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A multi-disciplinary audience of university faculty, includ- 

 ing chemists, biologists, archaeologists, and anthropologists, 

 artended this wotkshop. 



August 25 



■ Acquisition Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore), 1967, a 

 monumental steel sculpture by the American artist Mark di 

 Suvero (b. 1933), was installed as a new acquisition in the 

 street-level section of the Hirshhorn Museum's Sculpture 

 Garden along Jefferson Drive. The dynamic 40-foot-high 

 composition of bright-red I-beams fusing industrial engi- 

 neering, abstract art, and pute lyricism takes its title from a 

 poem by the American writer Marianne Moore 

 (1887-1972). Considered one of the artist's gteatest works, 

 it was acquired in part through the Joseph H. Hitshhorn 

 Purchase Fund and in part as a gift from the Institute of 

 Scrap Recycling Industries. Are Years What? affirms the au- 

 thority of the Hirshhorn's collection of monumental 

 contemporary sculpture. 



agement Team, Archives Division, Smithsonian Institution 

 Archives. 



September 



■ Publicity campaign The Office of Public Affairs' publicity 

 campaign for Hispanic Heritage Month included news re- 

 leases, radio advertisements on Spanish-language stations, 

 and ads in local Spanish-language newspapers. 



September 



■ Radio advertising campaign Beginning this month and 

 continuing fot six months, the Office of Public Affairs 

 bought commercial time on WTOP radio, the dominant 

 news-talk station in the Washington, D.C., area, to run ad- 

 vertisements called "Inside the Smithsonian." They were 

 broadcast every Friday morning during drive time and fea- 

 tured information for area residents on everything from 

 what's new at the museums to the latest artifact acquisition. 



August 28 



■ Event The Visitor Information and Associates' Reception 

 Centet hosted a pre-La Cumbre trade show breakfast for na- 

 tional tout operatots with the Washington, D.C. Convention 

 and Visitor Association. 



September 



■ Exhibition The gondola of Breitling Otbiter 3, which 

 completed the first non-stop balloon flight around the 

 world, went on display in the National Ait and Space Mu- 

 seum's Milestones of Flight gallery. 



September 



■ Exhibition "Posted Aboard the RMS Titanic" opens at the 

 National Postal Museum. 



September 



■ Research result SAO scientists aid in the discovery of three 

 new moons around Uranus. 



September 



■ Scientist appointment Dr. Peter Marra is hired as SERC 

 Staff Scientist and Principal Investigator in terrestrial animal 

 ecology with emphasis on avian ecology. 



September 4 



■ Exhibition The SITES exhibition "Women of Taste: A 

 Collaboration Celebrating Quilt Artists and Chefs" pre- 

 miered at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. The two 

 exhibitions, each of 50 dynamic culinary quilts, was the re- 

 sult of pairing women chefs and quiltets together. 



September 



■ Lecture series A 10-part evening lecture series entitled 

 "An Ecological History of the Chesapeake Bay" began at 

 SERC's Philip D. Reed Education Center. 



September 



■ Publication Information was provided and reviewed by 

 Frank Millikan and Marc Rothenberg of the Joseph Henry, 

 Papers Project, Smithsonian Institution Archives, for a fea- 

 tured article about Joseph Henry, which appeared in the 

 syndicated Mini Page. 



September 



■ Publication The report "Smithsonian Institution Archives 

 Appraisal Methodology" was written by the Records Man- 



September 1 



■ Donation The Paul Singer Collection, more than 5,000 

 objects of which a majority are from ancient China, was 

 given to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery jointly by The 

 Arthur M. Sackler Foundation; Paul Singer; the AMS Foun- 

 dation for Arts, Sciences and Humanities; and the childten 

 of Arthur M. Sackler. This represented the latgest acquisi- 

 tion of Chinese art the Sackler Gallery has received since it 

 opened in 1997. 



September 10 



■ Staff appointment Kenneth J. Myers, a specialist in nine- 

 teenth- and twentieth-century American painting and 

 photography joined the staff of the Freer Gallery of Art and 

 Arthur M. Sackler Gallery as assistant curator of American 



