Volunteer

Looking for a unique way to contribute to the Cable Natural History Museum?  Consider making the gift of your time and talent as a volunteer. 

Volunteers at the Cable Natural History Museum perform a range of important educational and administrative duties vital to the Museum’s operation.  You don’t need to be an expert to volunteer.  If you’re interested, we’ll find a way to put your gift of time and energy to the best possible use!

To learn more about volunteering at the Cable Natural History Museum, contact us.

Beda McKinney, Volunteer Coordinator
Beda has been a dedicated volunteer and supporter of the Museum for many years.  She is actively involved in many community projects and knows the Cable community well.

The volunteer coordinator at the Museum is itself a volunteer position.  As coordinator, Beda helps the Museum line up volunteers to work at our programs and events, assist with administrative duties, and fill in when regular staff members cannot.

Glenn and Claire Laedtke, Volunteer Museum Shop Managers

In 2007, Glenn and Claire collectively volunteered over 410 hours of their time to help see that the Museum Shop would succeed. That’s over two months of time, effort, and work! For 20 years, the Laedtkes have been members and volunteers at the Museum.  Claire describes their involvement with the Museum, “We have helped in a variety of ways: at benefit events, as docents, and even with envelope stuffing.  In recent years we have preferred helping at the Dragonfly Store, now called the Museum Shop.”

Glenn and Claire have played a significant and leading roll in establishing the Museum Shop in the Museum’s current space.  This past year the Laedtkes were involved with packing and moving the original inventory from the Dragonfly to the Museum’s temporary Museum location; organizing volunteers to staff the Museum Shop; establishing operating systems, business records and reports; and seeking some new inventory with a restricted budget.  They are currently focusing on layout; sourcing fixtures and merchandise; and volunteer staffing for the Museum Shop in the new Museum building.  The Museum staff is extremely grateful for all the time and hard work that Glenn and Claire have put into the Museum Shop. Truly, they have made the Museum Shop what it is today.