June 26 



Seminars: The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education began its 1989 series 

 of summer seminars for teachers. This year the program included eight seminars 

 for local teachers from the Washington, D.C., area and one graduate course for 

 teachers around the United States. 



June 29-July 13 



Institute: The Office of Folklife Programs' Folklore Summer Institute for 

 Community Scholars hosted thirteen individuals, who have been involved in 

 collecting, preserving, and presenting folklore in their home communities, for 

 training and information exchange. The participants represented a variety of 

 cultural and geographic regions of the United States. 



July 



Award: Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, curator in the Division of Community Life at 

 the National Museum of American History, received a $275,000 fellowship to pursue 

 work of her choice from the John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation. 



July 



Expansion: Smithsonian Institution Press expanded its international distribution 

 capabilities significantly by joining a marketing consortium with university 

 presses from Harvard, Yale, MIT, the Brookings Institution, and the University of 

 Chicago. 



July 



New Directions: The release of the book titled Just Before Jazz: Black Musical 

 Theater in New York, 1890-1915 signals the expansion of the Smithsonian 

 Institution Press' list-building efforts in books about music and American 

 cultural history. 



July 



Program: The National Museum of Natural History's Office of Education began a 

 program that brings storytellers, musicians, dancers, and artisans to the museum 

 setting from tribes throughout the United States and Canada to demonstrate the 

 cultural heritage of Native Americans that is still thriving in many different 

 forms throughout North America. Among the participants was Vanessa Morgan, an 

 Oklahoma Kiowa, whose skill at bead working made her a 1989 recipient of a 

 National Heritage Award from the Folk Art Program of the National Endowment for 

 the Arts. 



July 



Workshop: The first joint Mexican and American workshop on the taxonomy and 

 natural history of the bees of Mexico was held in Mexico. Organized by Mexican 

 and United States scientists with funding provided by the Smithsonian's Office of 

 International Relations through its International Exchanges Program, the workshop 

 was the outgrowth of a cooperative program on the bees of Mexico. 



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