JAMES NELSON AND ANNA LOUISE RAYMOND 

 FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL AND 

 CHILDREN'S LECTURES 



The Raymond Foundation continued to develop its pattern of pro- 

 grams for (1) organized groups of children and students and for 

 (2) individual children and adults as worked out in past years. 

 Particularly have we stressed programs that would help as many 

 groups and individuals as possible with our limited staff of seven. 



Work with organized groups continued to be the larger part of 

 the program, although Raymond Foundation could not possibly 

 take care of all organized groups that came to the Museum, For 

 instance, 4,940 groups with 209,883 children and students registered 

 in the Museum in 1958. Not all of these needed help from Raymond 

 Foundation, but many did. Raymond Foundation helped 2,464 

 groups with 97,822 children and 59 groups with 1,737 adult students, 

 making a total of 2,523 organized groups with 99,559 children and 

 students of all ages. A waiting list of 297 groups of about 9,715 

 children and students was established in case of cancellations in 

 programs and tours. 



The peak load for organized groups of school children was reached 

 in the spring months of April and May and the fall months of October 

 and November. However, other months began to have larger at- 

 tendance; in fact, Raymond Foundation broke all previous records 

 for work with children in February, March, April, May, June, and 

 October. By thus spreading the programs for groups into more 

 months, Raymond Foundation was able to take care of about 22,500 

 more children in the Museum this year than in 1957 without lowering 

 the standards of work and programs. 



The need has grown for programs for a persistent but small 

 number of people (both adults and children) who are sincerely inter- 

 ested in seeing the Museum individually or with small family groups. 

 For these individuals we offered (1) the daily public tours (except 

 Sundays) — 282 tours with 4,232 persons, (2) miscellaneous tours 

 for adults — 24 tours with 551 persons, and (3) motion-picture pro- 

 grams for children — 32 programs with 22,242 children. We also 

 offered the Museum film "Through These Doors" (39 showings, 

 attendance 4,407) and the Museum Journey series for children (4 

 different Journeys in a year, 1,238 completed in 1958), This made 

 a total of 9,424 adults in 351 programs and 33,480 children in 361 

 programs, or a total of 32,904 individuals in 387 programs. (The 

 lecture series for adults given on Saturday afternoons in spring and 

 fall are not a function of Raymond Foundation — see page 30.) 



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