March 24 



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

 Contributing Membership were given a special tour of "Modern American Realism: The 

 Sara Roby Foundation," an exhibition at the National Museum of American Art. 



March 25 



Award: On behalf of the American Heart Association, Congressman Frank R. Wolf of 

 Virginia presented awards to Office of Protection Services security officers Ida 

 Chase, Willie Jones, and Kenneth Doll for administering cardio-pulmonary resuscitation 

 under life-threatening circumstances. 



March 27 



Special Event: A special screening of "Voices of Latin America," a "Smithsonian 

 World" cultural documentary, was held at Carmichael Auditorium for members of 

 Washington's Hispanic community. The program was aired nationally over the Public 

 Broadcasting Service on April 8. 



March 30 



Outreach: As part of a major effort to reach the Hispanic community, the Office of 

 Public Affairs hired a full-time public affairs specialist, fluent in Spanish and 

 English, to develop and carry out an appropriate media program. 



April 



Acquisition: The Smithsonian acquired Folkways Records, the best known publisher of 

 commercial recordings of folk and tribal music and publisher of a historically 

 significant collection of spoken-word recordings. The Folkways Records catalogue 

 contains more than twenty-two hundred albums. Folkways Records was acquired from the 

 estate of founder Moses Asch. 



April 



Discovery: A Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist and colleagues, 

 working with images of Jupiter's moons returned by the Voyager spacecraft, found 

 evidence that material from the interior of Europa may be venting through its ice- 

 covered surface. 



April 



Reorganization: Responsibility for Smithsonian communications was transferred from 

 the Office of Plant Services to the Office of Information Resource Management. 

 Consolidation of all communications-management activities into one organization marked 

 an important step toward full integration of the Institution's voice-, data-, and 

 image-communications technologies. 



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