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 Michigan Commission (no appropriation; commission inactive)

Dr. George N. Fuller Mrs. William C. Geogley Dr. Randolph G. Adams Col. Roger M. Andrews

Minnesota Commission—

Governor, Chairman ex-officio Victor E. Lawson, Chairman Harold H. Barker, Vice Chairman Edgar L. Shave, Publicity Chairman James C. Kelly, Director Theodore C. Blegen Nels W. Elsberg John G. Rockwell

Ohio Commission—

Governor Charles D. Fogle, Chairman A. H. Mitchell C. Ellis Moore, Vice Chairman Samuel J. McCune E. J. Mildren, Director

Wisconsin Commission—

Fred Risser, Chairman

Nevin S. James Herbert H. Helble G. Erle Ingram Frank H. Bixby Michael H. Hall H. J. Levi

H. S. Halvorsen Stanley Slagg

Donald C. McDowell

The plan had now become an actuality and its development will be discussed under its different phases.

The celebration was carried though almost as outlined in its inception. The commission did all that it agreed to do, and some features were even added.

The accompanying program chart gives the picture in its detail.

George J. Blazier, Librarian of Marietta College, was chosen as official historian, Miss Marian Baesel as secretary to the director; a publicity man furnished by the Federal Writer’s Project; and these with a modest clerical force of usually one or two persons made up the office personnel. Some of the clerical help necessary was furnished by National Youth Administration and Federal Writer's Project.

At a later time, O. K. Reames of Zanesville, Ohio, was employed as director of pageantry and Percy Jewett Burrell of Watertown, Massachusetts, was retained as advisor on pageantry. While Governor White occupied an honorary position as chairman, he did give tremendously of time and effort to the affairs of the commission,

The program proposed for Northwest Territory Celebration was designed to do three essential things: