NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- New Exhibit Cases for the PAS Museum
April 2, 2002
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A handcrafted display case has been donated to the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) Museum. This donation represents the first step in a campaign to acquire four cases that will improve the visibility and security of many of the objects in the PAS Museum collection.

Last year, PAS was fortunate to borrow exhibit cases from their colleagues at Lawton's Museum of the Great Plains (MGP). Again this year several loaned cases from MGP will be used to mount the Ludwig Exhibition that opens at the PAS Museum in mid-July. PAS believes it is time to invest in their own set of cases. The benefits are obvious. Exhibit cases provide a traditional way to display objects at a height that makes them easy for visitors to examine closely and in a manner that affirms their obvious importance. This method of display also offers excellent physical security for the most valuable objects, especially small ones.

Following a discussion of this need at a recent PAS Ambassadors meeting, Museum Public Relations Director, James Lambert and his wife Doris joined with long-time member Vince Cambron and his wife Nadine to donate a prototype case designed and built by Mr. Cambron. The functional beauty of his initial effort makes it clear that a set of cases will substantially improve our ability to engage and inform the several thousand guests who visit the PAS Museum each year.

The cost of each case based on this original model, complete with plexiglas cover, is $1,100 - a bargain in comparison with exhibit cases offered in archival catalogs.

PAS has set a goal of raising $3,300 quickly so they can purchase three more cases this year. Donors are invited to join the PAS Museum Ambassadors to support this capital investment project. A permanent plaque will be installed honoring donors whose generosity provides full funding for the purchase of an individual case.

Tax-deductible contributions may be sent to the Museum Operations Fund, Percussive Arts Society, 701 NW Ferris Avenue, Lawton OK 73507-5442. For more information, please contact Michael Kenyon or Otice Sircy at (580) 353-1455. You can also reach us at museum@pas.org.

Donors Vince Cambron (left) and Jim and Doris Lambert with new PAS display case.

For photo of donors with display case go to: http://www.pas.org/mediakit/photos/