By Berkley W. Duck III
Conner Prairie, top-of-the-line outdoors heritage museums within the state, recreates lifestyles in 19th-century Indiana. It additionally was once the positioning of 1 of the main major controversies that an American museum has confronted. Twilight at Conner Prairie follows the advance of the museum, the conflicts of curiosity created via the phrases of founder Eli Lilly's presents, and the breakdown of the connection among the museum and its trustee, Earlham collage. writer Berkley Duck, who served on Conner Prairie's autonomous board of administrators whilst the board and CEO have been brushed off, offers an within examine what went unsuitable at Conner Prairie and the way it used to be positioned to right.Twilight at Conner Prairie is key studying for a person taken with the survival of museums and the moral duties of maintaining America's previous.
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Indb 37 3/29/11 5:10 AM 38 Chapter Two have recognized that the college could not invade the principal of its share of the endowment and that distributions to the college under the spending rule could not exceed the current income on that share unless there were additional funds accumulated in its reserve. One of the issues raised by the attorney general’s demand for an accounting by Earlham of its management of Conner Prairie, as described in chapter 13, was whether Earlham had violated this principle.
17 The policies that were to govern the administration of the Eli Lilly Endowment Fund took definitive form in the late 1970s. ” Units of the Eli Lilly Endowment Fund were allocated equally to each of the college and its postgraduate School of Religion, on the one hand, and Conner Prairie, on the other. ” At the same time, a spending policy was adopted and applied to the endowment, fixing distributions to “all three units” at 5 percent of the average market value of the endowment over the preceding 12 quarters.
49 Bolling also attended, at Lilly’s request. , which is a measure of the regard that Lilly had for him. Lilly Endowment was created and funded by Lilly, his brother J. K. , and their father, and after their deaths it became one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based, perhaps, on Lilly’s use of the phrase “division of the funds” in his letter to Bolling, Earlham seems to have approached this meeting as an opportunity to propose to Lilly a shift from Conner Prairie to Earlham of some part of the June 4, 1973, gift, and it appears that the Earlham representatives left the meeting with the hope that Lilly might agree to a change in the terms of the gift agreement.