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nor Parris Glendening and a message from the President of 

 the United States. 



September 



■ Award The Smithsonian American Art Museum and 

 Heritage Preservation were awarded the fourth International 

 Institute for Conservation's Keck Award for "Save Outdoor 

 Sculpture!" at the 18th International Congress in Mel- 

 bourne, Australia. 



zine was released, containing over five hours of music first 

 published in the historic Broadside magazine, which con- 

 tained thousands of songs that came out of the peace, labor, 

 and civil rights movements. 



September 1 



■ Appointment Anthony Coates appointed to the position of 

 Director for Scientific Research, Office of the Under Secre- 

 tary for Science. 



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. Thirty-second 

 spots ran twice a day from September 1 1 to October 14 on 

 Radio America, Radio Borinquen, and Radio Capital. Three 

 print ads ran, once each week, from mid-September into Oc- 

 tober, in El Pregonero and Tiempo Latino. 



September 



■ STC/MS Books The Narional Science Resources Center 

 completed field testing and released the first four of eight 

 modules in the Science and Technology Concepts for Middle 

 Schools project: Catastrophic Events: Energy. Machines, and 

 Motion; Human Body Systems; and Properties of Matter. These 

 STC/MS modules, geared for seventh grade, can be used in 

 sixth or eighth grade as well. They are designed to enable 

 middle school students to develop an understanding of 

 important science concepts by investigating scientific phe- 

 nomena. Students make observations, gather data, note 

 interesting patterns, identify cause-and-effect relationships, 

 and generate explanations based on their observations. Field 

 testing of the first four STC/MS modules was conducted in 

 19 school districts across the country. Following the publica- 

 tion of the student texts and teacher guides for each module, 

 more than 40 school districts nationwide have begun to im- 

 plement the program. 



September 



■ Educational outreach The Smithsonian American Art 

 Museum launched a new outreach initiative, "Have Art; 

 Will Travel." Docents from the museum visit community 

 organizations and senior citizen groups throughout the 

 Washington, D.C., metropolitan area to extend awareness of 

 the museum's collections to new audiences. 



September 



■ Exhibition "Town and Country" exhibition opens at the 

 National Postal Museum. 



September 



■ Recording release The Best of Broadside 1962— 1988: Anthems 

 of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Maga- 



September 5 



■ Educational outreach The Smithsonian American Art Mu- 

 seum announced that all "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" survey 

 reports — some 31,833 reports documenting the history and 

 condition of America's outdoor sculpture — have been en- 

 tered in a database that is accessible on-line through the 

 museum's Web site. 



September 9 



■ Agreement The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler 

 Gallery signed an agreement with the Golestan Palace in 

 Tehran to study and copublish an imperial Mughal manu- 

 script of the early seventeenth century. The agreement marks 

 the first time in over 20 years that cultural contact between 

 Iran and the United States has been established. 



September 9 



■ Exhibition/partnership Building on a strategic relationship 

 with Silver Dollar City (theme park) in Branson, Missouri, 

 SITES embarked on its third successful partnership with this 

 popular for-profit destination. The exhibition "Heart & 

 Hands: Musical Instrument Makers of America" celebrates 

 the American artisans who are keeping alive the age-old 

 tradition of designing and hand-crafting fine musical instru- 

 ments. The alliance between SITES and Silver Dollar City is 

 important because the park's large visitorship — 1.8 million 

 visitors a year, all ages, drawn mostly from the South and 

 Midwest — generates high visibility for the Smithsonian and 

 its exhibitions. 



September 12 



■ Exhibition "The Opulent Eye of Alexander Girard," 

 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. 



September 12 



■ Premiere The San Diego Natural History Museum affiliate 

 held the international premiere of its IMAX® film Ocean 

 Oasis at the Johnson IMAX® Theater at the National Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. 



September 14 



■ Exhibiton "The Collection in Context: Horace Pippin's 

 Holy Mountain III, " an interpretive presentation probing the 



