and Associates' Reception Center. A three-minute 

 recording features highlights of Smithsonian exhibi- 

 tions and activities of special interest to Latinos. One- 

 page Spanish-language flyers were also prepared for 

 distribution at museum information desks. 



April 25-26 



■ Special Events The National Zoo celebrated Earth 

 Day with special animal training demonstrations, an ex- 

 tinct animals memorial, hands-on activities, and special 

 talks and tours. 



April 26 



■ Honor Richard P. Wunder, an independent scholar, 

 was awarded the fourth annual Charles C. Eldredge 

 Prize by the National Museum of American Art for his 

 1991 book, Hiram Powers, Vermont Sculptor, 1805-18/3. 



April 27-May I 



■ Conference Participation At the Materials Research 

 Society Meeting in San Francisco, cosponsored by the 

 Conservation Analytical Laboratory and the Getty Con- 

 servation Institute, CAL staff, fellows, interns, and re- 

 search collaborators presented 11 papers and 4 posters 

 and served as session chairs. 



April 28-30 



U Retreat A retreat sponsored by the Office of Environ- 

 mental Awareness, held at the Donaldson Brown Center 

 in Pore Deposit, Maryland, assembled scholars and 

 fisheries experts to plan "Ocean Planet," a traveling 

 exhibition slated to open at the National Museum of 

 Natural History in 199s. 



April 30 



■ Cultural Heritage Observation In honor of Asian 

 Pacific American Heritage Month, the Wider 

 Audience Development Program organized "Chow 

 Mein and Salsa: Asians in the Americas." Dr. Evelyn 

 Hu-DeHart, director of the Center for Studies of Eth- 

 nicity and Race in America at the University of 

 Colorado at Boulder, spoke on Asians throughout the 

 Americas. 



April 30 



U Honor W. Richard West, Jr., director of the Na- 

 tional Museum of the American Indian, was the 

 honored guest at an assembly at the Native American 

 Magnet School in Buffalo, New York. The children 

 presented West with the proceeds from a soda can 

 drive that the school conducted as a fund raiser for 

 the museum. 



May 



■ Grant The Smithsonian Institution Traveling 

 Exhibition Service, the National Museum of American 

 History, the Office of Public Affairs, and the Office of 

 Development hosted a major media event to announce a 

 $7 million grant from the Lila Wallace— Reader's Digest 

 Fund awarded to the Smithsonian for a 10-year jazz 

 initiative entitled "America's Jazz Heritage." The award 

 is the largest single grant ever given to the Smith- 

 sonian. The news conference included a performance by 

 the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. 



May 



■ Workshop "Space for Women," a one-day workshop 

 at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on 

 opportunities and options for women in astronomy, 

 astrophysics, and the earth sciences, attracted Boston- 

 area high school students. 



May 



■ International Conference The Smithsonian Environ- 

 mental Research Center helped host Water Quality 

 International, a research conference of the Internation- 

 al Water Pollution Control Federation attended by 

 5,000 scientists and engineers from more than 50 

 countries. 



May 



■ Acquisition The National Museum of African Art 

 acquired 12 etchings by Mohammad Omer Khalil, a 

 living Sudanese artist born in 1936. 



May 



■ Award "Moving America's Mail," a short video 

 produced by the Office of Telecommunications for the 

 new National Postal and Philatelic Museum, won two 



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