Volume 24, Number 2
2000

People

• Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa has accepted a teaching and administrative role at the University of Texas' Preservation and Conservation Studies program, as of August 1. She is a graduate from the Columbia University program and served as the first Preservation Officer for the University of Texas Libraries, then as the Digital Programs Librarian for the General Libraries.
• John McIntyre, who retired recently from his job as head of preservation at the National Library of Scotland, was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Year's Honours list for services to Library and Archives Preservation.
• Steven Puglia has been elected to the board of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) for the next three years. His fellow board members include Pat Harris and Deanna Marcum.
• Mary Wood Lee is serving as the project manager for the FAIC NEH grant on emergency response workshops. She is now in Connecticut where her new address is: P.O. Box 125, 5 Railroad Square, West Cornwall, CT 06796. She can be reached at 860/672-0310 and at Jose Orraca's studio.
• At the June conference of the AIC, Mary Todd Glaser, NEDCC's Director of Paper Conservation, received the Rutherford John Gettens Award for her distinguished career in the conservation field. She has specialized in the treatment of art on paper for over 35 years, has taught and lectured here and abroad, and has been active in many professional projects.
• Maria Esteva has a different, temporary electronic address: simonesteva@hotmail.com.
• Robert Feller, Director Emeritus of the Research Center on the Materials of the Artist and Conservator at Carnegie Mellon Research Institute, received the 2000 University Products Award for Distinguished Achievement in Conservation. This consists of a plaque, a $5000 cash award, and $500 towards AIC meeting attendance.
• Jose Orraca and Christa Gaehde received the 2000 Sheldon and Caroline Keck Award at the AIC conference in recognition of their dedication to the education of conservators. Jose Orraca established training in photographic conservation at the University of Delaware conservation program, taught at Cooperstown, founded and chaired Conservators in Private Practice and the AIC Photographic Materials Specialty Group, and established APOYO (with two Latin American conservators). Christa Gaehde has taught paper conservators, beginning and advanced, for over 50 years. In 1965 she co-authored the first book by a professional paper conservator to educate lay people, A Guide to Collecting and Care of Original Prints.
• Madelyn Garrett, formerly conservator at the Marriott Library, University of Utah, has become a curator of rare books at the Marriott Library, and has been active in outreach and public events involving books. Last October she received the 1999 Governor's Award in the Humanities for her roles in the traveling exhibit Westward Bound, the Marriott Library Book Arts Program and the Rocky Mountain Guild of Book Workers.
• Agnes Gräfin (Countess) von Ballestrem, legendary champion of conservation in Europe, retired April 1 from her position as Director of the Instituut Collectie Nederland (ICN). A farewell symposium was held March 24 in Amsterdam, with speakers from the Netherlands and abroad, on themes that were dear to her heart: the training of conservators to a high standard, research by conservators, restoration of polychrome sculpture in Latin America, and the Delta-Plan for preservation in the Netherlands.