coordinators, master teachers, scientists, and business 

 and industry representatives to study the use of hands- 

 on curriculum units to improve elementary science 

 programs. Sponsors included Dow Chemical Company 

 Foundation and the Hewlett-Packard Company. For the 

 first time, two foreign teams — from Mexico and On- 

 tario, Canada — attended the institute. 



school juniors from the Duke Ellington School of the 

 Arts inaugurated the museum's pilot Young Inter- 

 preters Program, performing vignettes in the "Field to 

 Factory" exhibition, giving demonstrations throughout 

 the museum, and learning how to research and create 

 historically based characters for presentation in exhibi- 

 tion spaces. 



June 22 



June jo 



■ Summer Seminars The Office of Elementary and 

 Secondary Education offered 12 summer seminars for 

 teachers, the product of collaborations with five 

 museums, the Smithsonian Environmental Research 

 Center, and the Experimental Gallery. More than 250 

 teachers studied such topics as the arts of China, teach- 

 ing ecology, cross-cultural communications, and the 

 history of U.S. political protest. 



June 23 



■ Exhibition Rare Sumatran tiger cubs, born in March, 

 went on exhibit in conjunction with the opening of the 

 National Zoo's first children's activity spot, Tiger Stop. 



■ Conference A conference on Maroon culture coor- 

 dinated by the Center for Folklife Programs and Cul- 

 tural Studies with the cooperation of the International 

 Center included leaders and scholars of Maroon com- 

 munities in Suriname, French Guiana, Jamaica, 

 Ecuador, Colombia, and Texas. 



July 



■ Tour The West Coast Support Committee of the 

 Archives of American Art sponsored a members' art 

 tour of Seattle. Private collectors, museum directors, 

 and artists were hosts to Archives members on this 

 special "insiders'" tour. 



June 24 



■ Exhibition "American Encounters," the National 

 Museum of American History's Columbus Quincenten- 

 ary exhibition, opened. The exhibition uses historic and 

 contemporary artifacts, works of art, and audio and 

 video recordings of stories, music, and dance to explore 

 the cultures and coexistence of American Indian, 

 Hispanic, and Anglo-American peoples in the Rio 

 Grande Valley of New Mexico that began in 1539 with 

 the arrival of Spanish soldiers and missionaries. 



June 25-July S 



■ Festival The 26th annual Festival of American 

 Folklife, produced by the Center for Folklife Programs 

 and Cultural Studies, featured programs on the state of 

 New Mexico, "Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Cul- 

 ture in the Americas," "The Changing Soundscape in 

 Indian Country," and "Workers at the White House." 



June 29-August 7 



■ Education Program In the continuing, innovative 

 partnership between the National Museum of American 

 History and Washington, D.C., public schools, five high 



July 



■ Acquisition The Folkways Archives and Collections, 

 Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, ac- 

 quired the Lee Hayes papers, documentation from the 

 early days of Folkways Records. Hayes was a member of 

 the Almanac Singers and a key figure in the labor and 

 folk revival movement. 



J*b 



U Publication The Smithsonian Institution Press book 

 Sharks in Question, by Victor Springer and Joy Gold, was 

 published in Japanese by Heibonsha Publications, Ltd. 



July 



■ Publication The Smithsonian Institution Press book 

 Tex Johnston: Jet- Age Test Pilot, by A. M. "Tex" Johnston 

 with Charles Barton, was published for the mass 

 market by Bantam. 



J"ly 



■ Grant The National Science Resources Center was 

 awarded a $4 million four- year grant from the National 



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