From: The Vought House Inc.
To: Clinton Township School District
RE: Update on Educational Partnership   

• My talk/presentation in the auditorium to 7th and 8th graders at the Clinton Twp. Middle School went very well - got good feedback from students and teachers. 
•  We have a couple of education-related grants in the works:
• Currently funded research grant:  Genealogical work being done by Fred Sisser III, with Beth Rice and Melissa Mohlman from our group, to discover more about this family, etc.
• Just applied for a grant:  to print a much shorter booklet that would be appropriate for 8th grade students at the CT Middle School and other middle schools throughout Hunterdon County.  Will be working with social studies teachers Robyn Peuss, Leanne Pike to develop an 8th grade appropriate booklet. 
• As a follow up to that, I will be presenting to the North Hunterdon Social Studies teachers when they meet in early December. (power point presentation.  give out booklets.  talk about transforming this into a revolutionary-era museum) 
• Restoration Technologies:  Recent work on the grounds.  Need for a roof repair on the Vought House, to be funded by the owner, the school district.  
• Our mailing to all Clinton Twp. residents re: historic significance of the the Vought House & future as a museum will be in the mail in November.
• Our next steps in preparing for transfer of ownership:  to build membership and volunteer involvement, increase financing, etc.
• Next steps for the school district:  (1) finish NJ application, (2) finish the legal subdivision (over 2-years in the making) (3) write historic preservation easement (get guidelines from New Jersey Historic Trust & write it).

Yours, Don Sherblom