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Dear Friends and Family

As we enter the last few months of 2018, we take this opportunity to reflect upon our accomplishments and look forward to the exciting year ahead. Your support has enabled the Straus Historical Society to provide quality research, documentation, preservation and educational programs. Your continued support will help us to enhance our existing endeavors and create new opportunities.

Last year, the SHS announced the inception of the Straus Historical Society Scholarship Program. The goal of the Program is to help support the continuing education of a student or students whose professional objective is in the field of public service. The Program is intended to reflect the Straus family’s long and honored history of public service and philanthropy. In the spring of 2018, Rachel King, a graduate student in public service at American University, was awarded the first SHS scholarship. She was chosen over an extraordinarily accomplished field of more than 40 applicants. It was only through your support that we were able to fund this initiative. We hope to award another scholarship in 2019.
 
The Society created a new book, Strauses and the Arts, which was released in May, 2018, shortly before its companion Silent Auction. Both projects created interest beyond the family.
 
SHS digital archivist, Marissa Pelliccia, has continued her work digitizing the Society’s extensive archives. Online at www.straushistoricalsociety.pastperfectoneline.com you will find the L. Straus & Sons, Georgia, Early Family and Lazarus Straus Family Collections. Marissa has completed several more collections that will be uploaded over the next few months and is currently working to digitize our extensive Titanic Collection.
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​​Donations
Help us honor the legacy of the past for future generations by making a generous tax-deductible donation.

Donate by Check:
Please mail your check to
Straus Historical Society, Inc.
Post Office Box 416 
Smithtown, NY 11787-0416

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Annual Report
A copy of the Straus Historical Society's annual report may be obtained, upon request, from the Society or from:

Office of the Attorney General
Charities Bureau
120 Broadway
New York, NY 10271
SHS director Joan Adler gave presentations throughout the year: in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Tucson and Long Island. They have led to an increase in the Society’s exposure, as well as opportunities to collaborate with new individuals and organizations. In October 1998, SHS received its nonprofit 501(c)(3) designation from the IRS. To mark this momentous anniversary we planned a 20th anniversary celebration at The Center for Jewish History, which was to be co-hosted by partner organization Leo Baeck Institute and the American Jewish Historical Society. The latter was founded by Oscar S. Straus in 1892. Due to a flood in the building, this event must be rescheduled. You will be notified of the new date as soon as it is determined.
 
We are grateful to the David A. and Mildred H. Morse Charitable Trust for honoring SHS with a Challenge Matching Grant. Because of your generous earmarked contributions, we have been able to fund the work of our able assistant director, Catherine Smith, for an additional year.
 
Sustained growth and maintaining excellence do not come without cost, a cost that increases each year. If we are to be positioned to build on our achievements, we respectfully ask that you consider as generous an investment in SHS as you feel you can afford.
 
Help us honor the legacy of the past and the present for future generations. Your TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation may be made by check or by clicking the link below to use your credit card through PayPal

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Help us honor the legacy of the past for future generations 
by making a generous tax-deductible donation.
​Mark the donation as a gift to ensure SHS receives your full donation.