April 



Exhibition: Universal Press Syndicate sponsored the opening reception of "Oliphant's 

 Presidents: Twenty-five Years of Caricature" at the National Portrait Gallery, attended 

 by Pat Oliphant and his wife. 



April 



Appointment: Christraud M. Geary, a former Rockefeller Fellow in the Humanities at 

 the National Museum of African Art, was named curator of that museum's Archives. 



April 



Publication: To Govern a Changing Society: Constitutionalism and the Challenge of 

 New Technology, edited by Robert Peck and based on a symposium sponsored by the 

 Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, was published by Smithsonian Institution Press. 



April 2 



Office Established: The Office of Environmental Awareness was established to increase 

 public knowledge and awareness of environmental issues. 



April 3 



Exhibition: "Color, Light, Surface: Contemporary Fabrics" at the Cooper-Hewitt 

 National Museum of Design featured fabrics manufactured in the United States, Europe, 

 and Asia. 



April 3 



Grant: Mobil Oil Corporation made a $50,000 grant to the National Portrait Gallery in 

 support of the forthcoming exhibition "Camera Portraits," masterpieces from the 

 photographic collections of the National Portrait Gallery in London. 



April 6 



Exhibition: "Albert Pinkham Ryder," the largest and most complete exhibition of the 

 work of the nineteenth-century painter ever organized, opened at the National Museum 

 of American Art. 



April 11-14 



Cultural Diversity: The Office of Public Affairs, the Office of Elementary and 

 Secondary Education, and the Office of Quincentenary Programs cosponsored a booth 

 and a full-page advertisement in the conference program booklet at the National Hispanic 

 Journalists meeting in San Francisco. More than 800 news professionals from English 



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