September 13 



September 20 



■ Lecture The first in a series of informal gallery talks 

 known as "Curator's Choice" was inaugurated at the Ar- 

 thur M. Sackler Gallery, with director Milo Beach dis- 

 cussing "A Mughal Hunt," an exhibition of paintings 

 that he organized. 



September jj 



■ Exhibition The National Postal Museum opened the 

 exhibition, "Unwelcomed: Mortiz Schoenberger and the 

 S.S. St. Louis." A public program on September 25 in- 

 volved four refugees who sailed aboard the S.S. St. Louis 

 as children. Participants discussed memories of the ill- 

 fated voyage, in which Jewish refugees trying to emi- 

 grate to the United States were refused admission. 



September 16 



■ New Facility The National Museum of Natural 

 History's Department of Botany opened a $1 million re- 

 search greenhouse at the museum's Suitland, Maryland, 

 site. Botanists who traditionally depended on the dry col- 

 lections for their research can now include observations on 

 live specimens and also extend the scope of their studies to 

 pollination, plant physiology, and plant evolution. 



September ij 



■ Special Event The Young Benefactors, a membership 

 group of The Smithsonian Associates, held its fifth annual 

 Blast-Off Black Tie Gala with a record attendance of 1,850 

 and presented the Institution with a check for $80,000. 



September 18 



■ Special Event The Board of Regents honored Secretary 

 Robert McC. Adams and Mrs. Adams at a dinner at the 

 National Air and Space Museum. Among the 300 guests 

 were Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas 

 Foley and Mrs. Foley, the director of the Central Intelli- 

 gence Agency, and several foreign ambassadors. 



September ip 



■ Special Event I. Michael Heyman, a law professor and 

 former chancellor of the University of California at 

 Berkeley, was sworn in as the 10th secretary of the 

 Smithsonian in a ceremony in front of the Castle. Secre- 

 tary Robert McC. Adams became secretary emeritus. 



■ Tour The Archives of American Art began its an- 

 nual fall expedition, which lasted more than two weeks, 

 with an itinerary that included the Riviera, a riverboat 

 cruise on the Rhone, and Paris. The tour covered a kalei- 

 doscope of Greek and Roman ruins, Medieval, Roman- 

 esque and Gothic architecture, classical and modern art 

 and sculpture. 



September 20 



■ Video Screening "Workers at the White House" was 

 shown to an enthusiastic audience that included many 

 of the White House workers who participated in the 

 project. The video was produced by the Center for 

 Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies in cooperation 

 with the White House Historical Association and the 

 National Archives in celebration of the 200th Anniver- 

 sary of the White House. It was based on a program at 

 the 1992 Festival of American Folklife. 



September 20 



■ Exhibition Object installation began for the exhibi- 

 tions "Creation's Journey: Masterworks of Native Ameri- 

 can Culture and Belief and "This Path We Travel: 

 Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Art" at 

 the George Gustave Heye Center of the National Mu- 

 seum of the American Indian in New York City. 



September 22 



■ Film Series A showing of Bad Boy Bubby, a dark com- 

 ing-of-age tale that won the Venice Film Festival's top 

 prize in 1994, inaugurated the Hirshhorn Museum and 

 Sculpture Garden's 1994—95 film series. 



September 29 



■ Conference At a conference sponsored by the National 

 Science Resources Center, more than 60 representatives 

 from companies and other organizations discussed cor- 

 porate America's impact on science education. 



September 29 



■ Film Premiere The National Council of Negro 

 Women, the Joel Brokaw Company, and the 

 Smithsonian's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Edu- 

 cation and Public Service cosponsored the premiere of 



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