October 10 



October 20-23 



■ Public Program Nobel Peace Prize recipient Arch- 

 bishop Desmond Tutu addressed an audience of more 

 than 2,000 Smithsonian Associates and the general pub- 

 lic as part or an African American Srudies Forum enti- 

 tled "South Africa: After the Elections." 



October JJ 



■ Lecture "Amusing the Emperor: Unique Discoveries 

 from a Chinese Imperial Kiln," this year's John A. Pope 

 Memorial Lecture at the Freer Gallery of Art, was deliv- 

 ered by Liu Xinyuan, director of the Jingdezhen Insti- 

 tute of Ceramic Archaeology in China. 



October 14 



■ Major Gift The National Museum of Natural His- 

 tory received one of the most significant contributions 

 of jewelry and financial support in its history when Gil- 

 bert S. Kahn announced a new gift from his mother, 

 Janet Annenberg Hooker. Mrs. Hooker's gift included a 

 suite of rare fancy yellow starburst diamonds and $2 

 million toward the creation of the museum's Hall of 

 Geology, Gems, and Minerals, bringing her support for 

 the new hall to a total of S5 million. The complex will 

 be named in honor of Mrs. Hooker. 



October 15 



■ Honors Glenn O. Tupper was the Smithsonian 

 Benefactors' Circle Honoree and Lloyd G. Schermer was 

 presented with the Joseph Henry Medal at the 

 Smithsonian Benefactors' Circle recognition dinner. 



October l8~December 18 



■ Lecture Series Eight Nobel laureates in physics partic- 

 ipated in an unprecedented lecture series sponsored by 

 The Smithsonian Associates. The world-renowned phys- 

 icists recounted their prizewinning work and discussed 

 their current research. 



October ip 



■ Educational Publication The National Postal Museum 

 published the Elementary School Postal Pack, an activity 

 book and resource guide that integrates letter writing, 

 postal history, and stamp collecting into language arts, 

 history, geography, and math curnculums. 



■ Meeting The Smithsonian Council, a group of 25 in- 

 dividuals active in a variery of fields and disciplines, 

 met in Washington, D.C., to assess the Smithsonian's 

 anthropological and cultural studies programs as well as 

 programs of the Institution's conservation biology com- 

 munity and the Conservation Training Council. 



October 20 



■ Lecture The Smithsonian Accessibility Program pre- 

 sented "Behind the Desk: Accommodating Volunteers 

 with Disabilities" to staff from the Smithsonian and 

 Washington, D.C., cultural organizations. The program 

 was one of 10 monthly lectures on museum accessibility 

 for people with disabilities. 



October 21 



■ Public program A Southeast Asian Film Series spon- 

 sored by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery opened with the 

 Vietnamese film, "Abandoned Field," and went on to 

 show four other seldom-screened classic films, includ- 

 ing two directed by His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk of 

 Cambodia. 



October 24 



■ Major Gift The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation 

 made a $10 million contribution to the National Cam- 

 paign for the National Museum of the American In- 

 dian, at the time the largest contribution to the 

 Smithsonian in its 148-year history. 



October 2J 



■ Public program The Bill and Mary Meyer Concert Se- 

 ries of six evenings of chamber music opened with the 

 first of three appearances by Musicians from Marlboro. 

 Other performers this year were The Shanghai Quartet, 

 Pamela Frank, and the Takacs Quartet. 



October 27 



■ Visit Leszek Kuznicki, president of the Polish Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, visited the Smithsonian. 



October 28— February 26 



■ Exhibition "Free within Ourselves: African- 

 American Art from the Museum's Collection" was on 

 view at the National Museum ot American Art. Nearly 



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