Friday, March 26, 1999
Museum Center selects new director
McDonald adept at money matters
BY OWEN FINDSEN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cincinnati Museum Center has named Douglass W. McDonald, 45, as president and CEO. He replaces Richard M. Glover, who is retiring.
Mr. McDonald comes from Rochester, N.Y., where from 1995 to 1998 he was president and CEO of the Genesee Country Village and Museum, America's third largest living history village.
During his tenure, he balanced the budget for the first time in more than a decade, established record-breaking attendance and increased individual contributions to the museum by 64 percent.
“I believe that the only difference between a profit-making corporation and a nonprofit organization like the Museum Center is that one pays dividends to its stockholders while the other pays dividends to the people in the community,” Mr. McDonald said.
Mr. McDonald, who starts his new job April 6, was the unanimous choice of the Museum Center Board of Trustees, the search committee and the Leadership Committee of the museum staff, Scott Robertson, chairman of the Museum Center board, said Thursday. Mr. McDonald's skills combine strong financial management and development and extensive experience in museum operations, Mr. Robertson said.
From 1983 to 1995, Mr. McDonald worked at Conner Prairie, a historic village in Fishers, Ind., near Indianapolis, where he last served as director of operations and treasurer.
He is married to Kay Stangeland McDonald. They have one son, Timothy, 11.
Mr. McDonald takes over the presidency from Mr. Glover, who started in 1995 following the merger of the Historical Society, Museum of Natural History and Museum Center Foundation.
The Cincinnati Museum Center, which includes the three museums, the Historical Society Library and the Robert D. Lindner Family Omnimax Theater, has an annual operating budget of $12 million and attracts more than 1 million visitors each year.
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