Year of Memory: 1990 & 2015
I started at the Museum of Natural History in August of 1990 as a docent and planetarium operator. There are so many great memories: tours on the 2nd floor with the coprolites, accidents in the Planetarium that seemed to single me out, the first presentation in the “Discovery Room” on the 4th floor, docent parties in the Rotunda, and being involved with the beginning of the Summer Camp program, just to name a few.
I distinctly remember my first night of docent training…there was this guy named Ron who had a mustache and knew a lot about dinosaurs. We started dating two years later and he eventually proposed to me on the 3rd floor where the Bald Eagle used to be. Ron is now the Director of the Paleontology Laboratory at the Perot Museum in Dallas, Texas and I teach 8th grade science. We both use our experience from the Museum of Natural History on a regular basis. When we come home to Michigan, we always stop in at the Museum. Our children, Stephen and Christine, understand the importance of the place and the people who worked there. After all, they wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the Museum of Natural History.
MJ’s mother-in-law also shared a memory here.
