August 4-10 



Outreach: Thirty-five high school students and eight teachers participated in an 

 ecology and environmental educational seminar offered by the Smithsonian Tropical 

 Research Institute and Panama's Ministry of Education to acquaint high school 

 students with local marine and terrestrial environments. The seminar was 

 supported by Special Education Outreach funds. 



August 6 



Exhibition: The Museum of American History marked the 40th anniversary of the 

 dropping of the first atomic bomb in Building the Bomb: Forty Years after 

 Hiroshima. The display related the history of the Manhattan Project through 

 photographs, documents and artifacts from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as bomb 

 casings of the types of bombs dropped on the two cities. 



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Exhibition: History as Seen from the National Museum of American History, an 

 annual display of black-and-white photographs taken by Smithsonian photographers, 

 presented images of protests, celebrations, parades, and dedications that took 

 place near the museum since the beginning of 1984. 



August 10 



Celebration: American artist Larry Rivers and his 13th Street Band performed at 

 the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in a preview concert for the 20th 

 anniversary of the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program. 



August 19 



Groundbreaking: A ceremony was held to mark the beginning of the Zoo's Olmstead 

 Walk reconstruction, a project to rejuvenate the main pedestrian pathway in 

 preparation for the Zoo's centennial in 1989. 



September 



Acquisition: The suit and helmet worn by Sen. Jake Garn (R-Utah) , a regent of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, on his Discovery shuttle flight was accessioned by 

 the Air and Space Museum. 



September 



Presentation: Dr. John Falk and Lynn Dierking of the Smithsonian Office of 

 Educational Research presented a paper, "The Community Science Project: A New 

 Approach to Environmental Education," at the Third International Conference on 

 the Nature and Teaching of Environmental Studies and Sciences in Higher 

 Education, Sunderland, England. 



September 



Restoration: The original 1902 ceiling fresco in the South Tower room of the 

 Smithsonian Institution Building was uncovered during preliminary restoration 

 activities for the Smithsonian Information Center. 



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