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Pamela Vorachek

Pamela A. Vorachek has been executive director of A.C. Gilbert’s Discovery Village (a children’s museum) in Salem, Oregon, for over nine years.

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  • Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961)

    A.C. Gilbert—the inventor of the Erector Set and other educational toys—was born on February 15, 1884, in Salem, Oregon. As a young boy, he was very athletic and once ran away with a minstrel show to become the "Champion Boy Bag Puncher of the World." Gilbert attended track meets at …

    Oregon Encyclopedia