July 17 



July 1 8- August $ 



■ Office Established The Office of the Chief Financial 

 Officer was established by memo from the Under 

 Secretary, as part of a reorganization of offices reporting 

 to the Under Secretary. It included the abolishment of 

 the position of Assistant Secretary for Finance and Ad- 

 ministration, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

 Finance and the Office of the Assistant Secretary. The 

 position of Chief Financial Officer was given respon- 

 sibility for the Offices of the Comptroller, Contracting 

 and Property Management, Sponsored Projects and 

 Risk and Asset Management. Rick Johnson was ap- 

 pointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer. 



July ij— September 1 



■ Exhibition "Southern Crossroads," produced by the 

 Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies with 

 The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cul- 

 tural Olympiad in cooperation with the Southern Arts 

 Federation, was a festival of the American South in Cen- 

 tennial Olympic Park for the Atlanta Olympics. 



July 18-August 5 



■ Marketplace The Center for Folklife Programs and 

 Cultural Studies produced and operated the Southern 

 Marketplace store at the Centennial Olympic Games in 

 Atlanta. The store offered regional crafts, foods, books, 

 and recordings. 



■ Expedition Dr. Clyde Roper, invertebrate zoologist at 

 the National Museum of Natural History, completed 

 the first phase of a three-part quest to be the first per- 

 son ever to document living giant squid. Working in 

 the Atlantic off the Azores, sailing a 112-year-old her- 

 ring catcher, Roper and colleagues observed hunting 

 and feeding behavior of sperm whales, major predators 

 of giant squid, and tested the feasibility of using the 

 whales as hound dogs in later phases of the project. 

 Using whales as cameramen via the Critter Cam — a 

 pressure-sealed package of video and sound recorders, 

 and other instruments developed by National Geographic 

 Television — Roper and his colleagues achieved a number 

 of scientific firsts, including the first precise dive profile of 

 a sperm whale, first observations of social behavior among 

 rhe whales at significant ocean depths, and the best 

 hydroacoustic data to date on the species. 



July 18 



■ Exhibition "Directions — Byron Kim: Grey-Green," 

 an exhibition often abstract canvases by this New York 

 painter (b. 1961) based on his response to the color and 

 cultural importance of Korean celadon ceramics, opened 

 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with a 

 gallery talk by the artist. Kim returned several weeks 

 later to participate in a panel, "The Production of 

 Beauty," with curators Phyllis Rosenzweig of the 

 Hirshhorn, who organized the show, and Louise Cort of 

 the Freer Gallery of Art, where examples of K^ryo 

 celadon pottery had provided inspiration for most of the 

 paintings on view. A free, illustrated brochure with 

 Kim's remarks in interview form accompanied the ex- 

 hibition, which closed October 19. 



July 20 



■ Beginning of Classes The seven students in the Class 

 of 2.000 of the Conservation Analytical Laboratory's Fur- 

 niture Conservation Training Program (FCTP) starred 

 their training with the first of twelve two-week cour- 

 ses — this one on wood technology and identification. 

 These students will receive their professional training at 

 CAL, attending four such courses per year for three 

 years, followed by a one-year internship. 



July 22-26 



■ Workshop The African American storytelling tradi- 

 tion was examined in a week-long workshop for 

 teachers at the Anacostia Museum. The program ex- 

 amined oral and written language, visual arts, music, 

 dance as the storytelling medium. 



July 26 



■ Workshop "From the Ground Up: Basic Steps for 

 Family Research" was an African American genealogy 

 workshop held at the Anacostia Museum. Historian 

 Maria Goodwin discussed key points for beginning 

 family research including home-based research, long- 

 distance research, and living sources. 



July 26-December 1 



■ Exhibition "Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy" 

 was on view at the National Portrait Gallery. Video and 

 radio clips of Armstrong in performance, along with 

 paintings, drawings, photographs, and related 



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