November 21 



December 



■ Species Survival The National Zoo received a Kiwi 

 bird from New Zealand to continue the breeding at the 

 Zoo of this disappearing species. 



■ Appointment L. Carole Wharton, former chief plan- 

 ning officer ar Drexel University, become director of the 

 Office of Planning and Budget. 



November 22 



■ Symposium A symposium, "Chang Dai-chien and His 

 Art," made possible through the generosity of Mrs. Ar- 

 thur M. Sackler, was held at the Saclder Gallery in con- 

 nection with the opening of the first major rerrospective 

 in the United States of work by China's foremost 

 modern painter. 



November 2} 



■ Workshop Teacher and author Eliot Wigginton, 

 founder of the Foxfire Foundation, taught the first in a 

 series of workshops for teachers participating in the 

 Demonstration Schools Project, an effort of the Office of 

 Elementary and Secondary Education. The project helps 

 teachers and museum staff work together, developing 

 ways that Smithsonian resources can be applied across 

 the curriculum to improve teaching and learning in 

 areas the schools have identified as critical. 



November 25 



■ Cultural Diversity The Office of Public Affairs held 

 the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Latino Media Advisory 

 Committee. The purpose of the nine-member external 

 advisory committee, composed of leading Latino jour- 

 nalists, publishers, and other communicators, is to help 

 OPA examine and improve its methods of communicat- 

 ing with Latino audiences through the media. 



November 24 



■ Seminar The Office of Printing and Photographic 

 Services hosted and cosponsored with the White House 

 News Photographers Association the nation's only free 

 high school seminar in still and video news photography. 



Winter 



■ Research Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 

 scientists identified the exploding star Nova Muscae as 

 a binary system in which the primary component is a 

 "black hole." 



December 



■ Publication The Whole Folkways Catalogue was pub- 

 lished by the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural 

 Studies as a guide to the Folkways collection. It was 

 distributed to 5,000 scholars, educators, and others. 



December 



■ Closing The San Francisco office of the Archives of 

 American Art was closed and its operations consolidated 

 with those of the San Marino, California, facility. 



December 



■ Automation Smithsonian Institution Libraries' 

 automated circulation system was extended to the Na- 

 tional Museum of American Hisrory branch in Decem- 

 ber and to the Smithsonian Environmental Research 

 Center branch in April, bringing to 14 the number of 

 branches with this service. 



December 



■ Acquisition The National Museum of African Art 

 acquired an extremely rare cast copper alloy helmet 

 from northern Cote d'lvoire. 



December 



■ Premiere A film documentary examining Chiapan 

 Mayan participation in the 1991 Festival of American 

 Folklife premiered in Tuxtla Guttierez, Mexico. The 

 film was produced by the Center for Folklife Programs 

 and Cultural Studies with a team from Chiapas, Mexico. 



December 



■ Workshop The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Ex- 

 hibition Service, the American Library Association, and 

 corporate sponsor Beneficial Management Corporation 

 hosted a workshop in Washington, D.C., for library ex- 

 hibitors of the panel adaptation of the National 

 Museum of Natural History's major Columbus Quincen- 

 renary exhibition, "Seeds of Change." 



