A Letter from the President
The Murray Bowen Archives Project has accomplished a great deal in 2019.
The Board had its second annual retreat in June 2019 and made further progress on its strategic plan with specific focus on:
- Fundraising for the preservation, digitization, and accessibility of the video collection currently at the National Library of Medicine
- Photograph collection currently held at the Bowen Center
- Williamsburg Project housed in Williamsburg, Virginia prior to its transfer to NLM.
We are excited to announce that TMBAP has launched its new website. This site is easier to navigate, contains new material about Dr. Bowen and Bowen Theory and is searchable as well! Please visit the site and let us know what you think!
John Engels presented TMBAP’s first and very successful webinar fundraising event entitled Relationship Connection in Leadership using information John gathered while researching Dr. Bowen’s archives at The National Library of Medicine. Kent Webb, TMBAP Board member and Chair of its Fundraising Committee and Kimberly Capehart, TMBAP’s program and administrative coordinator (and tech guru par excellence) worked closely with John on this project. John donated all proceeds to TMBAP. Thank you John for your work on this event and your generosity. Thanks also to Kent and Kimberly for their efforts in making this such a successful project.
Kent Webb also serves as TMBAP’s representative to the Bowen Network Seminar and attended their Spring 2019 meeting where he explained TMBAP’s current vision, mission and projects.
Priscilla Friesen is TMBAP Vice President and primary contact with the National Library of Medicine. We are in contact with NLM to coordinate various project efforts as we move toward the goal of transferring all materials to NLM. Priscilla is key in the effort with donors around fundraising and expenditures by NLM for the project.
Joanne Bowen, past president of TMBAP and current Board member, is also working closely with NLM as she leads the effort to process Dr. Bowen’s materials housed at Williamsburg. Joanne’s continuing goal is to make the family letters available in her lifetime. This is a unique goal in the archiving field as collections of prominent people typically are closed until the deaths of the remaining grandchildren, as in the Sigmund Freud Paper Collection at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
I am impressed and grateful for the commitment of time and resources that the TMBAP Board, a volunteer working board, has put into the archives project. Other volunteers include Ann Jones who has done yeoman service helping us redesign our website. Pam Allen has reviewed numerous videotapes of Dr. Bowen and created clips available for viewing on the website. She is joined in this effort by Myra Schneider. It is because of this volunteer army that TMBAP continues to work towards its vision of making L. Murray Bowen’s materials available to the public.
The information on the projects below is prepared by the volunteers who are leading these efforts. Kimberly Capehart provides administrative and program assistance. TMBAP thanks and is grateful for the involvement and contributions of all its volunteers, staff, and donors, current and past.