Volume 10, Number 6
Dec 1986

People

• Abigail Quandt will continue her conservation work on manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery for another year on an NEH grant.
• The Columbia University conservation interns for this year are: Rosemary Fallon, who will be interning at the Library of Congress in the Book Section; Hilary Kaplan, at the Humanities Research Center in Austin; Susan Lunas, at UC-Berkeley; and Nary Pound, with Nicholas Pickwoad, private conservator and Advisor on Book Conservation to the National Trust, in England.
• Lisa Mibach, formerly Chief Conservator for the Provincial Museum of Alberta, has accepted the position of Director of the Intermuseum Conservation Laboratory in Oberlin, Ohio.
• John Perkins, formerly of Parks Canada Historic Resource Conservation in Halifax, is now working with the Getty Conservation Institute in California.
• Shannon Zachary started working with Marilyn Weidner in November on an NMA grant to develop techniques using Ms. Weidner new moisture chamber/suction table/ultrasonic humidifier/air filter system.
• Vicky Adamitis is the new preservation officer at Stanford University.
• Annagret Hunter-Elsenbach won the Canadian Competition for the Germaine de Coster International Prize contest for designer binders and represented Canada at the International Contest and Exhibition in Paris recently.
• Kathy Orlenko began work in September at the Walters Art Gallery on an NEA-funded project to rehouse about 600 bound volumes in the manuscript collection.