Volume 12, Number 1
Jan 1988

People

• Susan Barger and Kathy Orlenko have started work on an NEH grant project to test on old book papers the resizing agents currently in use in conservation.
• Garrison/Lull (Ann Garrison and Bill Lull) have a new telephone number: 609/259-8050. Their address remains the same: P0 Box 337, Princeton Junction, NJ 08550.
• Dennis Moser, Assistant Book Conservator at the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, has accepted the position of Conservation Technician at the University Club in New York City.
• HICOREB the three-year book conservation school in Belgium, graduated five students in June 1987: Arnie De Roover, Lieve Watteeuw, Guy De Witte, Ann Peckstadt and Geneviève Callewaert.
• Jennifer Banks is now Head of Preservation and Collections at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries.
• Nancy Bell left the Bodleian Library to join Christopher Clarkson as an instructor at West Dean College in Chichester, England.
• Ted Kuzen was named Preservation Officer at the University of Virginia Library.
• Robert J. Strauss, who is now Executive Director of CCAHA in Philadelphia, is the same Robert J. Strauss who headed the Archival Products Division of the Library Binding Service in Des Moines. This was not made clear in the last issue.
• James Stroud is Acting Chief Conservation Officer at the University of Texas's Humanities Research Center.
• Decherd Turner will retire from his position as Director of the University of Texas' s Humanities Research Center at the end of the academic year.
• Sally Buchanan joined the University of Pittsburgh January 1 as Assistant Director for Preservation Services and Cooperative Planning, in which capacity she will develop preservation programs for the University, region and state.
• Ingrid Rose, who has been in Roumania for the last three years, will be returning to the United States this summer or fall. She gave a paper at the ICOM meeting in Sydney on the effects of various cleaning methods.
• Dorothy Teringo was appointed conservator (rare bookbinder) at the Library of Congress.
• William Matheson, chief of the Rare Books and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress for 19 years, retired on August 28.
• David Dudley, Director of the Upper Midwest Conservation Association in Minneapolis since 1978, has joined the Southwest Conservation Center in Scottsdale, Arizona.
• Norman G. Beaudoin began work in November as a conservation technician at the University of California in Berkeley.
• Martha Morales is now doing consulting in association management and conference planning. Her address is 10300 Chapel Road, Potomac, MD 20854 (301/299-9598).
• Tim Padfield, formerly of the Smithsonian Institution, has gone to work in Denmark.
• Eleanore (Sandy) Stewart has accepted a new appointment as Head of Conservation Treatment at the Stanford University Libraries as of March 1.
• Anna Stenstrom has accepted the position of Book Conservator at the New York Public Library, starting in February.