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foreign students, religious organizations, Girl Scouts, 4-H Clubs, 

 conventions, and local chapters of women's organizations. 



The program of training volunteer docents continued, and during 

 the fiscal year 1960 special instruction was given to 100 volunteers. 

 By special arrangement with the school systems of the District of 

 Columbia and surromiding counties of Maryland and Virginia these 

 volunteers conducted tours for 1,266 classes with a total of 46,584 

 children, an increase of 6,229 children visiting the National Gallery 

 of Art. 



The staff of the Educational Office delivered six lectures in the 

 auditorium on Sunday afternoons and 30 lectures were given by guest 

 speakers. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis delivered the Ninth Annual 

 Series of the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, beginning on 

 February 21, for six consecutive Sundays. His subject was Horace 

 Walpole. 



The Educational Office now has 10 sets of traveling exhibitions and 

 an exhibition publicizing teachers' aids offered by the department. 

 These are lent free of charge except for transportation costs to schools, 

 clubs, libraries, and universities throughout the country. The ex- 

 hibitions were circulated to 42 such places with an estimated total of 

 20,000 persons viewing them. 



Fifteen copies of the film "Your National Galleiy of Art" were on 

 permanent loan in distributiton centers ; three copies of the new film 

 "Art in the Western World" were circulated through the Educational 

 Office to 44 borrowei^3. This latter film is sold through Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica Films, Inc. A few copies of a film, made from a television 

 show, entitled "Time Enough To See a World" have been deposited 

 in the Educational Office. 



The slide library has a total of 40,624 slides in the permanent and 

 lending collections. During the year 3,018 slides were added to the 

 collection; 1,118 borrowers used 41,601 slides from the lending col- 

 lection. 



A number of slide lectures consisting of color slides and a lecture 

 text are available to schools, clubs, and churches on a loan basis. 



Members of the staff participated in outside lectures, and taught 

 night classes in the local universities. Four new slide lectures were 

 completed, and illustrated booklets on three schools of painting repre- 

 sented in the National Galleiy of Ait. were completed by the staff 

 members. 



A printed calendar of events announcing the Gallery's activities 

 and publications was prepared by the Educational Office and dis- 

 tributed monthly to a mailing list of 7,200 names. 



The staff members prepared and delivered 16 new 10-minute talks 

 over radio station WGMS during the intermissions of the Sunday 

 evening concert broadcasts. 



