March 



March $ 



■ Collection Documentation The National Museum of 

 Natural History presented a complete set of 

 photographs documenting the Mohave tribal collections 

 housed in the museum to Mohave representatives for 

 use in their cultural and educational programs. 



March 



■ New Equipment The Smithsonian Tropical Research 

 Institute installed a new Potain crane at the 

 Metropolitan Nature Park to continue studies of the 

 forest canopy. The leased crane, supported by a grant 

 from the German and Finnish governments, gives re- 

 searchers access to a considerably more extensive 

 canopy area than the crane previously used as a 

 prototype. 



March— June 



■ Performance The Smithsonian Resident Associate 

 Program presented Rosemary Clooney in her Smith- 

 sonian debut at a sold-out gala evening, highlighted by 

 Clooney 's presentation of her first gold record for 

 "C'mon-a My House" to the National Museum of 

 American History. RAP Director Janet Solinger 

 presented the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal to 

 Clooney and announced a contribution to the Betty 

 Clooney Foundation for Persons with Brain Injury. 



March 5-8 



■ Program Office of Exhibits Central Designer Ken- 

 neth Young and Editor Diana Cohen conducted an ex- 

 hibition workshop in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, as part of 

 an Organization of American States' program, "The 

 Museum as Collector and Interpreter of National 

 Heritage." 



■ Research The first ground-based detection of ultra- 

 high-energy gamma rays from a source outside our galaxy 

 was made by an international group at the Smithsonian 

 Astrophysical Observatory's Whipple Observatory. 



March I 



U Exhibition The highly successful exhibition 

 "Homecoming: William H. Johnson and Afro- 

 America, 1938-1946" closed at the National Museum 

 of American Art to begin its national tour of four 

 venues at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 

 New York City. 



March 2 



■ Lecture For Women's History Month, Delegate 

 Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C) addressed contemporary 

 issues facing working women. The event was coordinated 

 by the Wider Audience Development Program. 



March 6 



■ Public Programs As part of its efforts to expand 

 public awareness and understanding of Asian culture, 

 the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery presented the first of 

 eight free public performances of Pacific Bridge 

 Theatre's interpretation of three Japanese No plays in a 

 program titled "Long After Love." The Pacific Bridge 

 Theatre experiments in bridging theatrical experiences 

 of different cultures. 



March 6 



■ Exhibition The exhibition "Between Home and 

 Heaven: Contemporary Landscape Photography," drawn 

 from the National Museum of American Art's newly 

 formed collection of 300 images, opened at the museum 

 and later will begin a national tour of seven museums. 



March 7-1} 



March } 



■ Lecture Archives of American Art members par- 

 ticipated in a lecture and guided tour of the exhibition 

 "American Masters: Six Artists from the Permanent 

 Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art." 

 New York Regional Director Stephen Polcari was lec- 

 turer and exhibit guide. 



■ Conference The National Science Resources Center 

 convened its first Working Conference on Precollege 

 Science Education for Scientists and Engineers. The con- 

 ference is the first of four annual meetings designed to 

 help scientists and engineers become more effectively in- 

 volved in elementary science education reform. Twenty- 

 eight participants from academia, federal research 

 facilities, and private industry attended. 



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