Hi Thomas,
To complicate things at our theatre, we changed our name from Oregon Shakespearean Festival Association (incorporated in 1937) to just Oregon Shakespeare Festival for common usage in 1988, but since we are a membership organization we are still OSFA for membership, board of directors and annual meeting purposes. I recently found out that a new person in the accounting office tried to file something official under the name OSF and it was sent back to be redone as OSFA.
In writing the history of the organization the Marketing and Communications office uses OSF instead of OSFA even when referring to those years, but if I write about it I distinguish between the two. If the M&C dept. is quoting from our founder though, they will use OSFA if it is a part of the quote.
In the Administrative or Legal records in the Archives I mostly organize them chronologically so they naturally fall under the name by which they were created.
We had a theatre branch in Portland, OR called Portland Center Stage the first year of its operation. People were not connecting that name with us, so we created OSF-Portland for the second-sixth years. When the theatre later spun off from us they reverted to PCS as it was known earlier. I continue to list items from the first year under PCS.
Some people continue to call us the Ashland Shakespeare Festival or just Ashland, which is why when we changed our e-mail and web site from orshakes.org-some people thought of an orgy-to osfashland.org, we mollified those people. We were trying to get just osf, but old spaghetti factory already had that.
I'm glad I don't have to deal with all the business mergers.
Kit Leary
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Berry [SMTP:tberry@HCEA.NET]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:31 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Business name changes and collection titles
Just out of curiosity: What title would you use for a collection that came
from a company that has undergone several name changes? Would you use the
name it was operating under when the donation was made? Use an earlier name
if the earlier name was better known than a late one? Let the donor choose
how it should be identified? Use some other method?
Best wishes,
Thomas Berry, Archivist/Web Editor
Historical Construction Equipment Association
16623 Liberty Hi Road
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
Phone 419-352-5616
Fax 419-352-6086
tberry@hcea.net
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