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percent of all Tibetan Americans came together for the first 

 time. The day culminated with a 10,000-light offering that 

 night. 



My 2 



■ Concert "Ear to the Ground: A Cenrenary Tribute to 

 Malvina Reynolds" featured songs written by the late 

 Malvina Reynolds, with lyrics reflecting the social justice 

 and environmental issues of her day. Performers included 

 Rosalie Sorrels, Tom Paxton, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and 

 Peggy Seeger. The concert was held as part of the Smithson- 

 ian Folklife Festival, produced by the Center for Folklife and 

 Cultural Heritage. 



July 2 



'Public address His Holiness the Dalai Lama, spiritual and 

 temporal leader of the Tibetan people, gave his first tree 

 public address in Washington in conjunction with the 

 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, produced by the Centet for 

 Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The talk was attended by ap- 

 proximately 50,000 people and was broadcast live in English 

 and Tibetan to Tibetans everywhere by Radio Free Asia. 



July 3 



■ Concert "Woody Guthrie's Songs for Children" featured 

 Ella Jenkins, Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, and 

 Magpie. The concert was held as part of the Smithsonian 

 Folklife Festival, produced by the Center for Folklife and 

 Cultural Heritage. 



July 7 



■ Grant President Clinton announced a federal grant of 

 $750,000 from the Save America's Treasures program to help 

 save 10,000 of America's historical audio recordings at the 

 Smithsonian Instirution and the Library of Congress. These 

 sound recordings document some of the most significant ex- 

 periences of the American people over the past 100 years. 

 Publicly known as "Save Our Sounds," rhe grant matks a 

 major collaboration between the Smithsonian Center for 

 Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the Library of Congress 

 American Folklife Center. 



July 10 



■ Staff appointment The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 

 Garden announced the appointment of Kerry Brougher, 

 Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, as 

 Chief Curator. The Illinois-born Brougher, co-curator of the 

 Ed Ruscha retrospective, headed an innovative program of 

 exhibitions at Oxford that included, among others, a major 

 touring show of 1999 entitled "Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock 

 and Contemporary Art," which traveled to Australia, 

 Canada, Denmark, and Spain. "Jeff Wall," another show or- 

 ganized by Brougher when he was curator at the Museum of 

 Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, was seen at the Hirshhorn 



in 1997. Brougher succeeded Neal Benezra, who became 

 Deputy Directot and The Frances and Thomas Dirtmer 

 Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Insti- 

 tute of Chicago. 



July 15 



■ Grant Dr. Ed Vicenzi, Department of Mineral Sciences, 

 is co-Principal Investigator on an NSF grant with Peter 

 Heaney (Penn State University). The project is titled "A 

 mantle or crustal origin for carbonado? Synthesis and micro- 

 analytical studies of polycrystalline diamond." The award is 

 $149,767 and will be administered through Penn State. 



July 18-19 



■ Interview Chief (James) Bey, a percussionist and dancer, 

 was interviewed for the Smithsonian Institution Jazz Oral 

 History Program. The Jazz Oral History Program is part of 

 America's Jazz Heritage, a partnership of the Lila Wallace- 

 Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution. 



July 23-28 



■ LASER event The National Science Resources Center's 

 Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform 

 (LASER) initiative is designed to reach school districts 

 through eight regional partnerships involving universities, 

 corporations, state departments of education, and the Na- 

 tional Science Foundation Systemic Initiative Projects. 

 LASER programs encourage districts to address the National 

 Science Education Standards as well as state and local stan- 

 dards in developing their reform strategies. A six-day 

 LASER event is called a Strategic Planning Institute, which 

 consists of interactive workshops and discussions during 

 which leadership teams develop five-year strategic plans to 

 reform K-8 science education in their districts. Each year the 

 NSRC hosts a national Strategic Planning Institute in Wash- 

 ington, D.C. The 2000 national institute brought faculty 

 from all eight LASER regions to share best practices with 

 representatives from school districts across the country 



and from Mexico. In late July, the LASER staff hosted 16 

 leadership teams from school districts nationwide plus 

 several special teams and participants, including a represen- 

 tative from the U.S. -Mexico Foundation for Science. The 16 

 teams represented school districts with 573 K-8 schools, 

 more than 20,000 K-8 teachers, and approximately 375,000 

 K-8 students. 



July 24 



■ Exhibition The Lance Armstrong exhibition opens at the 

 National Postal Museum. 



July 24-November 1 



■ Exhibition "Rube Goldberg: Comic Art and Invention," 

 a showcase at the National Museum of American History, 

 looks at twentieth-century America's (and Rube Goldberg's) 



