Volume 15, Number 8
Dec 1991

People

• Henry Wilhelm and Carol Brower were married December 1, 1991 in Grinnell, Iowa. Henry's forthcoming book, "The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Prints, Negatives, Slides and Motion Pictures," is expected this spring. Carol is contributing author.
• Janet Ruggles, who has been serving as director of the Balboa Art Conservation Center in San Diego, has resumed full-time her responsibilities as the center's chief paper conservator.
• Paul Messier has begun work as paper and photographic materials conservator at the Rocky Mountain Conservation Center, which recently dropped the word "Regional" from its name because it is now serving such a large area.
• Sue Murphy left her position as Senior Conservator at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRHRC) at the University of Texas to become the Curator for the Center's art collections. She spent the month of October working in France and London on a professional fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. This involved giving a paper at the ARSAG conference and visiting paper mills, museums and galleries.
• Karen Pavelka has been appointed the Head of the Paper Lab in the Conservation Department at the HRHRC .
• James Stroud was in the State of Bahrain (southeast of Kuwait on the Persian Gulf) recently, consulting at the National Museum.
• Karen Garlick is the chair of the Preservation Section in the Society of American Archivists, and the SAA liaison to the AIC.
• Evelyn Frangakis has been named Preservation Director of the Society of American Archivists, effective January 1. This means she will be in charge of the big preservation training project described on p. 90 of the October issue of this newsletter.
• George Cunha went to Moscow and St. Petersburg about December 1 to consult with the libraries there.
• Janet English has joined the Intermuseum Laboratory in Oberlin, Ohio, as Assistant Conservator of Paper.
• Roxanna D. Herrick joined the Washington University Libraries (St. Louis, MO) in the fall as Preservation Administrator, a newly created position.
• Cheryl A Shackelton, formerly Mellon Intern at the New York Public Library, is now working as a consultant to the Preservation of the Black Religious Heritage Project sponsored by the NYPL's Schomburg Center and co-authoring a book with Robert DeCandido on conservation treatment services. She can be reached at 212/584-5659.
• Dr. Mirjam Foot began work as Director of Collections and Preservation at the British Library in November 1990. Mirjam is responsible for the largest directorate in the British Library: its work includes the storage, retrieval and supply of books to humanities reading rooms as well as the preservation of material.
• Miguel Angel Corzo was named the new Director of the Getty Conservation Institute in November.
• David Tilbrooke, conservation scientist from South Australia, recently returned from a fact-finding mission to the USA. Among his stops were the Smithsonian's Conservation Analytical Lab and the Getty Conservation Institute.
• Robert Butler, preservation officer of the National Agricultural Library, retired September 30.
• Robert Milevski started work August 19 at his new job as Preservation Librarian at Princeton University Libraries. His telephone number is 609/258-5591, and his fax number is 258-4105.