120 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1960 



ADVISORY BOARD 



A meeting of the Advisory Board was held on December 16, 1959. 

 The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution welcomed the new mem- 

 bers of the Board, Maj. Gen. Brooke C. Allen, U.S.A.F., and Rear 

 Adm. P. D. Stroop, U.S.N. The Board expressed approval of changing 

 the name of the National Air Museum to the National Air and Space 

 Museum, at an appropriate time, to reflect the widening responsi- 

 bility of the Museum in the field of historic space flight. The Board 

 also discussed generally the requirements for the new Air Museum 

 building. 



SPECIAL EVENTS 



A number of presentation ceremonies of note were held during the 

 year. Among these were the presentation of a sculpture of James 

 H. Doolittle by H. S. M. Burns, president of the Shell Oil Co.; 

 the C. G. B. Stuart collection of aviation books by Richard Fell, 

 president of the National Aviation Club; and an Atlas rocket and 

 nose cone by the Secretary of the Air Force, Dudley C. Sharp. The 

 Atlas ceremony was combined with the Langley Medal award, post- 

 humously, to Dr. Robert H. Goddard. Senator Clinton P. Ander- 

 son, regent, presented the medal to ^Irs. Goddard, and Congressman 

 Overton Brooks, Smithsonian regent, accepted the Atlas for the 

 museum. 



A six weeks' course in air and space science, for graduate credit, was 

 held at the Air Musemn in cooperation with American University. 

 Funds from the Link Foundation provided scholarships for the seven 

 mathematics and science teachers who completed the course. 



The Director attended the annual conference of the National Avia- 

 tion Education Council at Denver, Colo., and addressed a panel on the 

 "International and Economic Aspects of the Space Age." He also 

 addressed the annual alumni meeting of the Academy of Aeronautics 

 in New York. 



Paul E. Garber, head curator and historian of the Air Museum, was 

 honored at the Denver Conference of the National Aviation Education 

 Council as the recipient of the National Frank G. Brewer Trophy. 

 This award for outstanding service in aviation education was made by 

 Jacqueline Cochran, president of the National Aeronautic Association. 



Mr. Garber represented the Museum at a number of a\dation meet- 

 ings during the year, including the Air Force Historical Association 

 and the Honors Night banquet of the American Helicopter Society. 

 He delivered 30 lectures during the year, including one at the U.S. 

 Air Force Academy. 



