October 25 



■ Board Appointment Jerry I. Speyer, business executive 

 and collector from New York City, was elected to the 

 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's 10-member 

 Board of Trustees, replacing philanthropist Agnes Gund. 



October 2J 



■ Research The Office of Printing and Photographic 

 Services conducted a Research Expedition Program 

 with the Smithsonian National Associate Program, 

 "Cataloging Laser Discs." 



October 31 



■ Exhibit The Office of Public Affairs completed the 

 fifth and final version of a multicultural portable traveling 

 exhibit on the theme 'The Smithsonian Is For Everyone" 

 for use by Smithsonian staffers attending conferences. The 

 exhibit features three teenagers in the National Air and 

 Space Museum. The other four versions show African 

 American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American 

 people and objects. The exhibits, funded by the Education- 

 al Outreach Program and the Special Exhibition Fund, 

 were used many times during the year. 



October 31— November 4 



■ Festival The first U.S. Virgin Islands Folklife Fes- 

 tival took place on St. Croix, U.S. V.I. , with collabora- 

 tion and support from the Center for Folklife Programs 

 and Cultural Studies. The program, originally produced 

 for the Smithsonian's 1990 Festival of American 

 Folklife, involved Senegalese folk artists and the 

 Freedom Singers. 



November 



■ Award The Smithsonian Collection of Recordings 

 received a platinum disc from Sony Records for sales of 

 500,000 albums of Classic Jazz. 



November 



■ Report The National Museum of the American 

 Indian issued "The Way of the People," a historic docu- 

 ment that blends technological design and cultural 

 sensitivity in a plan for the acquisition of programmatic 

 information. The report summarized the views ex- 



pressed by some 450 representatives of Indian tribes in 

 11 consultations. 



November 



m Workshop The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Ex- 

 hibition Service and Time Warner Inc. hosted an educa- 

 tional workshop in Washington, D.C., for national 

 museum exhibitors and sponsors associated with the 

 major photography exhibition, "Songs of My People," 

 which opened at Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art 

 in February. 



November 



■ Fellowships The Office of Fellowships and Grants 

 awarded four fellowships under the Smithsonian 

 Institution— University Programs in Structure and 

 Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems funded by the 

 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 



November— May 



■ Research Flights of a far-infrared spectrometer built 

 by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory con- 

 tributed new information on ozone depletion. 



November 1 



■ Exhibition "Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young 

 Republic" opened at the National Portrait Gallery. 

 The first exhibition devoted to the talented portrait 

 painter of the new American Republic contained 

 more than 60 paintings, including works by artists 

 whom he influenced. 



November 1 



■ Grant The Office of Printing and Photographic Ser- 

 vices was awarded an equipment grant under the Apple 

 Library of Tomorrow Program. 



November 4 



■ Cultural Heritage Observation To observe American In- 

 dian Heritage Month, the Wider Audience Develop- 

 ment Program organized "Native Pride, Power, and 

 Politics." The Honotable Elijah Harper (Ojibwa), mem- 

 ber of the Canadian Parliament and honorary chief of 

 the Red Sucker Lake Band, discussed sovereignty issues 

 facing indigenous Canadians. 



