STAFF OF THE MUSEUM 



Bryan Patterson, who resigned his curatorship of fossil mammals 

 in June, 1955, to become Alexander Agassiz Professor of Vertebrate 

 Paleontology at Harvard University, was elected Research Associate 

 in the Division of Fossil Vertebrates by the Board of Trustees. 

 Roland W. Force, formerly of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in 

 Honolulu, joined the staff of this Museum in June as Curator of 

 Oceanic Archaeology and Ethnology immediately following his 

 return from field work in Micronesia under the auspices of the 

 Tri-Institutional Pacific Program. Other appointments during the 

 year were: Miss Eugenia Bernoff, Library; Walter Boyer, Ceramic 

 Restorer, Department of Anthropology; Almon Cooley, Assistant 

 Preparator, Harris Extension; Bruce Erickson, Preparator, Depart- 

 ment of Geology; Albert William Forslev, Associate Curator, Di- 

 vision of Mineralogy and Petrology; Miss Marilyn Jaskiewicz, 

 Secretary, Department of Botany; Miss Marion Pahl, Staff Illus- 

 trator; and Dr. G. Alan Solem, Assistant, Lower Invertebrates. 



Miss Marion K. Hoffmann, Assistant Auditor, became Acting 

 Auditor upon the resignation of Robert A. Krueger, Auditor; Mrs. 

 M. Eileen Rocourt, in charge of classifying and cataloguing in the 

 Library, was appointed Associate Librarian; Henry Horback, Pre- 

 parator in the Department of Geology, was made Assistant in 

 Geology; and Mrs. Maryl Andre" was transferred from the Library 

 to Raymond Foundation. Resignations during the year were: Miss 

 Laura Brodie, Assistant, Department of Zoology; Cameron E. Gif- 

 ford, Preparator, Department of Geology; Mrs. Donna G. Grove, 

 Library; Mrs. Lorraine Kratz, Assistant Registrar; Robert A. 

 Krueger, Auditor; Miss M. Dianne Maurer, Secretary, Department 

 of Botany; Arthur J. Soderling, Assistant Preparator, Harris Ex- 

 tension; and Norman H. Suhr, Associate Curator, Geology. 



It is with deep regret that I record the death on April 11 of 

 Mrs. Emily M. Wilcoxson, former Librarian of the Museum who 

 faithfully served the Museum for almost forty-five years until her 

 retirement in 1950. I further record with deep regret the death 

 on June 26 of Miss Margaret M. Cornell, former Chief of James 

 Nelson and Anna Louise Raymond Foundation, who joined the 

 staff in 1926 and retired in 1939; the death on October 20 of Mrs. 

 Thresa Jurick, retired janitress who served the Museum for more 

 than twenty-five years; the death on June 8 of Leon L. Walters, 

 Taxidermist for forty- three years before his retirement in 1954; and 

 the death on December 27 of David Dunsmuir, Captain of the 

 Guard since 1953, who joined the Museum guard force in 1944. 



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