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ISHFOM'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER Our Pledge to the Youth of the World. Eric Nash, Executive Director.
The International Sports Hall of Fame and Olympic Museum is an educational institution and a museum of Olympic Artifacts, open to the public and dedicated to the principles of the Olympic Movement. It displays a collection of over 20,000 items dating from 1896 to the present and was located in California from 1980 to 1990 and at present is located in Oregon until a better location and situation for the future of the museun, in a more populated area can be found. But our pledge and advise to the youth of the entire world for many years has been and is, to abstain from the use of drugs, steroids and indulgence of alcohol and tobacco, which is most damaging to their health and brain power and destroys all real athletic ability and performance. To succeed in Sport or in the Olympics, this advice is well meant and so is to have discipline, following the coaches directions and always being on time for training sessions and events. I strictly observed these rules during my youth and believe them to be one of the most important and necessary ones to succeed. My wife and I constantly emphasize this to youngsters that visit our museum as well as through lectures. During the ten years in Southern California from1980 to1990, before, during and after the 1984 Olympics, when the museum was located in Orange County near Disneyland and had many visits from school groups, college students and groups from many other educational organizations besides the many private visitors and the purpose of the Educational Center was well rewarded, firstly by special lectures given weekly by former Olympians, which was met with great enthusiasm by everyone that visited the museum at that time. At present this service is not available on the remote Oregon Coast with so much less visitors than we had in California. If eventually we can find sponsors, like a large corporation or organization, interested in helping us to get the museum to a larger city, where it can be visited by more people than it is in this coastal community and get the notoriety and prestige back, which it had in Los Angeles and Orange County, we are sure that it would be a winner again, as it was from 1980 to 1990. The museum displays thousands of pins, badges, medals, uniforms, diplomas, posters and many other rare Olympic items, but it seems that the main attraction and favorite among the museum visitors, are the Torch Displays and items related to them, possibly because the Torch Runs are often the only Olympic event that many people are able to see live. See "Olympic Flame" and feel free to contact us with comments, suggestions, or to become a member, or wanting to get involved in any other way in this Olympic museum. To give us your Feedback, you may visit our Home Page. E-mail checked daily at: enash327@yahoo.com or weekly at: museum@olympicsource.org Telephone: Summer: 541-765-2923 Winter: 702-346-1776 |
