SECRETARY'S REPORT 109 



1957 



April 23-25. Mr. Wenley, in Princeton, N. J., attended sessions of the Amer- 



ican Oriental Society, and in the absence of Dr. Schuyler 

 Caminann, presided as chairman at the meeting of the Far 

 Eastern Section. 



April 26. Mr. Wenley and Dr. Ettinghausen, in New York, examined 



objects at dealers. Attended the dinner and formal open- 

 ing of the Kevorkian Gallery of Ancient Near Eastern Art 

 at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. 



April 27. Mr. Wenley and Dr. Ettinghausen, in New York, examined 



objects at dealers. 



May 21. Mrs. Lnor O. West, in Chicago, attended the Museum Store 



Association meeting at the Art Institute of Chicago. 



May 25-26. Mr. Wenley, in St. Louis, Mo., attended the Association of 



Art Museum Directors meetings at the City Art Museum. 



June 3-5. Mr. Gettens, in Winterthur, Del., attended the symposium on 



Museum Operation and Connoisseurship and participated 

 in the round-table discussion on "Case Study, Identifying 

 and Interpreting an Object" at the Henry Francis du Pont 

 Winterthur Museum. 



June 24-26. Mrs. Bertha M. Usilton, at Kansas City, Mo., attended the 



annual meeting and Art Reference Round Table of the 

 American Library Association. 



June 25-28. Mr. Gettens, in Boston, examined objects at the Fogg Art 



Museum in connection with his technical projects. 



Members of the staff held honorary posts, received recognition, and 

 undertook additional duties outside the Gallery as follows : 



Mr. Wenley : Research Professor of Oriental Art, Department of Fine 



Arts, University of Michigan. 



Member, Visiting Committee, Board of Overseers of Dum- 

 barton Oaks Research Library and Collection. 



Member, Smithsonian Art Commission. 



Member, Advisory Committee on Exchange in the Arts, De- 

 partment of State, United States Advisory Commission on 

 Educational Exchanges. 



Member, Smithsonian Institution Sub-Committee on Re- 

 search Programs. 



Chairman, Louise Wallace Hackney Scholarship Committee 

 of the American Oriental Society. 



Vice President, Textile Museum, Washington, D. C. 



Vice President, Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. 

 Dr. Pope : Member, Visiting Committee, Board of Overseers of Harvard 



College to the Department of Far Eastern Civilizations. 



Member, Editorial Board, Archives of the Chinese Art So- 

 ciety of America. 



President, Far Eastern Ceramic Group. 



Made three tape recordings for Radio Sarawak, Kuching: 

 (1) An interview with Tom Harrisson, Curator, Sarawak 

 Museum, about Dr. Pope's interest in the ancient Chinese 

 porcelain trade; (2) an interview by Mr. Harrisson on 

 Dr. Pope's impressions of the excavations made by Mr. 

 Harrisson in the Santubong delta; (3) a talk on Charles 

 Lang Freer and the Freer Gallery of Art. 



