1935 Engineers' Club Historical Video

Watch the 1935 film, in which Charles Kettering and Edward Deeds reminisce about the Engineers Club and greet Orville Wright in the Engineers Club library. Take a walking tour of the Club in 1935.

Go to http://www.engineersclubofdaytonfoundation.org/story_engineers_club.html to see this historic film.

Watch The Wright Brothers ~ In Flight. Vintage footage includes 1908-1909 flights at Fort Myer, France and Italy – as well as the first motion pictures taken from an airplane. This is a new edit of century-old motion picture footage, made for the Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation. Dayton's legacy of innovation goes far beyond the Wright Brothers. The Foundation wants to capture the stories of Dayton's living innovators in their own words and pictures with a multimedia website. Dayton Innovation Legacy will be an internet resource that anyone can access. See more at www.DaytonInnovationLegacy.org

Foundation has new Website

The Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation invites all members to visit its new website to learn more about the charitable activities of the Foundation. Stay tuned for future historical projects planned for this new site. www.EngineersClubFoundation.org

Ropewalk in Park City Film Music Festival

The Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation's historical documentary film "Ropewalk: A Cordage Engineer's Journey Through History" is screening at the Park City Film Music Festival and is mentioned at the Film Dayton Blog.

To view this Blog Post, visit:
http://filmdayton.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2613931%3ABlogPost%3A561

And, the Ropewalk website is updated with a new look, and more educational material. Check out the captioned photo galleries, a pictorial synopsis, and a resource page with many links to ropemaking, knottying, and historical sites and references.

Have a look: www.StoryOfRope.org

Ropewalk receives Award

The Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation received a 2008 Award of Excellence in History Outreach from the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums (OAHSM), for the documentary film, "Ropewalk: A Cordage Engineer's Journey Through History". An enthusiastic group of 10 attended the awards luncheon at the Ohio History Center on October 4, 2008. Bill Hagenbuch and filmmaker Steve Fetsch accepted the award on behalf of the Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation. Film collaborators Chuck Buchanan, Lyric Rillera, Mikki Hearsum, Mark Martel, and Kate Hagenbuch represented the Engineers Club. Greene County Public Library Head Archivist Deanna Ulvestad lent her support, as well as Club members Chuck & Betty Martel.

The OAHSM History Outreach Awards, presented annually since 1959, recognize projects that have educational content, that have contributed to the promotion and understanding of local and state history, and that have had an impact on the community.

The Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation has pledged to donate 500 Ropewalk DVD’s free of charge to libraries, museums, historical societies and schools. This helps fulfill the educational mission of the Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation, for historical preservation and education in science and technology.