April 10 



April 16 



■ Marketing Karen Legett, midday radio personality 

 on Washington, D.C., station WMAL-FM, began a 

 weekly interview with Office of Public Affairs staffers 

 on events, exhibitions, and museum tips for listeners. 

 The five-minute segment will continue indefinitely 

 each Friday as part of the station's programming, at no 

 cost to the Smithsonian. 



April II 



■ Milestone At the National Zoological Park, a new- 

 born gorilla was adopted by a io-year-old female who 

 was still nursing her own n-month-old baby. The 

 natural mother apparently rejected her infant and per- 

 mitted the adoption, an extremely rare phenomenon. 



April II 



m Milestone The National Zoo celebrated the 20th 

 anniversary of the arrival of the giant pandas. 



April 16 



■ Special Event The Anacostia Museum, in conjunction 

 with the Howard University Department of History, 

 sponsored "First Freed," an observance of Emancipation 

 in the District of Columbia. 



April 20 



■ Exhibition The Smithsonian Tropical Research 

 Institute's bilingual exhibit "Parting the Green Cur- 

 tain: The Evolution of Tropical Biology in Panama" 

 opened at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica of 

 Ecuador, where it attracted more than 4,000 visitors. 



■ Acquisition John Singleton Copley's portrait of Mrs. 

 George Watson (1765), acquired by the National Museum 

 of American Art, went on public view. 



April 12 



■ Film Screening In conjunction with the National 

 Museum of American History, the Wider Audience 

 Development Program hosted Director Steven Okazaki 

 for a screening of his Academy Award— winning 

 documentary of one woman's experience in Japanese 

 American internment camps. 



April If 



■ Exhibition "Arnold Newman's Americans," an 

 exhibition celebrating the National Portrait Gallery's 

 acquisition of IOI of Newman's photographs, opened at 

 the gallery. Newman's long association with such 

 magazines as Life, Look, Fortune, and Holiday brought 

 him assignments to photograph most of the major per- 

 sonalities of post-Depression America. 



April 1$ 



■ Exhibition Opening "Recent Acquisitions/New 

 Dimensions" opened at the National Museum of 

 African Art. The exhibition featured etchings, linocuts, 

 watercolors, tapestries, and ceramics by nine modern 

 artists from Nigeria, Cote d'lvoire, South Africa, and 

 Kenya. 



April 20 



■ Acquisition By special purchase through the 

 McBurnie Fund and the Smithsonian Major Acquisi- 

 tions Fund, the National Museum of American 

 History's Division of Graphic Arts acquired a working 

 model of a Genard printing press, dating from about 

 1787, that the inventor had presented to members of the 

 French Academy. 



April 22 



■ Reception A reception was held to commemorate the 

 National Museum of the American Indian National 

 Campaign's first year of operation. 



April 2} 



■ Conference The Rockefeller Foundation Division of 

 Arts and Humanities cosponsored with the Office of 

 Environmental Awareness a meeting with artists and 

 writers to discuss ways to incorporate arts and 

 humanities in environmental exhibitions. 



April 2} 



■ Cultural Diversity As a result of the first meeting of 

 the Office of Public Affairs' Ad Hoc Latino Media Ad- 

 visory Committee, held in late November, OPA opened 

 a Spanish-language, 24-hour, general-information 

 phone line in cooperation with the Visitor Information 



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