Prohibition Historical Society

The Partisan Prohibition Historical Society originated in 1971 as an informal association of Prohibition Party regulars. The leader was a school teacher named Roger Storms. The Society was, essentially, Storms' hobby. It was incorporated as a Colorado non-profit in 1979, by many of the same individuals. The "registered agent" was the Prohibition Party national chairman, Earl F. Dodge.

Storms died in 1980, following a traffic accident, and control of the corporation soon passed to Dodge. Dodge discontinued the Society's newsletter, Prohibition History Notes, ceased making the Society's annual award to an individual or organization performing noteworthy service in preserving Prohibition Party history, and stopped scheduling Historical Society meetings.

Dodge also allowed the corporation to expire. When this was discovered by the Party regulars, several members of the original group formed a new non-profit corporation— without Dodge. We are endeavouring to re-establish the programme of meetings, awards, and publications which the Society sponsored under the leadership of Roger Storms. Life membership in the Partisan Prohibition Historical Society is granted upon payment of a $20.00 enrolment fee. Your support of the Society is greatly appreciated. A financial report is available upon request. For more information, or to join, write: Partisan Prohibition Historical Society, Box 212, Needmore, Pennsylvania 17238.

The Society elected the following officers in the spring of 2001:

President:	Leroy Pletten, Sterling, Michigan
Vice-President:	Jeff Rome, Boston, Massachusetts
Secretary:	James Hedges, Needmore, Pennsylvania Email: hedges@prohibitionists.org
Treasurer:	Don Webb, Dothan, Alabama
Directors:	Richard K. Whitney, Boston, Massachusetts Daniel Petty, Greenfield, Tennessee C.L. "Connie" Gammon, Lafayette, Tennessee

Any or all First Series issues can be provided as xerox copies; the originals were typed and mimeographed. All Second Series issues are in stock; they are letterpressed from hand-set metal type. Prohibition History Notes articles usually are not duplicated on the website. Individual Second Series issues are $5 each; lifetime membership in the Partisan Prohibition Historical Society is granted upon payment of a $20 enrolment fee. New members receive all available back issues.

2005 Trust Fund Grant

The Prohibition Trust Fund Association has provided $2200 to the Partisan Prohibition Historical Society, for 2005-2006 projects. This is the largest amount that the Historical Society has ever received from the Trust Fund.

Included in the total amount is $240 to pay the website host fee for 12 months, $1000 for website programming and up-dates, $550 to hire a press agency specializing in non-profit organizations which will distribute several timely news releases based on definitive Prohibition events, and $410 for travel expenses so that the Secretary can go to Hillsdale College in Michigan and study the papers of 1964-68-72 presidential candidate EH Munn.

Distributing publicity through an established wire service should greatly increase our visibility. "Bad press" has afflicted the temperance movement for many years, and we have contributed to that by sometimes having an amateurish, unprofessional journalistic style. Materials for the press releases will be drawn from this website, at little additional time or expense.

EH Munn was Professor of Education at and Associate Dean of Hillsdale College. The College library holds materials from his presidential campaigns, including motion pictures and audio tapes. These will be reviewed, after which excerpts will be posted on this website