Jeff Schmitt Elected President of Dubois County Museum Board of Directors

The Dubois County Museum Board of Directors held their reorganizational meeting Thursday, January
22, 2026 and have elected Jeff Schmitt as President of the Board. Reelected to the other officer positions
were Victor Betz as Vice-president, Julia Flynn as Treasurer and Joann Schnarr as Secretary. The Board
recognized two members who have decided to step down from the Board. Bruce Heeke will be stepping
away after six years on the Board, while serving as President the past two years. Margaret “Peg”
Wagner also has stepped down. She served many years on the Board as Treasurer and as Membership
Chairman. The Board thanks them for their service.

The members of Museum Board of Directors are Kathy Bachman, W. Jean Hoffman, Joe Shelton, Elaine
Hopf, Gary Eck, Gene Welp, Terry Flick, Taylor O’Bryan, Vicki Wiederkehr, Dr. Ryan Flamion, Sandy Miller
and Kurt Vonderheide. Cheryl Sermersheim returns to the Board.

Jeff Schmitt, from Haysville, has been a volunteer at the museum since 2020. He became a member of
the board in 2023 acting as Recording Secretary in 2023 and 2024. He then took on the Chairman of the
Collections Department in 2024, filling in the vacancy left by longtime Collections Chair, Mary Ann
Hayes. He oversees the six volunteers that work in the Collections area with the collecting, cataloging
and preserving the over 66,000 pieces of artifacts collected by the museum.

 

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