of the coral reef. Guests grazed through the Zoo on sam- 

 plings from ioo of Washington's finest restaurants, then 

 danced to live music provided by the legendary Orioles, 

 the fabulous Hubcaps, and other entertainers. In the 

 past three years, ZooFari has raised more than $200,000 

 for Zoo conservarion, education, and exhibition 

 programs. 



May 20— September 1 



■ Exhibit "American Families in Photographs," a Na- 

 tional Museum of American History display of historic 

 photographs from the collection, examined the chang- 

 ing ways American families have been photographed 

 since the mid-nineteenth century. Photographs of Nikki 

 Giovanni and her son, Ernest Hemingway and his son, 

 and Theodore Roosevelt's family were included. 



May 21-2} 



■ Symposium Two dozen textile conservators from all 

 over the United States gathered at the Conservation 

 Analytical Laboratory to attend the symposium "Four 

 Approaches to Textile Conservation" in which four 

 textile conservators of international renown discussed 

 their individual approaches to a variety of problems put 

 forward by the attendees. Discussions addressed various 

 conceptual and methodological approaches to preserva- 

 tion, care, restoration, and research on historical textiles 

 for conservators. 



May 22 



■ Meeting The Provost convened a meeting of the 11- 

 member Accessibility Oversight Council to assist rhe 

 Smithsonian Accessibility Program in developing 

 recommendations for Institutional priorities on acces- 

 sibility for people with disability. 



May 23 



■ Recording Release The Center for Folklife Programs 

 and Cultural Studies supported a kickoff event on the 

 National Mall to announce a major new recording, 

 American Warriors: Songs for Indian Veterans. The 

 Rykodisc release is a compilation of songs honoring 

 Indian veterans of all branches of the armed forces. 

 Produced in collaboration with the National Museum of 

 the American Indian, Rykodisc, and the National 

 Congress of the American Indian, the event featured a 



performance and remarks, and was held on the future 

 siteofNMAI. 



May 2J 



■ Special Event The National Portrait Gallery with the 

 Smithsonian Associates and the National Museum of 

 American History, cosponsored "The Prince of Broad- 

 way: An Evening with Hal Prince," an evening of 

 reminiscences with Tony Award— winning producer and 

 director Hal Prince and Amy Henderson and Dwight 

 Blocker Bowers, curators of the exhibition "Red, Hot & 

 Blue: A Salute to American Musicals." The evening was 

 videotaped for broadcast on the Ovation arts cable 

 network. 



May 2J 



■ Program The Office of Smithsonian Institution 

 Archives created an Electronic Records Program to 

 develop Institution-wide policies on electronic records 

 and to provide guidance to all SI staff on the creation, 

 receipt, and disposition of electronically generated 

 information. 



May 28 



■ Open House OHR held its first ever open house in 

 the S. Dillon Ripley Center. More than 1,000 employees 

 attended and were able to speak one-on-one with OHR 

 represenratives about career enhancement, benefits, 

 policy issues, employee assistance, family leave 

 programs, and more. 



May 29-June 8 



■ Exhibition The National Postal Museum participated 

 in the PACIFIC 97 international philatelic exposition. 



June 



■ Publications Two important publications appeared: 

 (1) Paris: A Guide to Archival Sources for American Art His- 

 tory by Susan Grant, Coordinator of the Archives' Paris 

 Survey Projecr. This monograph was underwritten by a 

 grant from the Florence Gould Foundation, a supporter 

 of cooperative French-American ventures. (2) A Finding 

 Aid to the Walter Pach Papers by Nancy Malloy, Archives 

 Reference Specialist in the New York Research Center, 

 and Catherine Stover, Archivist in the Washington 

 Processing Center. The Walter Pach papers were ac- 



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