for FY96 and developing a film schedule for FY97. June 5, 

 1996 through August 31, 1996. 



Rebecca Martin, Bachelors Degree, Grinnell College. Educa- 

 tion. Working with education aides to learn about and par- 

 ticipate in education department activities. Assisting 

 with research for teachers conference coinciding with the 

 exhibit "Face of a Nation." January 22, 1996 through 

 May 17, 1996. 



Kathryn M. McNeil, Bachelors Candidate, Wesleyan Univer- 

 sity. Education. Assisting Leni Buff in the coordination of 

 docent appreciation night and the 150th celebration of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. June 10, 1996 through August 25, 

 1996. 



Aaron Mendelsohn, Bachelors Degree, Middlebury College. 

 Drawings and Photographs. Assisting with research on an 

 exhibition devoted to the portraiture of Mathew Brady. Re- 

 searching and cataloguing for the Meserve Collection of 

 negatives by Mathew Brady. October 11, 1995 through 

 March 31, 1996. 



Patricia Salim, Bachelors Degree, London Guildhall Univer- 

 sity. Registrar's Office. Assisting in the National Portrait 

 Gallery Registrar's Office with a special project to create 

 new permanent registrar records for all Gallery collections. 

 July 8, 1996 through December 13, 1996. 



Kellie Anne Shevlin, Bachelors Candidate, University of 

 California at Davis. Education. Researching for program- 

 ming on the "Harmony" exhibition and tracking film licen- 

 ses for films to be shown in the National Portrait Gallery's 

 film series. September 16, 1996 through December 6, 1996. 



Heather Shuster, Bachelors Candidate, University of Georgia. 

 Catalog of American Portraits. Doing biographical research 

 on subjects and artists. Cataloging and incorporating data 

 and images into a national online database. June 24, 1996 

 through August 30, 1996. 



Maria Smith, Masters Candidate, University of Pittsburgh. 

 Publications. Merging data from previous published edi- 

 tions with new acquisitions for the new edition of the Na- 

 tional Portrait Gallery Permanent Collection Illustrated 

 Checklist. Also new accompanying illustrations will be 

 merged with the old ones. May 23, 1996 through August 

 16, 1996. 



Susan E. Smith, Bachelors Candidate, Mary Baldwin College. 

 Education. Preparing materials for teacher seminar coincid- 

 ing with "1846: Portrait of a Nation," a special exhibition 

 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Smithsonian. Serv- 

 ing as a teaching assistant during the seminar. Providing 

 support for a Living History performance presented each 

 week in the exhibition. May 20, 1996 through August I, 

 1996. 



Sarah Stauderman, Dodd Masters Candidate, Buffalo State 

 College. Conservation. Rehousing approximately 130 cased 

 photographs in protective boxes and new storage con- 

 tainers. Preforming remedial conservation treatments to 

 protect these mid 19th century artifacts. June 24, 1996 

 through August 6, 1996. 



Brett Stilwell, Bachelors Candidate, Wesleyan University. 

 Catalog of American Portraits. Developing the information 

 infrastructure on the National Portrait Gallery's World 

 Wide Web site. December 5, 1995 through May 31, 1996. 



Susan Sutherland, Bachelors Degree, University of Wisconsin. 

 Registrar. Searching, locating and researching legal 

 materials relevant to acquisitions of the portraits in the col- 

 lection. January 8, 1996 through June 28, 1996. 



Julia Way, Bachelors Candidate, Georgetown University. Pub- 

 lications. Assisting in the publication of the new edition of 

 the National Portrait Gallery's Illustrated Checklist. 

 February 6, 1996 through June 21, 1996. 



Lisa Wilson, Bachelors Candidate, Howard University. Educa- 

 tion Department. Assisting with the film series and the 

 Cultures in Motion public programs at the National 

 Portrait Gallery. March 6, 1996 through May 17, 1996. 



National Postal Museum 



Kathryn Concannon, Bachelors Candidate, Grove City Col- 

 lege. Collections. Arranging, rehousing and describing a 

 collection of 19th century Post Office Department cor- 

 respondence and records from the Hartfotd, CT Post Of- 

 fice. Finishing the inventory and physical arrangement of 

 the records. Working on a Finder's Aid. January 8, 1996 

 through January 29, 1996. 



Aimee DiScipio, Masters Degree, Washington State Univer- 

 sity. Curatorial. Researching at departments and museums 

 of the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress and the Nation- 

 al Archives, contacting nation-wide historical societies for 

 an exhibition exploring the lives of Black Americans who 

 left the south in the 1870's— 1890's. June 17, 1 996 through 

 August 2, 1996. 



Kathleen Fargey, Masters Candidate, Wright State University. 

 Researching for the Alaskan Gold Rush Exhibit. June 10, 

 1996 through August 23, 1996. 



Veronica R. Garcia-Luis, Masters Candidate, John F. Kennedy 

 University. Education. Assisting in the History Hunters 

 program, assisting in the Latino Letter Project, assisting in 

 promoting for Pen Friends project, supervising the Dis- 

 covery Center, implementing activities for the 

 Smithsonian's 150th birthday, participating in events 

 during exhibit openings, conducting audience surveys. 

 June 25, 1996 through August 23, 1996. 



Amanda Gregan, Public Affairs. Developing press releases for 

 up-coming exhibits and programs. Updating media lists 

 and activity logs. Sending mailings. Assembling press kits 

 to include clips and the summer newsletter. Creating 

 postcard mailer for VIARC. Completing a video project. 

 July 1, 1996 through September 13, 1996. 



Lila R. Heymann, Masters Candidate, The George 



Washington University. Education. Designing a daily cur- 

 riculum for a two-week history day camp for middle school 

 students. Assisting in coordinating an audience survey to 

 be implemented by docents, and to assisting in the over- 



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