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[[underlined]] Report on the National Associates Board Meeting [[/underlined]]

Mr. Ripley reported that the National Board of the Smithsonian Associates held its second "off-campus" spring meeting in Minneapolis, Friday and Saturday, April 22-23. The meeting gave members an opportunity to participate in one of the increasingly popular and successful Associates Regional Programs. Fourteen members, including Regent and Associates Board founder Thomas J. Watson, Jr., attended, many with spouses.

The central focus of the agenda was Smithsonian "Outreach" activities, including the Associates Regional Program, the slide-sleeve and slide-cassette development program (funded partially by a grant from the Merrill Trust by Board member Doris Magowan), the Telecommunications Center and "Smithsonian World" Public Broadcast Series, [[underlined]] Smithsonian [[/underlined]] Magazine, SITES, the James Smithson Society, and the GAO Report and SI financial picture.

In addition, the Board unanimously adopted its Nominating Committee Report, and membership invitations will be extended to Mrs. Jackson Burke (St. Paul) and Messrs. William T. Coleman, Jr. (Philadelphia), Gaylord Donnelly (Chicago), James M. Kemper, Jr. (Kansas City), and Vernon F. Taylor, Jr. (Denver).

Of particular and poignant importance is the fact that this meeting marks the completion of the terms of the nine original members of the Board. These nine members -- Messrs. Richard Cooley, Joseph Cullman, Leonard Firestone, Alfred Glassell,