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merit of the Interior, was on view at the Buffalo and Erie 

 County Historical Society in Buffalo, New York. 



December 22 



■ Donation The National Postal Museum received an 1873 

 Government Printing Office Album of U.S. Post Office 

 Department blank forms for bureau use from Myron and 

 Judith Kaller. 



December 28 



■ Award The Visitor Information and Associates' Reception 

 Center's "Encyclopedia Smithsonian" Web site received a 

 USA Today "Hot Site" award for its stellar content. 



December 31 -January 2 



■ Special event "America's Millennium on the Mall," a series 

 of events held over the New Year's holiday weekend, was pro- 

 duced by the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in 

 cooperation with the White House Millennium Council to 

 mark the transition to the year 2000 by honoring the past and 

 imagining the future. More than three dozen sessions were 

 held around the Institution and included a visit by the First 

 Family and discussions and presentations by B.B. King, Bill 

 Ferris, Ricky Skaggs, Bill Ivey, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, 

 basketball legends Bill Russell and Chamique Holdsclaw, and 

 chefs Martin Yan, Raji Jallepalli, and Vertamae Grosvenor. 



January 



■ Construction contract The Office of Contracting awarded a 

 construcrion contract to Beta Construction for roof repairs 

 and skylight replacements at the National Museum of Nat- 

 ural History. 



January 



■ Event In January, the Smithsonian Board of Regents 

 voted to name the National Air and Space Museum's new 

 aviation and space center at Washington Dulles Interna- 

 tional Airport for Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, who donated $60 

 million to help build the center. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy 

 Center will open in December 2003 to celebrate the centen- 

 nial of the first powered flight. 



January 



■ Event John R. (Jack) Dailey, retired U.S. Marine Corps 

 general and pilot, assumed the duties of direcror of the 

 National Air and Space Museum. General Dailey came to 

 the museum from the National Aeronaurics and Space 

 Administration (NASA), where he had been the Associate 

 Deputy Administrator since retiring from the U.S. Marine 

 Corps in 1992. 



January 



■ Public programs The Smithsonian Center for Museum 

 Srudies selects the Archives of American Art as one of three 



Smithsonian units who will participate in the new Katzen- 

 berger Foundation Art Internships, beginning in Summer 



2000. 



January 



■ Web site launch The Office of Public Affairs launched its 

 Smithsonian Logo Web site, which contains all of the infor- 

 mation and Lock-ups found in the Smithsonian Design 

 Guidelines, governing the Visual Identity Program. In addi- 

 tion, the Web site contains tips for correct use of the 

 guidelines and every unit's assigned logo in five download- 

 able graphic file formats. 



January 



■ Web site "This Day in Smithsonian History," a Web site 

 that highlights important events in the history of the 

 Institution for every day of the year, was posted on the 

 Smithsonian's intranet, Prism, and on the Smithsonian's 

 public Web site. 



January 



■ Special event This is the last day the Smithsonian Ameri- 

 can Art Museum is open to the public before its historic 

 home, the Old Patent Office, undergoes extensive renova- 

 tions expected to take four years. 



January 1 



■ New media initiative The Smithsonian American Art Mu- 

 seum launched a redesigned Web site as the museum went 

 virtual while its main building closed for renovations. New 

 features include, a splashy new design, a monthly calendar 

 called "100 1 Days and Nights of American Art" that offers 

 American art facts and features American artists and objects 

 from the museum's collection and an on-line gallery talk 

 called "Director's Choice" about an individual artwork by 

 the museum's director Elizabeth Broun. This colorful site 

 reaches out to virtual museum viewers as a reminder that the 

 museum's collection can still be enjoyed daily. 



January 6-9 



■ Public program The National Portrait Gallery presented a 

 Cultures in Motion presentation of "Scenes from Arthur 

 Miller," a four-part selection of scenes by the dean of Ameri- 

 can playwrights, Arrhur Miller, followed by a discussion of 

 the play with director/dramaturge William Largess of the 

 Washington Stage Guild. Part 1: The Crucible: part 2: Death 

 of a Salesman] part 3: All My Sons; and part 4: After the Fall. 

 The program was sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company. 



January 7 



■ Exhibition "Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from 

 the Smithsonian American Art Museum," the debut exhibi- 

 tion in the tour "Treasures to Go," opened in Miami at The 



