Volume 23, Number 7
1999

People

• Donia Conn, book and paper conservator, has joined the permanent staff at the Westlake Conservators, Ltd., in Skaneateles, NY. Donia holds a Master of Library & Information Science degree with an advanced certificate in conservation from the University of Texas at Austin. She interned at Trinity College, Dublin. She can be reached at <bookconservator@yahoo.com>.
• Toby Murray, Preservation Officer of Tulsa University for 16 years, has accepted a job as Preservation/Conservation Librarian for the James R. Dickinson Library at the University of Las Vegas, NV.
• Karen Tidwell has resumed use of her prior name of Karen Dabney. She can still be reached at the Commonwealth Conservation Center in Harrisburg, PA, 717/787-2292.
• Beth Doyle is the new Conservator for Special Projects in the Preservation Center at Harvard. Beth's new duties include conducting condition assessments in three major collections: a random-sample survey of the general research collections in the Fine Arts Library; a comprehensive survey of rare materials in the Ernst Mayr Library; and a comprehensive survey of videotapes held in the Harvard University Library. She is also working half time on the treatment of rare and unique materials in collections throughout the Harvard College Library. She has a BA in Photography from the University of Dayton, and an MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin.
• William T. Murphy, of the National Archives and Records Administration, recently won AMIA's Silver Light Award, the organization's highest recognition for achievement in the field of moving image archives. He will retire this year from a long and distinguished career, though he will continue his work as a leading advocate of nonfiction film and videotape preservation. (For more information, see the AMIA Newsletter, #47, p. 10-11.)
• Elissa O'Loughlin has left the National Archives and is now a paper conservator at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.
• Irene Brückle was made an associate professor (paper conservation) in the Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State College in September 1999. She came to the program in 1991 as a temporary replacement for Cathleen Baker, who was on sabbatical at the time. Irene had extensive training in bookbinding, book and paper conservation and art on paper in Germany and this country. She has been improving and expanding the educational opportunities for students at Buffalo, introducing video-teleconference techniques to present lectures and demonstrations by photograph conservator Paul Messier, has set up bookbinding workshops to give the students practical experience in the craft, and has published numerous papers and spoken often before general as well as professional audiences. She was made a Fellow of AIC in October 1999. [Condensed from the report by Tom Edmondson in AIC News, March 2000.]
• Martha Morales, the first executive secretary of the American Institute for Conservation, died on October 6, 1999, of Lou Gehrig's disease. She set up the national office and worked devotedly with the growing organization for eight years (1976-1984). One of her contributions to the members of the organization was the initiative she took in the late 1970s to find a little room at the AIC annual conference hotel where about 20 book and paper conservators could meet informally without charge and describe their recent work. The following year, the group became AIC's first formal subdivision, or special interest group. She married Donald Sebera, conservation scientist and AIC fellow, a few years ago. The November 1999 AIC News has an obituary of her by James Bernstein, Barbara Appelbaum and Paul Himmelstein on p. 23.