Happy New Year! and the 10 for 10 review

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. We are back in the office and catching up before the spring semester gets in full swing.

As promised, we wanted to share an update with you about the 10 for 10 campaign we completed at the end of last year. The goal was to raise $10,000 in 10 weeks to honor the 10 year anniversary of the Panama Canal Museum Collection coming to the University of Florida. The funds will be used to support the Oral History Program.

We are thrilled to say that with Albert and Jane Nahmad, Kathy Egolf, Carol Meyer MD, and Joe and Bev Wood leading the charge, we were able to raise $19,401, almost doubling our goal. Thank you to everyone that participated. This tremendous show of support will help us continue conducting oral history interviews and capturing the incredible history and priceless memories of those that lived and worked at the Panama Canal.

A special thank you to Albert and Jane Nahmad, who donated $15,000 for the Oral History Program! The Nahmads previously had generously provided the funding to establish the Panama Canal Gallery, which is dedicated to Albert’s classmates in the Balboa High School Class of 1958 (https://pcmc.uflib.ufl.edu/exhibits/gallery/).

Thank you for following the 10 weeks with us. Visit our Oral History Program page to keep listening to the amazing stories, https://ufdc.ufl.edu/collections/ohpcm.