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March 26-29 



■ Conference The Office of Elementary and Secondary 

 Education cosponsored with the Quality Education for 

 Minorities Network a national working conference to 

 propose guidelines for ensuring quality multicultural edu- 

 cation for children from kindergarten through grade 12. 



March 10 



■ Gift The Freer Gallery of Art received $1.5 million 

 from the B. Y Lam Foundation of Hong Kong to acquire 

 Chinese works of art. The gift was the largest the gallery 

 has received from a single donor since its opening in 1923. 



March 11 



m Conference Participation The National Science 

 Resources Center was a major participant at the annual 

 conference of the National Science Teachers Association 

 involving more than 500 teachers. 



March 29 



■ Exhibition "First Ladies: Political Role and Public 

 Image," opened to the public at the National Museum 

 of American History. It is the first major museum 

 exhibition to study first ladies from Martha Washing- 

 ton to Barbara Bush in the contexts of political history, 

 women's history, and evolving public perceptions and 

 expectations of the office. 



■ Award Established The Shimada Prize honoring 

 excellence in East Asian art history scholarship was 

 founded by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Freer 

 Gallery of Art, and the Metropolitan Center for Far East- 

 ern Art Studies in Kyoto, Japan. The $10,000 biennial 

 prize will be presented to the author of an outstanding 

 recent publication in the field. The prize is named for the 

 eminent Japanese scholar, Professor Shimada Shujiro. 



March 17-18 



■ Conference The Office of Elementary and Secondary 

 Education convened a working conference to examine 

 strategies for developing new Smithsonian programs to 

 reach teenagers, especially local at-risk teenagers. Repre- 

 sentative teenagers, youth group directors, community 

 leaders, teachers, and museum educators assessed the 

 needs of teenage audiences and determined what kinds 

 of programs would best meet these needs. 



March ip 



U Lecture A Woodrow Wilson Center meeting on 

 "Sustainable Peace and Democracy in Central America" 

 featured Nobel laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez, who exam- 

 ined the future of Latin America's new democracies. 



March 30 



■ Exhibition An exhibition of 43 baskets, "John 

 McQueen: The Language of Containment," opened at 

 the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of 

 American Art. 



April 



■ Publication Hail to the Candidate by Keith Melder, a 

 book about the American elective process featuring the 

 National Museum of American History's Becker Collec- 

 tion, was published by Smithsonian Institution Press 

 and chosen as a gift book by the Office of Development. 



April 



■ Milestone The Smithsonian National Associate 

 Program's Contributing Membership total exceeded 

 70,000 households; contributions exceeded $8 million. 



April 



■ Volunteers The Visitor Information and Associates' 

 Reception Center's annual appreciation event for 

 behind-the-scenes volunteers was held in the Castle. 



March 26 



■ Benefit and Exhibition The New England Committee 

 of the Archives of American Art sponsored a preview 

 benefit of "Kindred Spirits," an exhibition of important 

 artists' letters and manuscripts from the collection of 

 Professor Maurice Bloch. 



April 



■ Symposium An international symposium on amphipods 

 was held at the National Museum of Natural History in 

 honor of the late Dr. J. Laurence Barnard. Twenty-five 

 colleagues from 12 countries presented papers on current 

 trends and future priorities in amphipod research. 



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