Volume 19, Number 8
Dec 1995

People

• Lois Olcott Price has been awarded the 1996 Kress Conservation Publication Fellowship, which will let her take time from her professional obligations as conservator of library collections at Winterthur Museum to prepare a book-length manuscript entitled "Fabrication and Preservation of American Architectural Drawings Created Prior to 1930."
• Ron Pushka, Associate Director of Physical Plant at the Art Institute of Chicago, is the new editor of Papyrus, the occasional newsletter of the International Association of Museum Facility Administrators. His e-mail address is RPUSCHKA@artic.edu, and he likes to hear from people who are caring for collections.
• Steven D. Smith joined AMIGOS as a preservation Service Field Services Officer. He will develop and teach preservation training courses, perform site surveys and provide preservation reference information. He graduated in 1995 from the PCS program (preservation track) at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Martha Kearsley will begin work March 5th at Northwestern University Library, filling the recent Conservation Technician opening. Martha acquired a certificate in Bookbinding from North Bennet Street School in Boston and was a student of both Mark Esser and Sally Key. During the past year she has been at Harvard working on the architectural plans and drawings of H.H. Richardson. She can be contacted at 847/491-8892.
• Robert Futernick and his colleagues moved back into their quarters at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco last August. The address is Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118. The telephone and fax are new: 415/750-7691, fax 750-3680.