the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. The event raised 

 $256,000 from ticket sales and fund-raising activities. 



April 15 



■ Fellowship Awards The Office of Fellowships and 

 Grants offered 77 awards under the Smithsonian Fellow- 

 ship Program. Nineteen percent of the awards went to 

 people from underrepresented groups. 



April 18-22 



■ Workshop The American Indian Museum Studies 

 program of the Office of Museum Programs sponsored 

 "Curatorial Methods: Documenting and Caring for Cul- 

 tural Materials in American Indian Communities," a 

 workshop hosred in Neah Bay, Washington, by the 

 Makah Cultural and Research Center. 



April ip 



m Lecture Series Cornel West of Princeton University 

 keynoted a four-part lecture series, "Race: The Continu- 

 ing American Dilemma," organized by the African 

 American Studies Center of The Smithsonian Associates 

 and featuring Studs Terkel, among other speakers. 



April 20 



■ Volunteers The Visitor Information and Associates' 

 Reception Center held the annual appreciation event for 

 behind-the-scenes volunteers in the Great Hall of the 

 Smithsonian Institution Building. 



April 20 



can people. Among those represented were Edward 

 R. Murrow, John Hersey, Bill Mauldin, and Margaret 

 Bourke- White. The gallery published a catalogue to 

 accompany the exhibition, and the Office of Telecom- 

 munications produced several video portraits for the 

 installation. 



April 22 



■ Symposium The National Zoo's Office of Public Af- 

 fairs organized "Is Conservation Going Extinct?" as part 

 of Earth Day activities. The program explored issues 

 central to conservation today. 



April 22 



■ Exhibition "The Tongass: Alaska's Magnificent Rain 

 Forest," an exhibition of photographs by Robert Glenn 

 Ketchum, Art Wolfe, Chris Burkett, and others, opened 

 on Earth Day at the National Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. This exhibition, circulated by the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution Traveling Exhibition Service, celebrates the 

 beauty and diversity of the United States' largest na- 

 tional forest and part of the largest nonequatorial 

 rainforest in the world. 



April 23-24 



■ Public Program The National Air and Space Museum 

 hosted a Wings and Things Open House weekend at 

 the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Stor- 

 age Facility in Suitland, Maryland. Thousands of visi- 

 tors enjoyed a behind-the-scenes look at the facility. 

 Activities included musical performances, educational 

 demonstrations, and restoration discussions. 



■ Exhibition The National Museum of African Art 

 opened a major exhibition, "Face of the Spirits: Masks 

 from the Zaire Basin." In conjunction with the exhibi- 

 tion, the museum sponsored an extensive series of pro- 

 grams for the public and for teachers. The exhibition 

 featured more than 100 masks from 40 ethnic groups in 

 the Zaire River Basin. 



April 22-September 5 



April 27 



■ Exhibition A new permanent exhibition, "Science in 

 American Life," opened at the National Museum of 

 American History. The four-year effort was under- 

 written by a $5.3 million gift from the American Chemi 

 cal Society. The exhibition explores the interactions 

 between science and society from the late 19th century 

 to the present. 



■ Exhibition "Reporting the War: The Journalistic 

 Coverage of World War II" was on view at the National 

 Portrait Gallery. The exhibition examined the experi- 

 ences and perspectives of 35 men and women who 

 brought the story of World War II home to the Ameri- 



April 28 



■ Award Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum 

 received a Presidential Design Award for the 1987 publi- 

 cation Keys and Locks in the Collection of Cooper-Hewitt. 



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