Myron Scheibe, board of trustees chairperson for Davenport's Putnam Museum & IMAX Theatre, last week announced the selection of Kim Findlay as the venue's new president and chief executive officer. Findlay spent 14 years working for the United Way of the Quad Cities Area, serving as president from 1995 to 2004, and currently serves on the board of directors for Quad City Arts and the executive committee for the American Heart Association's Heart Walk. Interim CEO Mark Bawden will stay on as the Putnam's development director. Scheibe also revealed that the Putnam had secured the finances to pay off its $3.65 million in remaining debt, in large part through Bawden's fundraising efforts, and announced the kickoff of the museum's forthcoming endowment campaign to offset operational costs and keep the Putnam "a debt-free institution." For information on current and upcoming Putnam events, visit (http://www.putnam.org ). - Mike Schulz

In celebration of its 125th anniversary, Modern Woodmen will partner with Habitat for Humanity-Quad Cities to build a home in the Habitat Park area of Rock Island. Modern Woodmen will provide the funding as well as volunteers to help build the 52nd Habitat house in the Quad Cities. Groundbreaking is tentatively slated for late summer, and the home is scheduled to be dedicated on the organization's 125th anniversary: January 5, 2008. Founded in 1883 as a fraternal benefit society, Modern Woodmen offers financial services and fraternal member benefits to individuals and families throughout the United States. This house will be the 15th home to be built in the city of Rock Island since Habitat for Humanity-Quad Cities was founded in 1993.

Philip Bialowitz should have died 64 years ago. That he survived one day at the Nazi death camp at Sobibór was mostly a matter of luck.

That he has lived this long is a testament to a group of people - himself included - who planned and executed one of two successful prisoner revolts against the Nazis during World War II.

On August 31, four outdoor locations in downtown Davenport will collectively house the traveling exhibit Coexistence, a series of 45 nine-by-15-foot panels - created by 43 international artists - exploring themes of compassion and empathy on a global level. Portions of the exhibit will be displayed in front of the Figge Art Museum, RiverCenter, and sky bridge, with the remainder displayed in LeClaire Park, and the exhibit is expected to attract 25,000 visitors - including more than 10,000 students - between August 31 and its close on September 27, 2007. Initiated by Jerusalem's Museum on the Seam in 2001 and sponsored by the Riverboat Development Authority, the artworks will be shown in conjunction with the Quad Cities' community-wide project "Coexistence: The Art of Living Together," and more information on the exhibit is available at (http://www.coexistence.art.museum). - Mike Schulz