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through the Smithsonian museums. The program was carried out 

 through the cooperation of curator G. Carroll Lindsay, Smithsonian 

 Museum Service, with Mrs. E. Tillman Stirling, chairman of the 

 League's docent committee, and Mrs. Vernon KJiight, cochairman. 

 Mrs. Knight will serve as chairman for the forthcoming year, with 

 Mrs. Dickson R. Loos as cochairman. 



During the 1961-62 school year 20,880 children were conducted on 

 720 tours, representing a 24-percent increase over the previous year's 

 participation. 



Tours were conducted in the halls of everyday life in early America, 

 Indians of the Americas, and textiles, for grades 3 through 6, and 

 in the halls of gems and minerals and power machinery, for grade 5 

 through junior high school. Four tours each day, 5 days a week, 

 were offered every half hour from 10 through 11 :30 a.m. in the 

 halls of everyday life in early America and in Indians of the Americas. 

 Tours in the hall of gems and minerals were conducted on Monday 

 through Friday at 10 and 11 a.m. To meet the increasing demand 

 for docent service in this hall, tours were occasionally offered at noon 

 and at 1 p.m., in addition to the tours offered in the morning. Two 

 tours daily during school days were offered in the power machinery 

 and textile halls. 



Tours were conducted from October 16, 1961, through May 25, 1962, 

 with the exception of the month of April 1962, when tours were sus- 

 pended because of the exceedingly heavy visitor traffic in all museum 

 halls during the Easter and cherry-blossom seasons. The great 

 number of visitors to the Smithsonian museums during the early 

 spring so overcrowd the exhibition halls that the usual group tours 

 cannot be satisfactorily conducted. 



In addition to Mrs. Stirling and Mrs. Knight, the members of the 

 League's docent committee were: Mrs. George Armstrong, Mrs. A. 

 Stuart Baldwin, Miss Janet W. Barfield, Mrs. Thad H. Brown, Jr., 

 Mrs. Thomas R. Gate, Mrs. Thomas K. Clarke, Mrs. Dean B. Cowie, 

 Mrs. William Dixon, Mrs. Rockwood Foster, Mrs. Clark GearhaTt, 

 Mrs. George Gerber, Mrs. Robert H. Harwood, Mrs. Everett Hutchin- 

 son, Mrs. Charles J. Kelly, Jr., Mrs. J. H. Lasley, Mrs. Ralph W. Lee 

 III, Mrs. Dickson R. Loos, Mrs. John Manfuso, Jr., Mrs. Ernest May, 

 Mrs. William McClure, Mrs. Robert McCormick, Mrs. Arnold B. 

 McKinnon, Mrs. Peter Macdonald, Mrs. Joseph Metcalf , Mrs. William 

 Minshall, Jr., Mrs. L. Edgar Prina, Mrs. Robert E. Rogers, Mrs. W. 

 James Sears, Mrs. Walter Slowinski, Mrs. Joseph Smith, Jr., Mrs. 

 James H. Stallings, Jr., IMrs. David Toll, Mrs. John S. Voorhees, Mrs. 

 Richard Wallis, and Mrs. Marc A. White. 



The Institution deeply appreciates the able and devoted efforts of 

 these volimteers, whose services to the schools of the Washington- area 



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