The Employee Community Fund of Boeing of California presented a $100,000 check to the Santa Monica Historical Society Museum for the funding of the Donald Douglas Aircraft hands-on interactive exhibit in the permanent gallery of the new SMHSM, part of the Santa Monica Public Library complex, at a press event on Friday, August 10. (l-r) Jean Ann Holbrook; Kristina Andresen, SMHSM architect; City Councilmember Bob Holbrook; Iao Katagiri, Director of Community Affairs, RAND Corporation; Beverly A. Hoskinson, Executive Director, Employees Community Fund of Boeing California; Jean McNeil Wyner, SMHSM Board Chair; Belinda A. Allen, ECF Board of Directors; Markele F. Machado, Treasurer, ECF Board of Directors; and Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom. photo by Margaret Molloy
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