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[[underlined]]Personnel[[/underlined]]

[[underlined]]Archives of American Art[[/underlined]]


Susan A. Hamilton, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of History and Art, has been selected for the new position of Deputy Director of the Archives of American Art, effective September, 1982.  Mrs. Hamilton has been with the Smithsonian since 1969 when she joined the Institution as Director of the Resident Associates Program, a post she held for three years.  She then served a five-year tenure as the SI Bicentennial Coordinator.

At the Archives, Mrs. Hamilton will work closely with the Director, William E. Woolfenden, in program planning and administration of the organization.  The Archives of American Art, which has major collecting centers in San Francisco, Detroit, Washington, D.C., New York City, and Boston, is dedicated to assembling and preserving documentary evidence of the history of the visual arts in the United States for use by scholars.

[[underlined]]National Air and Space Museum[[/underlined]]

Noel Hinners resigned from the directorship of the National Air and Space Museum on June 12, 1982 to assume the directorship of the Goddard Space Flight Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.  A search committee has been appointed to conduct a search for a new director.  The search is expected to be completed by the end of this year.  In the interim, Walter Boyne, Assistant Director of the Museum, has been designated as Acting Director.

[[underlined]]National Museum of African Art[[/underlined]]

As noted in the July [[underlined]]Newsletter to the Regents[[/underlined]], Warren RObbins, Director of the National Museum of African Art, stepped down from the directorship to become Senior Scholar and Founding Director Emeritus at the Museum effective