Volume 21, Number 7
1997

People

• Ellen Desmarais, who worked at the National Archives of Canada for 17 years in several jobs, including book conservator and Director of the Conservation Treatment Division, has retired.
• Jan and Jarmila Sobota's new permanent address is: Radnicni 1, 357 33 Loket, Czech Republic (42 168/684 154; e-mail <sobota@mbox.vol.cz>).
• Fritz Eberhardt, a leader in American bookbinding for 50 years, died on Christmas Eve, 1997. Don Rash has an eloquent obituary of Fritz in the Spring 1998 CBBAG Newsletter on p. 21.
• Since Diana Dicus moved to Boise, Idaho two years ago, she has spent 1-1/2 years working as a contract conservator on a mold recovery site in Detroit. Her phone and fax numbers are the same: 208/331-0287.
• Jack Thompson has purchased property in Idaho and begun designing another water-powered paper mill to be built on the site. No workshop on Technology of the Medieval Book will be offered next summer because he will be busy building the new mill. WAAC NL 20/1 p7
• Florence Herrenschmidt has a new address: Centre Régional de Conservation-Restauration Basse-Normandie; 9, rue Vaubenard; 14000 Caen; France (tel. 33 2 31 93 25 79; fax 33 2 31 93 21 04). This center offers disaster assistance, photography and radiography, examination and diagnosis; and restoration of paintings. Florence is in charge of preventive conservation.
• Stella Patri, veteran of the 1966 Florence Flood rescue effort, is now 101 years old, retired and living in San Francisco. Don Glaister and Margaret Johnson have both set down their memories of how they met her (in 1972 and 1980, respectively), and of their friendships with her since then. They are published in the Winter 1997 Designer Bookbinders Newsletter under the title "Stella Patri: Two Stories."