sions for 15 New York City public school discricts. The 

 districts, representing all the schools (kindergarten 

 through twelfth grade) in Queens and Manhattan, 

 developed strategic plans to improve the teaching of 



October 6— January 28 



■ Exhibition "Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture" 

 was on view at the National Portrait Gallery. This was 

 the first major retrospective in more than twenty years 

 of one of America's most sought-after portrait painters 

 at the turn of the century. Beaux 's grand manner 

 portraits are often compared with those of John Singer 

 Sargent. On view wete seventy of her portraits, along 

 with letters and othet materials. Among those repre- 

 sented wete Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her daughter 

 Ethel, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Phelps Stokes, Richard Wat- 

 son Gilder, and Georges Clemenceau. 



The Smithsonian Associates. Voyages and Visions and re- 

 lated educational programs are made possible by a 

 generous grant from the Boeing Company. Funding in 

 support of the exhibition publication (copublished with 

 the University of Washington Press) was provided by 

 Shell Inrernational Petroleum Company, Ltd. Addition- 

 al funding was provided by the Drue Heinz Foundation 

 and the British Council. 



October 11-14 



■ Institute The National Science Resources Center, As- 

 sociation of Science Materials Centers, and NSRC spon- 

 sors cohosted the Advanced Science Education 

 Leadership Institute in Mesa, Arizona. Sevenry school 

 district teams from across the U.S. shated strategies and 

 resources for reforming science education. 



October 12 



October 7-8 



■ Symposium The National Museum of the American 

 Indian hosted its first public symposium, "The Chang- 

 ing Presentation of the American Indian," at the Heye 

 Center in New York Ciry. Prominent Native and non- 

 Native scholars presented papets and discussed the 

 presentation of the American Indian in museums and 

 the media over the past few decades. 



October 8 



■ Special Event The National Zoo hosted the fifth an- 

 nual Smithsonian Fiesta Musical. Thousands of visitors 

 enjoyed musical and dance performances, Latin 

 American foods, craft demonstrations, storytelling and 

 animal demonstrations narrated in Spanish. The event 

 was part of the Smithsonian Hispanic Heritage month 

 celebration. 



October 10 



■ Exhibition Voyages and Visions: Nineteenth-Century Im- 

 ages of the hUddle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum. 

 an exhibition developed by the Smithsonian Institution 

 Traveling Exhibition Service, made its U.S. debut in the 

 Smithsonian's International Gallery. The exhibition, 

 which coincided with the annual meeting of the Middle 

 Eascern Studies Association, was the subject of 

 numerous lectures and workshop demonstrations spon- 

 sored by the International Gallery and classes hosted by 



■ Program "Models of Excellence in Administration: 

 A Conversation with Recipients of the Robert A. 

 Brooks Award," was presented by the Center for 

 Museum Studies. 



October 12 



■ New Technology The Office of Membership and 

 Development installed the DonorWise membership 

 database system. A specialized company began handling 

 the data entry, enabling the Contributing Membership 

 staff to focus exclusively on member relations and cus- 

 tomer service. 



October /J 



■ Public Program "How Should We Talk About Race 

 in America? A Public Dialogue About Black-Brown 

 Relations" featured a conversation between Jorge Klor 

 de Alva, professor ot ethnic studies and anthropology at 

 the University of California, Berkeley, and Cornel West, 

 professor of religion and African American studies at 

 Harvard University. The dialogue focused on the broad 

 question of national race relations as well as the ideas of 

 mestizaje. self-definition, and self-reptesentation. 



October 1} 



■ Exhibition During this 150th anniversary year of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the National Zoological Park 

 continued its metamorphosis into a Biological Park to 



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