March 



Glasnost: The Smithsonian Resident Associate Program opened the Glasnost Film 

 Festival series, which featured the American premiere of new Soviet 

 documentaries. The series was introduced by Leonid Gurevich, chairman, 

 Documentary Film Section, USSR Union of Cinematographers. Gurevich led a 

 delegation of Soviet filmmakers and directors to the premiere evening. 



March 



Publication: Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 

 marine scientist, and F. K. McKinney published the book Bryozoan Evolution, 

 which presents complete descriptions of major patterns of evolution of bryozoan 

 colony forms. The book contains much new data on the implications of the 

 evolutionary changes adopted by bryozoans and will serve as an important 

 reference source for specialists in the fields of paleontology, marine ecology, 

 and invertebrate zoology. 



March 



Season Premiere: "Here at the Smithsonian," the Institution's series of short 

 television features, began its seventh season. Nationwide, 175 television 

 stations subscribe. 



March 2 



Special Celebration: The National Zoo celebrated its one-hundredth birthday with 

 a parade through the Zoo grounds, birthday greetings from civic leaders, and the 

 cutting of a centennial cake by First Lady Barbara Bush. 



March 7 



Anniversary Celebrations: President George Bush addressed participants at the 

 twentieth anniversary celebration of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for 

 Scholars. Other speakers included Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was 

 involved in the original planning of the Center and served as vice chairman of 

 its Board of Trustees from 1971 to 1976; Secretary of State James Baker, 

 currently a member of the Board of Trustees; William J. Baroody, Jr., chairman of 

 the Board of Trustees; and Charles Blitzer, director of the Center. 



March 12 



Seminar: The Office of Interdisciplinary Studies organized a seminar at the 

 Library of Congress titled "Patterns in History and the Rise and Fall of 

 Nations." 



March 15 



Acquisitions: The opening of the exhibition "Recent Acquisitions: 1986-198S" at 

 the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden showed for the first time newly 

 acquired works by Daniel Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Ernst Barlach, Sandro Chia, 

 Lucian Freud, Nancy Graves, Oto Gutfreund, Jasper Johns, Martin Puryear, Yves 

 Tinguely, and others. Not included in the exhibition, but also acquired during 

 fiscal year 1989, were important works by Sigmar Polke and Anish Kapoor. 



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