Donating Memorabilia
Do have treasures you’d like to share with current and former staff and students of DoDEA, DDESS, or DODDS?
Send the American Overseas Schools Historical Society (AOSHS) a box of your memorabilia and they will record, digitize, archive, and display them online and in the museum for the delight of past and future generations.
For reference, below is a list of items AOSHS accepts and doesn’t accept as donations.
2019 AOSHS What's in your box?
DO SEND:
- Artwork with location and date on it
- Awards, class rings, diaries of school events, dissertations, and school journals (not vacation)
- Letter jackets or other discernable clothing (cheerleading, mascots, band, etc.)
- Magazines that feature student accomplishments; either military or host nation
- News clippings with details of publication and date
- Pennants
- Photographs with identification of person(s), location and date
- Presentations to visiting dignitaries
- School records
- Documented information about the mission of a School, District or Region
- Trophies with specific details of school, event, year
- Yearbooks
- Videos or like of school functions and/or events
DON'T SEND
- Items that are readily available elsewhere, such as commercially published magazines or textbooks
- Broken artifacts, unreadable documents and other material that are too damaged to be of historical value
- Personal diaries, videos or disks of holiday or summer vacations
- Personnel documents that are disparaging to an individual/s or that contain any personally identifiable information
- Souvenirs from foreign countries unless school or educationally related
Send your items to AOSHS at the following address:
American Overseas Schools Historical Society
704 W. Douglas Avenue
Wichita, KS 67203
Phone 316-265-6837
All donations must include a completed and signed Property Donations Form inside each box of items sent to AOSHS.
For further questions regarding property donations, please email the AOSHS office at aoshsoffice@sbeglobal.net or call 316-265-6837 to verify if the items/s you want to donate are appropriate for the archives.