Volume 10, Number 5
Oct 1986

People

• Linda Fagen, formerly Assistant Conservator at the Minnesota Historical Society, was recently appointed Archives and Manuscripts Conservator in the Marriott Library of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
• Gary Frost has concluded a five-year term as book conservation instructor in the library and archives conservation program at Columbia University. He has donated 43 models of historic binding structures to the program.
• Susan Barger has accepted a post as Research Associate in the Materials Science Department of Johns Hopkins University.
• Paul Perrot was elected president of the ICCROM Council by unanimous vote last May. (ICCROM also has a General Assembly, of which the president is A. C. da Silva Telles of Brazil.)
• Esther Boyd-Alkalay will leave the National Maritime Museum in Middlesex at the end of November for Israel. Her new address there will be Rehov Rainess 17, 53460 Givataim.
• Silvia Rennie has a new address, effective about November 1: 126 N. Spooner, Madison, WI 53705. She also has a one-woman exhibition in the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Rare Book Room, until mid-November.
• Scott Kellar is now employed by Northwestern University Library as Book Conservator/Head of Conservation Treatments, in the newly constructed conservation lab.
• Linda Overman, Documents Conservator at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, just concluded a term as President of the Society of Mississippi Archivists.
• Mark Esser has accepted the position of instructor of the bookbinding course at the North Bennet Street School in Boston.
• Lynette Van Wagoner (Vaughn L. V. W. Terpack) has left the Library of Congress Conservation Office. She owns and operates Miscellanea, Inc., a business devoted to book conservation, restoration and repair.
• James K. Wellvang, formerly of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica Campus, took up new duties August 1 as head of the Conservation and Preservation Department at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a graduate of the Columbia program and a native of Minnesota.