May 25 



Summer Hours: Hours at the Air and Space Museum were extended to 7:30 p.m. seven 

 days a week between May 25 and Labor Day. 



May 28-31 



Training: An advanced training course on wood identification was taught by Dr. 

 Richard Dodd at the Conservation Analytical Laboratory. 



June 



Acquisition: Asian lions, one male and one female, were added to the collections 

 of the National Zoo as part of a breeding program between cooperating zoos. 



June 



Awards: Two Smithsonian News Service stories, published by the Office of Public 

 Affairs, received first and third place awards in the National Association of 

 Government Comunicators Blue Pencil competition. The television public service 

 announcement "Kids at the Smithsonian," with actress Sandy Duncan, was awarded an 

 NAGC Gold Screen award. "Radio Smithsonian," an Office of Telecommunications 

 production, won two NAGC awards: "Cowboys," a program in the American Stories 

 mini -series, won Best of Competition, and the series as a whole won the 

 Outstanding Audiovisual Production honors. 



June 



Grant: The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation awarded $49,000 to the Smithsonian 

 Tropical Research Institute for fellowships to Latin American students to 

 conduct predoctoral research at STRI . 



June 



Grants: The Smithsonian Institution Libraries was awarded three grants from the 

 Atherton Seidell Endowment Fund, one to publish scientific records in non-Roman 

 alphabets, a second to purchase back issues of journals for the STRI Branch 

 Library, and the third to acquire an image digitizer that permits rapid 

 teletransmission of documents. 



June 



National Event: The Festival of India 1985-1986 opened in Washington, D.C., with 

 Smithsonian-wide participation planned for the next 18 months, including 

 exhibitions, seminars, classes, a major portion of the Festival of American 

 Folklife , radio programs and publications. 



June 



Publication: A Summary Profile of Smithsonian International Activities , the 

 first comprehensive survey of Smithsonian activities around the world, was 

 published by the Office of Service and Protocol. 



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