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sistance of the Junior League of Washington, was transferred to the 
Smithsonian Museum Service, This program had been under the 
direction of Frank M. Setzler, head curator of anthropology, since 
its inception in 1955. This transfer was made in accord with the 
purposes for which the Museum Service was established. The pro- 
gram continued under the supervision of G. Carroll Lindsay, acting 
curator of the Smithsonian Museum Service, working with Mrs. Peter 
Macdonald, volunteer chairman of the Smithsonian Docent Commit- 
tee of the Junior League of Washington. After serving for 2 years 
as chairman of this committee, Mrs. Macdonald submitted her resig- 
nation at the conclusion of the tours season. She was succeeded 
as chairman by Mrs. C. Clarke Gearhart, formerly cochairman 
of the docent committee. Mrs. Dean Cowie will serve as co- 
chairman of the committee with Mrs. Gearhart. 
During the 6-month season beginning in October 1958, 398 tours 
were conducted, in which 11,996 children were escorted through the 
3 exhibit halls included in the docent program—the American Indian 
Hall, the Hall of Power Machinery, and the Hall of Everyday Life 
in Early America. This represented an increase of nearly 50 percent 
in the total number of children participating in this program over the 
previous year. 
In addition to Mrs. Macdonald and her cochairman, Mrs. Gearhart, 
the following members of the Junior League of Washington partici- 
pated in the docent work: Mrs. George Armstrong, Mrs. Harrison 
Brand III, Mrs. Dean Cowie, Mrs. Walter Edwards, Mrs. William 
Graves, Mrs. H. F. Gregory, Miss Mary Harbert, Mrs. Edward La- 
mont, Mrs. Ralph W. Lee III, Mrs. John Manfuso, Jr., Miss Grace 
C. Marshall, Mrs. William McClure, Jr., Mrs. Robert McCormick, 
Mrs, John A. Medaris, Mrs. William Minshall, Mrs. Minot Mulligan, 
Mrs. George Pendleton, Mrs. John Schoenfeld, Mrs. W. James Sears, 
Mrs. William D. Sloan, Jr., Mrs. Walter Slowinski, Mrs. James H. 
Stallings, Mrs. E. Tillman Stirling, Mrs. G. G. Thomas, Mrs. David 
Toll, Mrs. Richard Wallis, Mrs. Marc A. White, and Mrs. George 
A. Wyeth, Jr. 
In the coming season, the docent service will be extended to two 
more exhibit areas—the Hall of Gems and Minerals and the Hall of 
Textiles. 
BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT 
Senator Clinton P. Anderson, Regent of the Smithsonian Institution 
and chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Construction 
of a Building for a Museum of History and Technology, turned the 
first shovelful of earth on August 22, 1958, and excavation for the 
foundations was commenced immediately. At the close of the fiscal 
year the excavation and driving piles had been accomplished. Work- 
