Volume 6, Number 4
Aug 1982

People

• Howard Lowell has a multiple job in Oklahoma City administering the Oklahoma Resources Branch of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. His duties include administering the State Archives Program, the State Records Management Program, and the Oklahoma Publications Clearinghouse.
• Robert Espinosa, formerly of the Library of Congress Restoration Office, is now Library Conservator at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah.
• Michelle Gewirtz has left her position as associate conservator at the CCAHA in Philadelphia to open a paper conservation laboratory in New York City.
• Theresa Fairbanks is the paper conservator at the Yale Center for British Art.
• Cathy Asher has reverted to use of her maiden name, Atwood.
• Joanna Mankowski is now at the Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins as a paper conservator.
• Victor Hansen, former head of Winterthur Museum's analytical laboratory, died in January of a heart attack at the age of 77. In September 1979, at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, he described Winterthur's "conservator's dream machine" for rapid nondestructive analysis of elements, by use of energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy.
• Robert du Meer has taken a job as paper conservator at the American Center for Art & Antiquities, New York City.
• Hanna Sczcepanowska, who received her MA in conservation from Nicolai Kopernik University, Torun, Poland, began work in June at the Center for Conservation of Artistic and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia.
• Deborah O. Mayer, a Winterthur graduate, will begin at CCAHA in September.