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Annual Meeting News 3

People 9

Worth Noting 10

New Materials and Research 11

Grants and Fellowships 12

Grant Deadlines 13

In Memoriam 14

Allied Organizations 15

Specialty Groups 16

Courses, Conferences, and Seminars 19

Positions, Internships, and Fellowships 25

The lovely city of Providence, Rhode Island was the venue for the 34th Annual

Meeting of the American Institute of Conservation. A new, more compact four-day
schedule was enacted this year, in an attempt to make the conference shorter and
more affordable for many people. As part of the new format, the General Session was
split into two half-day sessions, and Specialty Group meetings began on the first after-
noon. At the end of the first day, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Museum of Art generously held the Opening Reception in their attractive galleries.
The end of the reception was timed perfectly so that attendees who walked back to
their hotels were able to view the magical WaterFire, a fire sculpture installation by
Barnaby Evans on the three rivers in downtown Providence.

The general session opened with a keynote address from Professor Amareswar

Galla. After a long, difficult flight from Australia, Dr. Galla spoke eloquently on the
importance of viewing conservation in the larger context of heritage management
and as part of sustainable development. He stressed the importance of preservation as
a way to offer support to communities and individuals in their current struggles for
identity and development, in contrast to considering preservation as an idealized view
of the past. Dr. Galla holds two concurrent professorships as the Director of Graduate
Studies in Sustainable Heritage Development in the Research School of Pacific and
Asian Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra and as Professor of
Museum Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.

The session then continued with two case study talks that clearly showed how

conservators can work hand-in-hand with communities that have a desire and need
to save their cultural heritage. Renata Peters, from the Institute of Archaeology,

University College London, spoke on her work
with a Peruvian community to improve the
preservation of the only known collection of
Khipu still in use. Khipu are cotton and wool
cords that have been used for bureaucratic
recording since the Inca Empire. Julia M.
Brennan,Textile Conservation Services, showed
gorgeous slides of textiles from monasteries in
Bhutan. She openly shared her questions about
whether she is serving people or serving things
as she works directly with the local monk care-
takers to find ways to better preserve the arti-
facts.

Lectures that followed described case stud-

ies in which objects with particular meanings
were interpreted in a variety of ways.Vicki
Cassman, University of Delaware presented a talk
co-authored with Nancy Odegaard, Arizona
State Museum, on their work with the politically
charged Kennewick Man skeletal remains and
included information about the various

July 2006

Vol. 31, No. 4

Conference Report 2006:
Using Artifacts: Is Conservation
Compromised?

Dr. Amareswar Galla during the keynote speech of the first General Session on
Saturday, June 17, 2006.

continued on page 5

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AIC NEWS

From the President

Congratulations to all who presented papers and

posters at the recent 34th Annual AIC meeting in
Providence, Rhode Island. It was a very successful meeting
that brought over 1,000 conservators together from over 44
states and 20 countries. Special thanks go to Eliza Gilligan,
chair of the General Session Committee, who with vice
president Martin Burke arranged a thought-provoking pro-
gram that included 10 papers and a keynote address from
Dr.Amareswar Galla of Australia.There were 7 workshops, 4
tours, over 90 specialty group papers, a lively Issues Session,
40 poster presentations for members to attend, and many
exhibitors with a vast array of products and services geared

toward our field.We especially thank the Getty Foundation for supporting the participa-
tion of 28 Latin American Scholars.The planning and preparation on the part of the AIC
staff is to be especially commended, as they were ready and able to handle problems and
really made things run smoothly. Please remember to contact the AIC staff if you experi-
enced difficulties during the annual meeting.

There were two Angels Project events scheduled with this year's annual meeting.

Sixteen conservators volunteered to work with water damaged rare books at the
Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, RI, and a panel discussion entitled From
Hurricane Katrina to Newport: Disaster Response and Recovery was held at the Preservation
Society of Newport County. In addition, Mary Striegel and Paul Messier were among the
speakers at an event that prompted a $20,000 award from Homeland Security, Rhode
Island Emergency Management Agency, to develop a statewide network of experiences
professionals for institutions to contact for emergency preparedness and response assis-
tance.The event also prompted an acknowledged increased awareness for the importance
of cultural property during a disaster from state officials in Rhode Island.

There was a definite buzz at the meeting regarding the Professional Associate and

Fellow categories of membership, as many conservators were talking about submitting
applications.The Board of Directors applauds this interest and with the Membership
Committee, remains available to answer questions and assist members with the application
process. Hopefully we will see many more of the colorful PA and Fellow ribbons at the
Richmond meeting.

The big change for AIC members to consider is the next Annual Meeting and its

move to April.The change is due to the recommendations of the Annual Meeting Task
Force combined with a desire to be in the Washington D.C. area in 2007 with a good
conference hotel rate.A wider window of possible meeting dates made us more competi-
tive in the hotel-conference booking process and led us to the April dates. Our meeting
will take place on Wednesday April 18th,Thursday the 19th, and Friday the 20th.The
tours and workshops will be held over Monday April 16th and Tuesday the 17th.This
change means that all aspects of preparing a meeting are moved up.The Call for Papers
for the 2007 Annual Meeting General Session is July 21, 2006. Jamie Martin is chairing
this session titled Fakes, Forgeries, and Fabrications.

Finally, I would like to thank Jane E. Klinger for her excellent service over the past

five years as Director of Committees and Task Forces and welcome Cathy Hawks, who
has replaced her. I wish you all a great summer and hope you are already planning to
gather again in Richmond.

--Nancy Odegaard, President

Arizona State Museum, Preservation Division

odegaard@u.arizona.edu

CORRECTION

On page four of the 2005 AIC and FAIC Annual Report insert in the May AIC News (vol. 31, no. 3), support for the Photographic Materials

Specialty Group's book, Coatings on Photographs: Materials,Techniques, and Conservation was only credited to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

In fact,The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation also played a crucial role in making the publication of this book possible.The AIC News staff

expresses its apologies for the mistaken omission of that much-appreciated support.

AIC News

Staff Transitions

We are pleased to announce that Sloan

Carroll joined the staff on May 17 as publi-
cations manager. Sloan brings creative serv-
ices and brand management experience to
the position, having previously worked at
Time Life Music and The Richards Group,
where she managed the development of
award-winning music packaging and lever-
aged consumer insight to help build adver-
tising campaigns for national clients. Sloan's
organizational and creative management
skills will be applied to AIC's current publi-
cations and will help enhance future com-
munication activities. Please feel free to
contact Sloan at scarroll@aic-faic.org or
(202) 452-9545 ext. 13.

We would like to thank Jennifer

Andruzzi, former publications manager, for
her hard work this past year. We will miss
having her as part of our team and wish her
the best of luck on her future endeavors.

New AIC Workshop Scheduled

"Inpainting of Glaze Spalls on

Architectural Terra Cotta and Tiles" is the
latest offering in AIC's series of professional
development workshops. The workshop will
take place November 1012 (Veterans' Day
weekend) at the Neighborhood
Preservation Center in New York City.
Taught by Judy Jacob of the National Park
Service and Vicki Parry of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the three-day workshop
will also feature talks by Susan Tunick,
founder and President of Friends of Terra
Cotta.

The registration fee for AIC members

is $350. Early registration is advised.
Participants may use AIC's special rates at
any of three Club Quarters hotels in
Manhattan. Full details and registration
forms can be found on the AIC website,
http://www.aic-faic.org, under "education,"
or by contacting Eric Pourchot, Professional
Development Director, at (202) 452-9545
ext. 12 or at epourchot@aic-faic.org.

This program is funded by the FAIC

Endowment for Professional Development,
which is supported by The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation and by contributions
from members and friends of AIC. Without
this funding, the registration fee for this
workshop would be approximately $675.

Annual Meeting News

AIC Angels

On Friday June 9, 2006, thirteen AIC

members assembled at the Redwood Library
and Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island, to
assist in a survey of the Rare Book collection.
Founded in 1747, the Redwood is the oldest
continuously circulating library in America
and is faced with many conservation and
restoration needs. Specifically, the Rare Book
collection of approximately 3,274 books was
recently damaged in a fire at a storage facility
that was being rented while the library's reno-
vations were underway.

AIC members were joined by Redwood

Library staff and volunteers for an eight hour
survey including photography of each of 337
volumes.Working in teams, each book was
assigned a 1 to 4 ranking based on severity of
damage, with 1 being the worst. Most vol-
umes suffered water staining of boards and/or
text block. Along with dimensions, binding
and text block condition were recorded in
check-box format. Ultimately, the survey
forms will be merged with the digital photos
and all information organized in an Access
database.

During lunch, an optional tour of

Newport's exquisite coastline and mansions
was offered to participants and each Angel
was awarded an apron from the Redwood
Library and a T-shirt from AIC as a show of
appreciation.

Grateful thanks to the following Angels

for their enthusiastic participation: Michaelle
Biddle, Alicia Bjornson, Angela Campbell,
Sophie Hammond-Hagman, Katharine Kelly,
Leslie Long, Susan Lunas, Bruce MacLeish,
Shana McKenna, Dana Melchar, Bobbie
Pilette, Crystal Stevenson, and Dawn Walus.

Thanks also to the staff of the Redwood

Library who worked tirelessly to insure all
Angels were well looked after, the work flow
was smooth, all supplies were at hand (thanks
in particular for those plastic squares!) and a
delicious lunch was available at tables under
trees replete with dappled sunlight!

--Elizabeth Morse

Angels Project Manager

3 AIC NEWS, July 2006

Thank you to this

year's Exhibitors:

Archetype Publications Ltd

Archivart

Art Innovation B.V.

Art Preservation Services

BMS Castastophe/UTECH

Bruker-AXS Inc.

Canadian Conservation
Institute

Conservation Data
Systems, LLC

Conservation Resources
International LLC

Crystallizations Systems,
Inc.

Dorfman Museum Figures,
Inc.

EDAX, Inc.

Gaylord Brothers

Getty Conservation
Institute

Getty Publications

Hiromi Paper
International, Inc.

Hollinger Corporation

Huntington T. Block
Insurance Agency, Inc.

Innov-X Systems

Kasemate/McKenna
Systems, Inc.

Keepsafe
Systems/Microclimate

KeyMaster Technologies

Maryland Glass and Mirror
Company Inc.

MasterPak

Metal Edge, Inc.

MuseuM Services
Corporation

NCPTT

Paper Connection
International, LLC

Preservation Glazing, Inc.

Small Corp.

TALAS

Technologies International

TruVue

University Products

Ventura Insurance
Brokerage, Inc.

4 AIC NEWS, July 2006

Annual Meeting Awards

Annual awards began early this year,

with the presentation of the

2006 Award

for Outstanding Commitment to the
Preservation and Care of Collections

to the

Historical Society of Frederick

County

on May 18.This national award

was given jointly by AIC and Heritage
Preservation, recognizing the extent to
which this historical society in Maryland
serves as a model for what a relatively
small organization can do to impressively
care for its collections.

While in Providence, awards were

presented to some of our most distin-
guished members during both the
General Sessions on Saturday and Sunday
and during the AIC Business Meeting.
The awards given at the Business
Meeting were meant to recognize the
value and importance of not only the
people in the field of conservation, but
also the organizations, institutions, and
individuals who support our goals and
collaborate with us to help us achieve
them.To express this gratitude, a new
award category, the

Allied Professionals

Award

, was created by the AIC Board to

honor those who collaborate with the
conservation field to advance the profes-
sion with crossover technologies or
approaches.

Mark Golden

of Golden

Artist Colors, Inc. and

John Johnston

innovator in the pressure sensitive tape
field, were the inaugural recipients of this
special recognition.Also during the
Business Meeting,

Honorary

Membership to AIC

was awarded to

Konstanze Bachmann

, a private practice

paper conservator, and

Marjorie Cohn

of Harvard University Art Museums in
recognition of their outstanding contri-
butions to the field of conservation.

This year's

University Products

Award for Distinguished Achievement
in Conservation

was presented by John

Dunphy of University Products to

Richard Wolbers

of Winterthur

Museum.The award recognizes the
accomplishments and contributions of
conservation professionals who, through
substantial efforts, have advanced the field
of conservation through research, out-
reach, and advocacy. Richard has made
selfless and indelible contributions to the
field across all areas of specialization, but
especially in his exploration of gel and
fluorescent techniques.

The Sheldon & Caroline Keck

Award

, established to recognize the dedi-

cation of senior conservators and conser-
vation scientists who have contributed to
the education and training of profession-
als in the field, was awarded to

Nora

Kennedy

of the Metropolitan Museum

of Art and

Catharine Hawks

, private

conservator and adjunct professor at
George Washington University.These two
Keck Award recipients have served as
steadfast mentors and teachers, providing
advice and encouragement to conserva-
tors, students and allied professionals.

The AIC is always grateful for the

involvement of members willing to gen-
erously dedicate time and expertise to
help further the organization's programs
and goals, and therefore is always glad to
announce the recipients of the

Rutherford John Gettens Merit Award

for service to AIC.This year's worthy
recipients are

Rebecca Anne Rushfield

private textiles conservator, and

Jerry

Podany

, of the J. Paul Getty Museum,

and past AIC president.

The Annual Meeting awards were

concluded with the presentation of the

President's Award

by Nancy Odegaard

Eric Hansen

of the Getty

Conservation Institute. Eric's distin-
guished 20-year career in conservation
has led to the publication of seminal
works that have greatly impacted many
specialties in the field and are of direct
relevance to the practice of conservation
overall.

Clockwise from top left: Chris Stavroudis, Molly Lambert,
and John Dunphy oversee the presentation of The
University Products Award, Joyce Hill Stone hands over
the Rutherford John Gettens Merit Award to Rebecca
Rushfield, Martin Burke presents the same award to
Jerry Podany, Lisa Goldberg presents the Keck Award
to Catharine Hawks, Nancy Odegaard presents the
President's Award to Eric Hansen, and Debra Hess
Norris presents the Keck Award to Nora Kennedy.

5 AIC NEWS, July 2006

claimants. Over some years, they have
rehoused the remains, documented condition
changes over time, and have worked to mini-
mize the damaging effects of numerous analy-
ses. Through their interactions with the sci-
entists who are handling the specimens, they
have helped to revise some methods so less
damage occurs during analysis. Jane Klinger,
U.S. Holocaust Museum, gave several exam-
ples of important items, including a wedding
dress made from a parachute, that are regularly
used and accessed because of the important
and emotional stories that they tell. She dis-
cussed how conservators work with other
staff to ensure that the physical preservation
of the object is taken into account in tandem
with exhibit, publication, filming and other
projects.

Pamela Hatchfield, Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, then gave a clear history of the cre-
ation, use and effects of the use of Paul
Revere's famous copper plate engraving
"Massacre on State Street," including a
description of the controversy that followed a
decision to reprint the engraving in order to
raise funds for the Massachusetts State
Archives Commonwealth Museum. Her dis-
cussion of the various interpretations and uses
of the image and the plate led to contempla-
tion about ownership, justifiable use, and defi-
nitions of damage.

Lectures presented during the second

day of the general session continued to
explore the theme of collections use through
descriptions of different historical institutions
that have combined new and evolving meth-
ods of interpretation with thoughtful tech-
niques to ensure preservation. Robin
Campbell, Supervising Curator from the New
York State Bureau of Historic Sites, showed
how objects are placed in the context of a
specific time of day so that the visitor feels
that the people have just stepped out of the
room for a moment. Displays are constructed
using a mixture of reproductions and original
artifacts which are displayed with preservation
concerns in mind. The struggles to preserve
artifacts and structures at the remote Bremner
Historic District in Alaska, which interprets
the gold mining industry of the mid-20th
century, were illustrated by Kate Singley,
Conservator in Private Practice while work-
ing with the National Park Service (NPS). At
this site, the NPS has adopted an interpretive
strategy of leaving industrial artifacts on the
landscape to generate a contemplative reac-
tion as visitors come across them while they
move through the park.These items are pro-
tected from the harsh environmental condi-
tions by a variety of passive methods that

make them less accessible but allow use by
visitors and NPS crews who come to the site.
Richard Kerschner presented a talk co-
authored with Nancie Ravenel, on evolving
methods of display and preservation that have
taken place over the last two decades at the
Shelburne Museum. Using a number of dif-
ferent exhibit projects, he illustrated how the
museum uses different methods of display,
access, and use to interpret different portions
of its collections. He also described how dis-
play techniques have come full circle so that
artifacts are now more accessible and are pre-
sented in ways that mirror original exhibits,
but include careful evaluation of visitor inter-
action with the objects. Malcolm Collum,
from The Henry Ford Museum and
Greenfield Village, described a fourtiered
ranking system, which is employed by his
institution to decide whether or not historic
vehicles will be used and driven and how. He
defined the role of conservation in the muse-
um as ensuring object use with the appropri-
ate level of care.

The general session was notable because

conservators shared the personal and emo-
tional aspects of their work in describing how
their collections are used or carry multiple
meanings. Examples include Richard
Kerschner's request for us as colleagues to
share our responses to their work at the
Shelburne, Julia Bremner's clear illustration of
how she is finding a way to share her meth-
ods of preservation with the monk caretakers,
and Malcolm Collum's photograph of himself
driving one of the historic vehicles.
Conservators are now more and more
involved in aspects of presentation and discus-
sions about use of material artifacts with
museum colleagues, indigenous communities,
and the general public.This process forces
conservators to focus careful and rational
thought on why we are doing what we are
doing. Because of our willingness to attempt
new collaborative ways of doing our work,
we are making ourselves more and more rele-
vant to our institutions, our professional col-
leagues in other fields, and to the public who
want to access and use artifacts.

--Jessica Johnson

National Museum of the American Indian

Road to

Richmond

Winner

Congratulations to

Chong Nguyen, a

student member

from East

Syracuse, New

York, who

successfully had his

Road to Richmond

card initialed by

personnel at 35

Exhibit Booths and

has been chosen

by a random

drawing from all

submitted cards.

Chong will receive

a free registration

for AIC's 2007

Annual Meeting in

Richmond,

Virginia, from

April 1620.

continued from page 1

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People

Audrey Amidon

, a recent

graduate of the University of East
Anglia in Archival Film Studies, has
joined the staff of the National
Archives and Records Administration
(NARA), Special Media Preservation
Laboratory, where she will focus on
motion picture preservation for the
Archives' audiovisual holdings.

Cathleen Baker

, PhD, has

recently become Senior Paper
Conservator at the University of
Michigan Libraries. Cathy is current-
ly a Samuel H. Kress Conservation
Publication Fellow, working on a
book about nineteenth-century
American paper technologies, mate-
rials, characteristics, and conserva-
tion.

Pamela Betts

joined the staff

of the ARTEX Conservation
Laboratory in Washington, DC as a
Conservator of Paintings in
November 2005. Before coming to
ARTEX, Pam completed a three-
year Culpeper Fellowship in
Paintings Conservation at the
National Gallery of Art. She has also
worked at the Williamstown Art
Conservation Center and completed
internships at the Straus Center for
Conservation at Harvard and the
Indianapolis Museum of Art. She
can be reached at (301) 350-5500 or
pbetts@artexfas.com.

Terry Boone

has returned to

the Document Conservation
Laboratory at NARA to manage the
very active exhibits and loan conser-
vation program

The Conservation Center of

the Institute of Fine Arts is pleased
to announce the incoming students
for the graduating class of 2010:

Melissa Gardner

Eliza

Spaulding

Amy Tjiong

Lindsey

Tyne

Laleña Vellanoweth

Jeanne Drewes

has been

appointed as Chief of the Binding
and Collections Care Division in the
Preservation Directorate of the
Library of Congress. She comes with
management experience in collec-
tions care and binding at Michigan
State University and Johns Hopkins,
where she supervised binders, ven-
dors, and trainees.

Patricia Ewer

has been

appointed to the position of

Treatment Conservation Manager in
the Conservation & Collections Care
section of the Conservation
Department at Historic Royal
Palaces (HRP). Patricia came to
HRP from The Upper Midwest
Conservation Association (now
Midwest Art Conservation Center),
in Minneapolis. She was the princi-
pal of Textile Objects Conservation
in Asheville, North Carolina. She has
also worked at the Textile
Conservation Laboratory at the
Cathedral Church of St. John the
Divine, The Textile Conservation
Workshop in South Salem, New
York, and the Minneapolis Institute
of Art.

Pamela Hatchfield

will be in

Rome from August 2006 to July
2007 to work on her project for the
Rome Prize, Artists Using
Architecture: Exploring the Relationship
between Architecture, Contemporary Art
and Conservation. She can be reached
at phatchfield@mfa.org or pbh-
mot@yahoo.com. Her address is:
The American Academy in Rome,
Via Angelo Masina, 5, 00153 Roma
ITALIA, Telefono 39 06 58461; Fax
39 06 5810788.

Hanako Hirano

, University of

Tokyo conservation graduate stu-
dent, is interning in archives conser-
vation in NARA's Document
Conservation Laboratory for this
academic year.

Michael Horsley

is now a

Digital Imaging Specialist in the
Special Media Preservation
Laboratory, National Archives at
NARA, and is working on a broad
range of digital imaging projects. He
was formerly at the Library of
Congress.

Dr. Nels Olson

has been

appointed as Chief of the
Preservation Research and Testing
Division in the Preservation
Directorate of the Library of
Congress. Olson comes from the
biotechnology field, having been
Staff Scientist at Molecular
Dynamics and the Senior Staff
Scientist and Associate Director for
Systems Analysis and Integration at
Illumina, where he oversaw forensic
analysis, quality assurance, and
research and development. He was
an engineer before obtaining his

doctorate in organic synthesis and
analytical chemistry. Following that
he was a Fulbright fellow and had
occasion to work on preservation
projects abroad.

cott David Reinke

recently

joined NARA as Preservation
Specialist in the National Personnel
Records Center Preservation
Program in St. Louis. Scott came
from the University of Hawai'i at
Manoa Library where he managed
their Conservation Program.

Ann Seibert

, formerly of the

Library of Congress, has taken the
position of Assistant Director,
Preservation Programs at NARA,
where she addresses agency-wide
management and administration
needs for preservation and projects.

Dianne van der Reyden

has

been appointed as Director of
Preservation at the Library of
Congress, overseeing the
Preservation Directorate's
Reformatting, Conservation, Binding
and Collections Care, and
Preservation Research and Testing
Divisions. Formerly she served as
Acting Director and Chief of the
Conservation Division at the LOC.
Her career includes twenty years as a
conservator at the Smithsonian
Institution where she worked with
library and archives collections,
supervised two different laboratories,
and published numerous articles.

Alisa Vignalo

has been

appointed to the new staff position
of Assistant Conservator of Objects
at the Barnes Foundation. Formerly,
Alisa maintained a private practice in
Philadelphia. She graduated in 2002
from the Winterthur/University of
Delaware Program in Art
Conservation and completed a third
year internship and fourth year fel-
lowship at the Worcester Art
Museum. She can be reached at
(610) 667-0290 x 2256 or avigna-
lo@barnesfoundation.org.

Diane Vogt-O'Connor

has

been appointed as Chief of
Conservation in the Preservation
Directorate of the Library of
Congress. Her former job experi-
ences include supervision of conser-
vators and conservation of special
collections at NARA, the National
Park Service and the Smithsonian

10 AIC NEWS, July 2006

Institution. She has authored several
works on preservation, as well as
over two-dozen Conserv-o-Grams
on topics including photographic
materials, rare books and digital proj-
ects.

The Winterthur/University of

Delaware Program in Art
Conservation proudly announces the
students admitted into the 2006
entering class:

Erica Cooney

Lisa

Duncan

Louise Groll

Bret

Headley

Jessica Keister

Meghan

McFarlane

Lauren McMullen

Sharon Norquest

Cynthia

Schwarz

, and

Katharine Wight

The program's third-year stu-

dents, their internship sites and
majors are:

Amelia Bagnall

Cultural Resource Conservation
Initiative, New Delhi, India and The
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in
Painted and Decorative Surfaces;

Jessica Chloros

--Worcester Art

Museum and Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum in Objects;

Catherine Coueignoux

--Victoria

and Albert Museum and Yannick
Shastang Conservation in Furniture
and Wooden Objects;

Matt

Cushman

--Worcester Art Museum

in Paintings;

Jakki Godfrey

--The

Brooklyn Museum in Objects;

Yeonjoo Kim

Rustin Levenson Art

Conservation Associates, Ltd. in
Paintings;

Anya McDavis

Conway

--Museum of New Mexico

in Objects;

Meg Newburger

Walters Art Museum and Sian Jones
in Paintings;

Marie Rizkalla

Midwest Art Conservation Center in
Paintings.

Worth Noting

Request for Collection Survey
Check-List Forms from the
New Orleans Museum of Art

Lisa Rotondo-McCord, the

Curator of Asian Art at the New
Orleans Museum of Art, is seeking
suggestions for a condition survey
check-list form she would like to
develop. Specifically, she is looking
to create quick check-box forms for
the museum's conservation assess-
ment project/art storage relocation.
She plans to create four forms:
·

Paintings/Frames

Sculpture

Works on paper/Japanese scrolls
and screens

Objects

For works of art that need more

than routine wiping/dusting, the
forms are meant to allow contract
conservators to indicate pigment
loss, surface dirt, discolored varnish,
the need for relining, in-painting,
and other pertinent information that
can then be compiled and used to
apply for a more detailed conserva-
tion grants.

Any members who have a form

that could be useful to the NOMA
should reply directly to Lisa
Rotondo-McCord at lrotondomc
cord@yahoo.com or (504) 658-
4113.

IMLS Publishes Research
Showing Technology at
America's Museums on the Rise

The Institute of Museum and

Library Services has recently pub-
lished new research into the use of
technology and digitization at the
nation's museums and libraries.
Status of Technology and
Digitization is a follow-up study to
the first-ever research conducted on
the subject in 2001.

The initial study established

baseline data about the kinds of
technologies libraries and museums
employed and the emerging digitiza-
tion activities that were beginning to
make collections widely available.
The second study delves deeper and
as a result has discoverd more about
how and why our cultural institu-
tions use technology and undertake
digitization projects.

Key findings from the study

include:
·

The percentage of small museums
with Web sites grew from the first
survey's 40 percent to 78 percent.

84.5 percent of small museums
now use e-mail, up from only
53.1 percent in 2001.

Broadband Internet connections
are easing out dial-up/modem
connections, even among smaller
institutions.

Digitization activities have also
increased among all groups, with
archives, state library
administrative agencies, and

museums leading the way.

"We encourage you to read,

discuss, and share this survey report,"
said Dr. Anne-Imelda M. Radice,
Director of the Institute. "It provides
important insights about technology
and digitization trends and the needs
of the nation's libraries, museums,
and archives."

To access this report, visit

www.imls.gov/publications/TechDig
05/index.htm.

AASLH Resources: Technical
Leaflets Help With Exhibit
Planning

AASLH is offering a new tech-

nical leaflet bundle that includes
three technical leaflets illustrating
different approaches to planning an
exhibit--including artifact selection
and tracking resources. Two addi-
tional technical leaflets in the bundle
spotlight two facets of exhibit plan-
ning that should be incorporated in
the planning process from the begin-
ning--audience evaluation and arti-
fact conservation. The leaflets in this
bundle provide a valuable overview
of exhibit planning and include bib-
liographies that point to more
detailed guidance.

Individual technical leaflets may

be purchased for $6 each/$5 for
members. Electronic downloadable
versions are available for $4 each/$3
for members. Save and order the
whole bundle listed above
(BNDL006 Exhibit Planning--hard
copy only) for $27.00/$22.50 for
members.

To place an order, visit the

AASLH Bookstore at
www.aaslhnet.org/aaslhssa/ecessas
hop.shopping_page, call (615) 320-
3202, fax orders to (615) 327-9013,
or send your order information to:
AASLH Order Fulfillment, 1717
Church Street, Nashville, TN 37203-
2991.

Prestigious Rome Prize
Awarded

Pamela Hatchfield, Head of

Objects Conservation, Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, was awarded the
Booth Family Rome Prize in
Conservation and Historic
Preservation by The American
Academy in Rome at the 110th

annual Rome Prize Competition.

For her project, Artists Using

Architecture: Exploring the Relationship
between Architecture, Contemporary Art
and Conservation, she will be looking
at contemporary art installed within
historic settings and examining the
related conservation issues. The proj-
ect grew out of a poster she present-
ed at the International Institute for
Conservation meeting in Bilbao,
Spain, about integrating contempo-
rary art into old collections. Her
observations were based on works at
the MFA which include alterations
made by John Singer Sargent to the
Museum's Huntington entrance and
installations by Sarah Sze, Jonathan
Borofsky, and Tom Patti, which were
incorporated into the architectural
fabric of the building. She will be
working with artists, curators, con-
servators, architectural historians, and
historic preservation professionals
and will study installations in Italy,
France, Spain, Germany, Austria, and
England.

Established in 1894 and char-

tered by an Act of Congress in 1905,
the American Academy in Rome is a
center that sustains independent
artistic pursuits and humanistic stud-
ies. It is situated on the Janiculum,
the highest hill within the walls of
Rome. The Rome Prize is a highly
prestigious award, given annually to
a group of individuals selected to
pursue studies in eleven fields of lit-
erature, music, architecture, the arts,
and design, through an open national
competition that is juried by leading
artists and scholars in the fellowship
fields. Awardees are provided with a
stipend, a study or studio, and room
and board for a period of six months
to two years.

Pamela Hatchfield will be leav-

ing for Rome this summer. Contact
information for her can be found on
page eight in the People column.

Laura Bush Announces $1.5
Million in Aid to Help
Beleaguered Museums and
Libraries in Federally Declared
Disaster Areas

On May 31st, First Lady Laura

Bush announced additional aid from
the Institute of Museum and Library
Services to help libraries and muse-

ums in major disaster areas in their
recovery. The Institute, an independ-
ent United States government
agency, is the primary source of fed-
eral support for the nation's 122,000
libraries and 17,500 museums.

"In March, the Institute of

Museum and Library Services
announced more than $670,000 in
grants to help seven museums recov-
er their collections and re-open to
the public," said Mrs. Bush. "And
today, I'm happy to announce that
the Institute is reserving $1.5 million
of the grant money it will award
over the next year for projects relat-
ed to the Gulf Coast and other areas
that have suffered major disasters."

Laura Bush made the

announcement during her keynote
address for "Rebirth: People, Places
and Culture in New Orleans," a
conference held to examine the role
New Orleans' cultural legacy will
play in the city's recovery from
Hurricane Katrina. Cosponsored by
Tulane University and the National
Trust for Historic Preservation and
held from May 30 to June 1 at the
university, the conference brought
approximately 200 national, state,
and local decision makers and
regional preservation and higher
education communities together to
energize and elevate the discussion
of the important role arts and cul-
ture play in the reconstruction
efforts following Hurricane Katrina.

New Materials and
Research

Medical Vacuum Cushions:
Providing Total Support for
Large Objects

In October 2004 the Egyptian

galleries of the Fitzwilliam Museum
closed for complete refurbishment.
The new displays were opened to
the public in May this year. During
disassembly of the galleries, the safe
removal of a Roman Period red-
shroud mummy from its display case
presented a particular challenge,
because of its upright exhibition
position and fragile painted surfaces.
Conservators were concerned that
placing this dense, but soft and inter-

nally complex package in a different
orientation after so many years
standing in the display case might
alter its internal stresses, causing
additional fracture of the structure
and flaking of the paint. A method
was sought to create an exact profile
of the back of the mummy whilst
still standing, so that full support
would be offered as the body was
removed from the case and laid
down.

Small vacuum cushions (of the

type sold by photographic suppliers)
have sometimes been used by con-
servators to support objects under-
going treatment. `Man-sized' versions
of such cushions, capable of much
finer conformity to a shape and able
to hold a vacuum for much longer
periods, are available from suppliers
of medical equipment. They are used
to immobilize patients during treat-
ments such as radiotherapy. Made
from a smooth, nylon-reinforced
urethane skin, the cushions are par-
tially filled with tiny polystyrene
beads. At one corner is a valve to
which a vacuum pump can be
attached. An electric pump would
normally be used with patients, but
for slow evacuation around a fragile

11 AIC NEWS, July 2006

Roman-period mummy supported in an
upright position by medical vacuum
pillow, Fitzwilliam Museum.

12 AIC NEWS, July 2006

object a hand pump offers better
control. As the air is pumped out,
the cushion can be gently manipu-
lated to ensure that the contours of
the object are given full support. The
vacuum holds for several weeks and
can easily be topped up with a hand
pump.

For the mummy, the cushion

was first laid flat then semi-deflated
so that it was rigid enough to be
placed behind the upright body, but
still soft enough to be moulded easi-
ly to its shape as further air was
evacuated, without exerting pressure
on the structure. Once the cushion
was hard, the package of body and
cushion was tipped backwards and
laid down. This perfectly contoured
cushion was then used to support
the mummy temporarily in storage
prior to conservation and during a
trip to the local hospital for a CT
scan.

The vacuum cushions are made

in a variety of geometric and `body-
part' shapes and sizes. We have found
innumerable uses for them in the
protection and manipulation of
objects during transport and conser-
vation treatment. For example, part
of a friable, delaminating coffin lid
made of low-fired pottery which was
too fragile to be moved was cush-
ioned on the top surface to allow
the object to be safely turned over
without any disruption to the struc-
ture and orientation of the pieces.
The pillow provided complete sup-
port for the object so that structural
conservation work could be carried
out on the back surface.

Vac-Lok

cushions are made in

the USA by Med-Tec and are avail-
able in the UK from Oncology
Systems Ltd (www.osl.uk.com).

A version of this article first

appeared in Icon News in May 2006.
It is reprinted here by kind permission of
the publishers, the Institute of
Conservation.

--Julie Dawson

Senior Assistant Keeper (Conservation)

Department of Antiquities

Fitzwilliam Museum

University of Cambridge, UK

Grants and Fellowships

Institute of Museum and
Library Services Awards Over
$2.7 Million for Conservation

The federal Institute of

Museum and Library Services
(IMLS) announced on April 18 the
40 museum recipients of the 2006
Conservation Project Support grants
totaling $2,772,000. The recipients
will match the grants with an addi-
tional $4,609,603. This year the
Institute received 144 applications
for a wide range of projects, includ-
ing conservation treatment, training,
and surveys. Six of the recipients
won additional funding for a public
education component to their con-
servation project. Museums nation-
wide of all disciplines, from art to
zoo, are among the recipients.

"The urgent need for this fed-

eral conservation assistance was
recently underscored by the Heritage
Health Index, the first comprehen-

sive survey of the conditions and
preservation needs of our nation's
museum and library collections," said
Dr. Anne-Imelda M. Radice,
Director of the IMLS. "Conducted
by Heritage Preservation, Inc. in
partnership with the Institute, the
Heritage Health Index found that
immediate action is needed to pre-
vent the loss of millions of irreplace-
able artifacts."

Projects include the conserva-

tion of early 17th century artifacts
from Historic St. Mary's City in
Maryland, research at the Zoological
Society of Cincinnati and the Center
for Plant Conservation to revive
populations of 39 highly endangered
plants species, and a detailed condi-
tion survey of Indian paintings from
the 13th to the 19th century of the
world-renowned Mughal and Rajput
styles at the University of
Wisconsin's Chazen Museum of Art.

Conservation Project Support

awards help museums identify con-
servation needs and priorities and
perform activities to ensure the safe-
keeping of their collections. The
grants are awarded through competi-
tive peer review and require at least
a 100 percent match by the appli-
cant. These grants help museums
develop a logical, institution-wide
approach to caring for their collec-
tions. The program is an essential
component of the Institute's goal to
sustain cultural heritage as a means
of creating and sustaining a nation of
learners.

"It takes just four minutes of not breathing to cause brain

damage. Do you have emergency training? Do your colleagues?

Ask your local Red Cross, call your health department, or

consult your fire department to find out where you can take a

class in first aid and CPR."

--A reminder from the AIC Health and Saftey Committee

Grant and Fellowship Deadlines

Please note that this column will soon be moved to the

AIC website in order to facilitate easier access to information
about application requirements. If you have comments regarding
this proposed change, please direct them to the editor, Lisa
Goldberg, at lgoldberg@ stny.rr.com before September 1, 2006.

American Association of Museums (AAM) at
www.aam-us.org

American Association for State and Local History
(AASLH) and the History Channel, at info@saveourhistory.
com

Alderson Internship Grant Applications deadline:
December 15

FAIC, at www.aic-faic.org

FAIC Samuel H. Kress Conservation Publication
Fellowships: November 1, 2006

Getty Foundation at www.getty.edu/grants

Architectural Conservation Grants, Planning Grants: April
10, 2007

Architectural Conservation Grants, Implementation
Grants: April 10, 2007

Campus Heritage grants: April 10, 2007

Education and Training Grants, Conservation Training
Program Grants: no deadline

Education and Training Grants, Professional Development
Grants: no deadline

Getty Research Grants for Institutions: no deadline

Getty Conservation Guest Scholar Grants: November 1,
2006

Museum Conservation Grants, Survey Grants: no
deadline

Museum Conservation Grants,Treatment Grants: no
deadline

Heritage Preservation at www.heritagepreservation.org

2006 Conservation Assessment Program (CAP)
application deadline: December 1

Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) at
www.imls.gov

Conservation Project Support: October 1, 2006

Conservation Assessment Program: December 1, 2006

2007 deadlines not yet announced

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), at
www.nea.gov

Arts Indemnity Program: Multiple deadlines

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) at
www.neh.gov

Challenge Grants: November 1, 2006

Consultation Grants for Museums, Libraries, or Special
Projects: September 16, 2006

Grant to Preserve and Create Access to Humanities
Collections: July 25, 2006

Planning Grants for Museums, Libraries, and Special

Projects: September 11, 2006

Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants:
July 3, 2006

Preservation and Access Research and Development
Projects Grants: July 3, 2006; Precis due May 16

Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions:
May 15, 2007

Reference Materials Grants: July 17, 2006

Stabilization of Humanities Collections Grants: October
3, 2006

United States Newspaper Programs: July 3, 2006

The National Center for Preservation Technology and
Training (NCPTT), at www.ncptt.nps.gov

PTT Grants Call for Proposals: application available
online in September 2006.

National Gallery of Art Fellowships at, www.nga.gov,
under internships

Grant proposals, two deadlines per year: June 1 and
October 1

Paired Fellowship for Research in Conservation and the
History of Art 2006-2007 application deadline: March
21, 2006

Visiting Senior Fellow Program 2006-2007 application
deadlines:

For September 1, 2006February 28, 2007 award
period: March 21, 2006

For March 1August 31, 2007 award period:
September 21, 2006

Preserve America at www.preserveamerica.gov

Preserve America Communities, four application and
designation cycles per year: September 1; December 1;
March 1; June 1

National Historical Publications and Records
Commission (NHPRC) at www.archives.gov/nhprc

Two deadlines per year: June 1 and October 1

Save America's Treasures at www.cr.nps.gov/hps/treasures

2006 deadline has passed; 2007 deadline not yet
announced

Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, contact:
kgrier@winterthur.org

Research Fellowships Application Deadline: January 15,
2007

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In Memoriam

Janice H. Carlson (1943-2006)

Janice H. Carlson, conservation

scientist, was a longtime and respected
member of the Winterthur Museum
Conservation Department, which she
joined 1974. She formally retired as a
senior scientist and head of the
Scientific Research and Analysis
Laboratory in 2003 but continued to
work in the laboratory as a dedicated
volunteer until her untimely death
from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS) on April 19, 2006.

Jan began her professional scien-

tific career after obtaining a MS in
Analytical Chemistry from the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in
1966, and a BA in Chemistry from
Wooster College in 1964. These edu-
cational achievements were particular-
ly notable in the 1960s when very
few women were encouraged to pur-
sue careers in the physical sciences.
However, armed with determination
and a love of chemistry, Jan persevered
despite being one of only two female
chemistry majors in her Wooster
College class. After completing her
graduate studies, Jan secured research
positions at the Upjohn and E. I.
Dupont Companies, which provided
her with a strong background for her
later work in the conservation field.

Shortly after joining the

Winterthur Museum staff as a muse-
um chemist in 1974, she teamed with
Vic Hanson to develop x-ray fluores-
cence spectroscopy (XRF) in the field
of conservation. Together, they skill-
fully and widely applied the technique
to the study of silver, pewter, brass,
glass, and fraktur objects, including
such important regional artifacts as
the Liberty Bell. Their early and influ-
ential work contributed to the adop-
tion of XRF as a fundamental tool
now used routinely by conservation
scientists in museum laboratories
throughout the world.

Jan also promoted the use of

vibrational spectroscopy for the study
of objects of art and was a strong
advocate of data and information
sharing among the conservation sci-
ence community. During the early
years of the Infrared and Raman
Users Group (IRUG), Jan was key in
helping the organization incorporate

and grow. Jan was deeply committed
to IRUG's mission, and her roles in
the organization included those of
incorporator, executive member of the
Board of Directors, Chairperson for
Asia, Africa and Australia, and Senior
Editor. Under her co-leadership, the
Group's conferences gained interna-
tional stature, and its Spectral Database
and website became primary mecha-
nisms for the production and dissemi-
nation of reliable scientific data for
conservation researchers worldwide.

Jan published over thirty research

papers in such scientific journals as
Archaeometry and the Journal of the
American Institute for Conservation, and
her contributions also appeared in
more mainstream media like the New
York Times and The Magazine Antiques.
She delighted in lecturing at national
and international professional meet-
ings, universities, and museums in
such cities as Berlin, Budapest,
Edinburgh, Havana, Lecce, Rhodes,
Amsterdam, and Rome. In recognition
of her scholarship, Jan was honored
with the Spectroscopy Society of
Delaware's "Spectroscopist of the
Year" Award in 1998 and the IRUG
Career Achievement Award in 2006.
Jan also served for many years as a
member of the Williamstown Art
Conservation Center Board of
Trustees.

Beyond her technical accom-

plishments, Jan strived to promote
conservation to a larger community.
She taught conservation science for
eighteen years as a faculty member in
the Winterthur/University of
Delaware Program in Art
Conservation. During that time, Jan
shaped various courses including
advanced analytical methods courses
on chromatography and spectroscopy,
and inspired many students to con-
duct research on collection objects
and treatment methods and materials.
As a tireless mentor, she enjoyed
working with students at all levels,
whether they were doctoral candidates
or undergraduate summer interns
from Muhlenberg College. As an edu-
cator, Jan reached out to an interna-
tional audience when she co-devel-
oped the American Institute for
Conservation short course, "Analytical
Techniques in Conservation" for mid-
career conservators. This innovative

and popular course is still offered at
Williamstown Art Conservation
Center and continues to attract atten-
dees from the U.S. and abroad.

During her years of dedicated

service at the Winterthur Museum,
Jan cared equally for her research and
her beloved students and has left
behind a rich legacy. She not only
enhanced our understanding of the
Museum's collections but she also
developed new scientific databases and
methodologies, influencing a genera-
tion of conservators and conservation
scientists along the way. Among those
who knew Jan, she will be remem-
bered for her warmth, robust laugh
and generous and intelligent spirit.
Although Jan's passing is a tremendous
loss to her colleagues, students, collab-
orators, and many friends, we in the
conservation community are the ben-
eficiaries of her many contributions.

Jan is survived by her husband

and fellow chemist, Norman; their
two sons and wives; her mother,
brother, sister, and a grandson.
Donations in Jan's memory may be
made to the Scientific Research and
Analysis Laboratory at Winterthur
Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735.

--Jennifer Mass, Beth Price,

Alberto de Tagle, Kate Duffy,

Andrew Lins, Catherine Matsen,

and W. Christian Petersen

Joanna Rowntree (1968-2006)

Joanna Rowntree, conservator

for the Nasher Sculpture Center,
passed away from kidney cancer on
May 20, 2006. Only 38 years old,
Rowntree made an impressive con-
tribution to sculpture conservation,
the profession she loved.

Raised in New Paltz, New

York, Joanna entered the University
of California at Berkeley in 1985 as
a pre-med student. Although she
excelled in the required science
courses, she changed her major to
studio art. Following her graduation
from Berkeley, Joanna attended the
objects conservation program at the
Winterthur Museum. She then did
internship work at the Museum of
Modern Art in New York, the
Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden in Washington, D.C., as well
as at the museum at Winterthur.

After earning her masters degree, she
was hired by the Johnson Atelier
Technical Institute of Sculpture in
Mercerville, New Jersey. Working at
the foundry, she continued to gain
knowledge and understanding about
metal fabrication and the conserva-
tion needs of outdoor sculpture.
Joanna, then, worked at the
Sculpture Conservation Studio in
Los Angeles from 1999 until 2001,
when she opened Silverlake
Conservation in Los Angeles along
with two business partners. One of
the first clients was Ray Nasher. In
2002, Mr. Nasher created the posi-
tion of full-time staff conservator for
the sculpture museum he was build-
ing and offered it to Joanna.

"I have worked with many con-

servators during my career, but I can
honestly say that none has been bet-
ter than Joanna," eulogized Steve
Nash, director of the Nasher
Sculpture Center. This sentiment is
shared by all who had the privilege
to work with and learn from Joanna
Rowntree. Her acute intellect and
uncompromising standards made her
a formidable and sometimes intimi-
dating colleague or supervisor. Her
sharp wit and infectious laugh made
her a joy to know.

She is survived by her parents,

Paul and Caroline Rowntree, her sis-
ter Amy Darragh, her niece and
nephew and many, many friends. A
memorial fund in honor of Joanna
will be set up at the Winterthur/
University of Delaware Program in
Art Conservation. If you'd like to
contribute, please make out checks
to "University of Delaware" with
WUDPAC/Joanna Rowntree in the
memo line, and send to:

Attn: Debbie Hess Norris
WUDPAC
303 Old College
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716-2515

--Amy Green

Silverlake Conservation

(323) 669-8229

amygreen@mindspring.com

Allied Organizations

Call for Nominations

Heritage Preservation and the

College Art Association invite nomi-
nations for their joint 2007 Award for
Distinction in Scholarship and
Conservation. This award recognizes
outstanding contributions by one or
more persons who, individually or
jointly, have enhanced understanding
of art through the application of
knowledge and experience in conser-
vation, art history, and art.

Past winners of the award

include, in 2006, Don Kalec and Jim
Thorpe for their work on the restora-
tion of the Frank Lloyd Wright home
and studio; in 2005, film preservation-
ist Paolo Cherchi Usai; in 2004, Carol
Mancusi-Ungaro, founding director of
the Center for the Technical Study of
Modern Art; and in 2003, Ernst van
de Wetering for his book Rembrandt:
The Painter at Work.

Nominations for the 2007

Awards must be received by August
31, 2006, at the CAA, 275 Seventh
Avenue, New York, NY 10001,
Attention: Susan DeSeyn. Detailed
information on the requirements for
nominations is available at
http://www.collegeart.org/
awards/info-heritage.html.

Become a CAP Assessor!

The Conservation Assessment

Program (CAP) is a technical assis-
tance program administered by
Heritage Preservation and supported
through a cooperative agreement with
the Institute of Museum and Library
Services. The program is seeking qual-
ified conservators to conduct general
assessments of small to mid-sized
museums. We are particularly interest-
ed in recruiting conservators working
in the Southeast, Mountain-Plains,
and Western regions of the United
States.

CAP is geared to help small to

mid-sized museums; applications are
non-competitive and accepted on a
first come first-served basis. The pro-
gram provides eligible museums with
a general conservation survey and
covers the costs associated with a site
visit and assessment report by a con-
servator approved as a CAP assessor.

The number and geographic locations
of participating museums vary from
year to year. To assist museums in
finding qualified professionals to con-
duct assessments, Heritage
Preservation provides participating
museums with the names of approved
CAP assessors in their region.
Museums located in historic struc-
tures have assessments conducted by
both a conservator and a historic
preservation architect. As the preserva-
tion needs of an historic structure and
the collections are interrelated, this
collaboration is vital to the assess-
ment's success.

The goal of the CAP assessment

is to give the museum a basis on
which to form plans and policies for
the long-term care and preservation
of its collections.

To be approved as a CAP

Assessor, conservators must have evi-
dence of conservation/preservation
training, at least five years of experi-
ence in the field, and experience con-
ducting general conservation assess-
ments (a broad study of museum poli-
cies, procedures, and conditions which
relate to and affect collections care).

If you are interested in becoming

a CAP assessor, please e-mail
cap@heritagepreservation.org or call
(202) 233-0800. For more informa-
tion on CAP, visit www.heritagep-
reservation.org.

The 2007 CAP application will

be mailed on October 6 2006.
Applications will be accepted on a
first-come, first-served basis until the
postmark deadline of December 1,
2006. The CAP office will be market-
ing the program throughout 2006,
with the majority of our marketing
efforts taking place during the sum-
mer.

If you know of an institution