John McKiernan Gonzalez, University of Michigan, 

 Department of History, used archival collections to compare 

 the conflicts over public health, medical care and modern- 

 ization in El Paso and Puerto Rico between 1880 and 1940. 

 Dr. Ramunas Kondratas, curator, Division of Science, 

 Medicine and Society at the National Museum of American 

 History served as Mr. McKiernan Gonzalez's sponsor. 



Aurora Santillan, University of California, Santa Barbara, 

 Department of History, chronicled the history of Mexicana 

 and Chicana workers in Los Angeles during the period be- 

 tween 1900 and WWII. Dr. Spencer Crew, director of the Na- 

 tional Museum of American History, served as Ms. Santillan 's 

 sponsor. 



Jonathan Yorba, University of California at Berkeley, 

 Department of Ethnic Studies, researched American paintings 

 depicting mestizo/a imagery from 1848 to 1967. Andrew Con- 

 nors, Associate Curator at the National Museum of American 

 Art, served as Mr. Yorba s sponsor. 



2. Bob Kidd, Program Coordinator at the center, developed 

 the annual Awards for Museum Leaderships seminar, held this 

 year July 15— 19. The 1996 curriculum once again emphasized 

 problem-solving strategies, communication skills and team 

 building techniques. Faculty for the program included Dr. 

 Lawrence J. Pijeaux, Executive Director, Birmingham Civil 

 Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL; Jane Delgado, Executive 

 Director, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; and Dr. 

 Lonnie G. Bunch, Associate Director for Historical Resources, 

 National Museum of American History, Washington, DC. 



3. The American Indian Museum Studies (AIMS) Program 

 at the center, managed by Karen Cooper, offered three 

 programs during the year: "Planning and Managing Museums 

 for Public Audiences," April 22-25, hosted by the Mash- 

 natucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashnatuck- 

 et, CT; "Introduction to Archival Research," June 3-8, 

 co-sponsored with the National Museum of the American In- 

 dian and held in Washington, DC; and "Creating a 

 Repository: Making Decisions about Collections," September 

 10—13, hosted by the Menominee Historic Preservation Office, 

 Keshena, WI. The program produced the third issue of 

 "Perspectives," a resource for tribal museums, featuring an ar- 

 ticle on the value of museum service organizations to tribal 

 museums and cultural centers. AIMS also sponsored an intern- 

 ship position ar the Smithsonian Anthropology Library. La- 

 Homa Lee, a Navajo student at Stanford University, spent 8 

 weeks during the summer learning library techniques and 

 preservation methods, with a focus on making Native 

 American materials more accessible to library patrons. 



4- The center's annual series of workshops in basic museum 

 operations, coordinated by Nancy Fuller, offered three 

 programs in 1996: "Introduction to Museum Management," 

 January 22-26; "Introduction to Creating Museum Exhibi- 

 tions," April 15—19; and "Introduction to Caring for Museum 

 Collections," September 16—20. 



5. Nancy Fuller also continued her direction of the Fellow- 

 ships in Museum Practice which enables museum profes- 



sionals to undertake original research in museum theory and 

 operations, using resources and facilities at the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 1996 Appointments to the program were: Jennifer 

 Anderson-Lawrence, Site Director Philipsburg Manor, 

 Westchester, New York; Project Title: "The Nursery of Living 

 Thought: The Role of Education at the National Museum of 

 American Hisrory." Pamela Henson, Smithsonian Institution 

 Archives, served as project sponsor. 



Maria Christina Barbosa de Almeida, Coordinator, 

 Database on Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Universidad 

 de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Project title: "Possibilities 

 and strategies for implementing the museum library into the 

 activities of other museum departments." Cecilia Chin, 

 Librarian, National Museum of American Art/National 

 Portrait Gallery, served as project sponsor. 



Ann E. Denkler, Curator, Greenbelt Museum, Greenbelt, 

 Maryland. Project title: "Interpreting Utopia Through Inter- 

 active Community Experiences in Greenbelt, Maryland." 

 Zahava Doenng, Director, Institutional Studies Office, served 

 as project sponsor. 



David Keller, Exhibit Designer/Board Member, Back To 

 Nature Wildlife Refuge, Orlando, Florida. Project title: 

 "Design and consttucnon of low-cost exhibits/habitats for 

 wildlife rehabilitation and small zoo facilities." John 

 Seidensticker and Benjamin Beck, National Zoological Park, 

 served as project sponsors. 



6. Under the coordination of CMS staff member Elena 

 Mayberry, and assisted by Allison Wickens, the center's Intern 

 Services for the Institution expanded programming and coun- 

 seling services for both Smithsonian interns and prospective 

 applicants. In FY 96, Intern Services provided orientation and 

 registration programs for 663 interns at the Institution; or- 

 ganized a series of brown bag lunches, including a special 

 150th anniversary series for interns during the summer 

 months', offered a series of behind-the-scenes tours of 

 museums and organizations around the Washington, DC area; 

 and produced the annual Museum Careers Seminar series, July 

 19—30. The center began a new initiative this year with the Of- 

 fice of Governmental Relations (OGR). Following an orienta- 

 tion session led by John Berry, director of OGR, interns are 

 encouraged to visit Capitol Hill and meet with their congres- 

 sional representatives. To kick off the program, a special recep- 

 tion was held July 17 at the Russell Office Building featuring 

 remarks from Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ). 



7. The Museum Intern Partnership Program, coordinated 

 by Bruce Craig and Elena Mayberry, hosted two interns in 

 1996. Catrina Hill, a student at Wayne State University, 

 worked in a partnership project between the National Air and 

 Space Museum and the National Museum of the Tuskegee Air- 

 men in Detroit. Ms. Hill was the 1996 recipient of the Vin- 

 cent Wilkinson Internship, established in 1995 to provide 

 funding for African American students in the program. Rosa 

 Fernandez, a graduate of New York University, worked in a 

 partnership project between the Archives of American Art 

 and the OAS Art Museum of the Americas in Washington. 



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