2007 Annual Report - Greater Worcester Community Foundation
2007 Annual Report - Greater Worcester Community Foundation
2007 Annual Report - Greater Worcester Community Foundation
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Barbara Allen Booth Fund<br />
Making history come alive<br />
“The fund grows as a future resource for the executive director,”<br />
says Barbara Allen Booth.<br />
Barbara Allen Booth grew up in rural Spencer on land<br />
that her “grandfather’s grandfather” received for his<br />
service in the Continental Army under the command of<br />
General Washington.<br />
When she became Mrs. Howard M. Booth, she continued<br />
to connect the history of her family with that of the<br />
T<br />
The <strong>Foundation</strong> husbands my money on behalf of the museum.<br />
And I don’t need to do any work.<br />
Barbara Allen Booth<br />
nation and region. A long-time donor and trustee of<br />
the <strong>Worcester</strong> Historical Museum, Mrs. Booth worked<br />
with the museum to turn the papers of her father-in-law<br />
George W. Booth (1870-1955), publisher of the<br />
<strong>Worcester</strong> Telegram, The Evening Gazette and the Sunday<br />
Telegram, into a memoir. She and her brother-in-law,<br />
the late Robert W. Booth, funded the museum’s main<br />
exhibition gallery.<br />
“History helps people see their lives in a larger context,”<br />
says William D. Wallace, executive director of the<br />
<strong>Worcester</strong> Historical Museum. “Understanding our<br />
relationships to one another enriches our sense of our<br />
community and ourselves. This bigger picture is very<br />
important to Mrs. Booth.”<br />
Barbara Booth is eager to help the museum tell a larger<br />
story of <strong>Worcester</strong> and its people. Now an honorary<br />
trustee of the museum, she helped to fund the initial<br />
architectural studies of its future home at the <strong>Worcester</strong><br />
Blackstone Visitor Center. In its new quarters, the<br />
museum will double its exhibition space, gain riverside<br />
acreage, and create programs with other nonprofits that<br />
incorporate all dimensions of life in the region, from the<br />
arts and industry to ecology and civics.<br />
Looking forward to preserve the past, Barbara Booth<br />
turned to the <strong>Foundation</strong> to create an endowed fund<br />
that will support the <strong>Worcester</strong> Historical Museum in<br />
perpetuity.<br />
“The fund grows as a future resource for the executive<br />
director,” says Barbara Booth, who celebrates her 97th<br />
birthday in 2008. “Creating the fund was a good decision.<br />
The <strong>Foundation</strong> husbands my money on behalf of the<br />
museum. And I don’t need to do any work.”<br />
On right: “History helps people see their lives in a larger context,” says<br />
William D. Wallace, executive director, <strong>Worcester</strong> Historical Museum, with young visitors.<br />
10 <strong>Greater</strong> <strong>Worcester</strong> <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> • 07 ANNUAL REPORT