68 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



Teclmology were the appointments of Miss Deborah J. Mills, assistant 

 curator in the chairman's office, Department of Science and Technol- 

 ogy, on July 16, 1963 ; Miss Rita J. Adrosko, associate curator in the di- 

 vision of textiles. Department of Arts and Manufactures, on August 4, 

 1963 ; Miss Aime Castrodale, assistant curator, growth of the United 

 States, Department of Civil History, on September 29, 1963 ; and Miss 

 Uta C. Merzbach, associate curator, division of physical sciences, De- 

 partment of Science and Technology, on October 28, 1963. 



Mrs. Agnes Chase, world-famous agrostologist and Smithsonian 

 honorary research associate, died on September 24, 1963. 



Francis J. McCall, curator of the division of philately and postal 

 history, died on July 20, 1963. He had headed the division since No- 

 vember 6, 1962, and had just begun to see the results of some of the 

 fine programs he had inaugurated. 



Miss Ellen Joy Finnegan, assistant curator in the section of 

 growth of the United States, left the Museum of History and Tech- 

 nology on August 14, 1963, to accept a teaching position in Thailand. 

 Junior curator Barbara F. Bode resigned from the numismatics di- 

 vision on September 20, 1963, and Anthony W. Hathaway, assistant 

 curator in the division of cultural history, resigned on June 23, 1964. 



Mrs. Jacqueline S. Olin became the research chemist to assist the 

 conservator-in-charge of the conservation research laboratory on June 

 21, 1964. 



Bela S. Bory, production supervisor of the Museum of History and 

 Teclmology exhibits laboratory, accepted another governmental po- 

 sition and left the office of exhibits on Jmie 27, 1964. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Frank A. Taylor, Director. 

 S. Dillon Ripley, 



Secretary^ Smithsonian Institution. 



