Volume 11, Number 2
Mar 1987

People

• John Townsend will begin a new job with the Conservation/Preservation Programs in the New York State Division of Library Development on March 19. His address will be: Division of Library Development, Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY 12230.
• Laura Wait completed a four-seek internship with Don Etherington at HRHRC during the fall of 1986. She concentrated on nonadhesive conservation binding.
• Jan Merrill-Oldham is the subject of a two-page biography by Sally Grauer in the December New Library Scene.
• Ken Harris has been named as Director of the Preservation Policy and Services Division at the National Archives. The Preservation Division includes the Document Conservation Branch and a new Special Media Preservation Branch (for preservation and reproduction of still photographs, motion pictures and sound recordings).
• Alan Calmes, NARA Preservation Officer, has been detailed to head the Life Cycle Systems Coordination Staff.
• Günter Brannahl, a leader in paper conservation in Germany, died in July 1986 at the age of 45.
• Virginia Buchan is Book Conservator at Teacher's College, Columbia University.
• Patrick Ravines is now at P.O. Box 155, Haifa, Israel 31001.
• Roger Powell is still at work as he celebrates his 91st birthday this year.
• Dutch bookbinder Janos Szirmai has won the Prix Germaine de Coster, an international prize awarded to the best binding from 20 countries, and administered by the Bibliotheque Nationale.
• · Charles Long, who established the Book Conservation Center at the New York Botanical Garden Library, died in August 1986.
• Mildred O'Connell is now Assistant Development Officer at the Boston Public Library.
• Leslie Kruth has moved to Washington, D.C. because her husband Hal has accepted a job as Counsel to the Head of the International Trade Commission. Her forwarding address is USITC, c/o Hal Kruth, 701 E St., NW, Washington, DC 20436.
• Carolyn Clark Morrow has married and is now Carolyn Morrow Manns.
• Martha Little has moved to Santa Fe to work privately as a book conservator. Her studio is at 826 Camino del Monte Rey, #A4, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505/988-1174).
• Sam Ellenport will be moving the Harcourt Bindery to a new location in April: 51 Melcher St., Boston, MA 02210 (same phone).