Noted Visitor 

 Is Honored 



Dr. Guillermo Hernandez de 

 Alba and Senora de Alba were 

 honor guests at a luncheon yester- 

 day at the Washington Hotel at 

 which Richard Pattee, Assistant 

 Chief of the Division of Cultural 

 Relations of the Department of 

 State, was host. 



In this country at the invitation 

 of the State Department, Dr. de 

 Alba is a well-known Colombian 

 historian and has published au- 

 thoritative works on the cultural 

 and artistic history of his native 

 country. He has also devoted 

 much time to tracing historic cul- 

 tural interchanges between North 

 and South America, while in this 

 country he will visit in Virginia 

 and Massachusetts where he will 

 examine records dealing with the 

 colonial origins of our economic 

 system of government. He is es- 

 pecially interested in examining 

 all collections in this country con- 

 taining documents related to the 

 history of Colombia, particularly 

 during the colonial period. 



Guests at yesterday's luncheon 

 were Dr. Leo S. Rowe, Director 

 General of the Pan American 

 Union; Mrs. Concha Romero 

 James and. Miss Elsie Brown; Her- 

 bert E. Kahler and Rene d'Har- 

 noncourt of the Interior Depart- 

 ment; Walter Prendergast of the 

 Office of the Coordinator of Inter- 

 American Affairs; Dr. E. A. Cha- 

 pin of the Smithsonian Institution 

 and Mrs. Chapin; Senor Cama- 

 cho-Lorenzana of the Colombian 

 Embassy and Senora de Camacho 

 and from the Department of State 

 Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Powell, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Pierson. 

 Miss Irene Wright, Dr. Roscoe 

 Hill and Arturo Morales. 



