November 3 



Obituary: Smithsonian physical anthropologist J. Lawrence Angel, 71, died in 

 Washington, D.C. During his career, Angel studied skeletal remains at key 

 archaeological sites in Cyprus, Turkey, and the United States. He also assisted 

 federal and local law enforcement agencies in identifying the skeletal remains of more 

 than five hundred people, many of them murder victims. 



November 3-5 



Workshop: The Office of Public Affairs organized and conducted a workshop for the 

 Office of Museum Programs on "Getting the Word Out: Museum Public Relations." The 

 workshop was attended by thirty public information specialists from as many museums in 

 twenty-one states, Washington, D.C, and the Virgin Islands. 



November 5 



Special Event: Sponsoring, Sustaining, Patron, and James Smithson Society Members of 

 the Contributing Membership previewed "Berlin 1900-1933: Architecture and Design," an 

 exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. 



November 5 



Obituary: Cynthia Jaffee McCabe, 43, curator for exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum 

 and Sculpture Garden suffered an apparent heart attack and died in Rio de Janeiro, 

 where she was doing research on a proposed exhibition on contemporary Latin American 

 art. 



November 6 



Special Event: Andrew, Nathaniel, Henriette, and Ann Wyeth attended the press 

 screening of "The Wyeths: A Father And His Family," the season premiere of 

 "Smithsonian World," at the New York headquarters of Metropolitan Life. The program 

 was aired over the Public Broadcasting Service on November 19. 



November 10-11 



Exhibition: "Berlin 1900-1933: Architecture and Design" opened at the Cooper-Hewitt 

 Museum. Organized by the museum, the exhibition was recreated in Berlin in Spring 

 1987 as part of the city's 750th anniversary celebration. A symposium organized by 

 the Museum and Internationales Design Zentrum in Berlin featured prominent American 

 and German experts in design. In addition, the Cooper-Hewitt's first bilingual 

 publication, an exhibition catalogue of the same title, was subsequently produced. 



November 13 



Agreement: Smithsonian Secretary Adams and Nizar Hamdoon, the Ambassador of Iraq, 

 signed a memorandum of understanding between the Institution and the Scientific 

 Research Council of Iraq. The understanding provides the mechanism necessary to carry 

 out exchanges in areas of mutual scientific interest. 



