Volume 12, Number 5
Jul 1988

People

• Nancy Heugh, who recently became a fellow of the AIC, was married to Tom Edmondson on May 7.
• Evelyn Frangakis will be enrolling in the Preservation Administrator Program at Columbia University in September, full time.
• Veronica (Ronnie) Cunningham is leaving her position as Director of Microfilming and Photoduplication Services at NEDCC, and will also be a full-time student in the Preservation Administrator Program at Columbia University in the fall.
• Susan Barger is now an associate research professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering.
• Margaret Lecky, who has taught hundreds of bookbinding students in her classes at UCLA, and was a founding member of the Western Association for Art Conservation, the Southern California Designer Craftsmen, and Hand Bookbinders of California, died on April 21, 1988. [From the May WAAC Newsletter]
• Jan Paris has accepted the position of Conservator for Special Collections at the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her telephone number is 919/962-1143.
• Karen Garlick has accepted the position of Senior Conservator at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC.
• Pamela Barrios has received the first award made by the Carolyn Horton Fund, administered by the FAIC. It was $245 toward her expenses for the AIC meeting in New Orleans.
• Richard-Gabriel Rummonds resigned on May 26 as director of the Institute for the Book Arts and of the M.F.A. in the Book Arts Program in the Graduate School of Library Service at the University of Alabama. He will return full time to his personal press Ex Ophidia, successor to the Plain Wrapper Press (P0 Box 27, Cottondale, AL 35453, 205/556-2968).
• Henry Pelham Burn has written a murder mystery, White is the Color of Death, under the pen name of J. N. Catanach. For information write The Countryman Press, Maxham Meadow, P.O. Box 175, Woodstock, VT 05091-0175. (It is described as a "Foul Play Press Book.")
• Glen Ruzicka left Johns Hopkins at the end of June and will begin a new job as Chief Conservator at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia.
• Peter Verheyen has recently moved to Chicago to take a job as Assistant Conservator at the Monastery Hill Bindery, where he will be working under the supervision of rare book conservator Heinke Pensky-Adam. His new telephone number is 312/328-4048.
• At the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Archives and Records Preservation:
  • Bruce Shaw is the new Director of the division of Archives and Records Preservation.
  • Chris Mathias is now the Head of Conservation.
  • Rhonda Massie is a Conservator with the same institution.