of our community.  What criteria was used to select an individual who was not born in our Little Italy, was not raised in this neighborhood, and neither had he made any contributions to the thousands of Italian-American immigrants and their offspring that had been served by Sheridan park.

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