Kathleen has been very active in many facets of the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival since joining the Foundation Board in 2001. Since leaving the Board, he continued to help with the festival, especially with the dance and donor party. While on the Board he continued to be involved in the store by serving on the merchandise committee. He was on the committee to create the first long range plan for the Foundation. Dave served on the Board from 1990 to 1999. One year, there was a tornado threat, causing Dave and Vera to escort those in the store to the police building for safety…quite an experience for non-native Midwesterners. The next step was setting up and manning a temporary store in a different vacant building on Ohio Avenue each year. He was traveling alone from Norway and had no idea what the Festival would be. He showed up with about 20 CDs which were gone very quickly.
Vera liked to tell of Morton Gunnar Larsen’s first visit to the Festival. Dave Menefee, his wife Vera and their son Derreck, were responsible for selling the performers’ merchandise until a store/office was in effect.Īt the beginning that meant keeping track of the merchandise and the money collected and moving the merchandise and tables from concert to concert. The recipient of the 2022 Chrysanthemum Award has earned this recognition for his years of devotion to the Festival and especially because of his and his family’s early work in support of the Festival and performers. The SJIRF is happy to recognize Katherine Menefee as the 2023 recipient of the Chrysanthemum Award. On top of all of that, she also recruited Jerusha White to volunteer at the Store for several years before she joined Katherine to also serve on the Board of Directors. That included making decisions on merchandise available for sale lining up volunteers to work the Store, and making sure that the performers' merchandise for sale was checked in and out carefully so that they were properly compensated. For the past several years, she has managed the Ragtime Store at the Liberty Theater during the Festival. Katherine played a major role in the work of creating a catalog of our Ragtime archives when the items were removed from State Fair Community College. She has also overseen the donor party held annually during the Festival and helped facilitate dances when they were a Festival staple. Her work with the Board has included acting as liaison with our many donors. She and her husband were major donors through the years and continues to donate now. Katherine Menefee was a fan and ragtime supporter long before she joined the Board of the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation (SJIRF) in 2006.
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