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[[underlined]]Memorial to Miss Hanks [[/underlined]]

The Chancellor called the meeting to order noting with sadness the recent death of Miss Nancy Hanks, Citizen Regent of the District of Columbia. The Regents adopted the following Memorial to Miss Hanks and requested that it be prepared in calligraphy for presentation:

MEMORIAL TO MISS HANKS

In May 1976, the Smithsonian Institution presented its highest award, the Smithson Medal, to Nancy Hanks, with the following citation:

Nancy Hanks, what a lady of the arts you are, from your work in Durham to New York to Washington, you have been an effective and enthusiastic pilot in state and national efforts to strengthen support for cultural institutions and artists. As the tireless Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, you have shown yourself endowed with a rare talent for raising riches for the arts in America from both public and private sources. Your greatest accomplishment may well be that you have demonstrated that patronage of the arts is a legitimate, necessary and continuing function of the federal establishment. The Smithsonian delights in honoring you with our Smithson Medal and in so doing, honoring ourselves for this association.

Six years later, in recognition of her continuing leadership in the world of culture, and of her extraordinary devotion to the work of this Institution, the Board of Regents nominated Miss Hanks for appointment as a Regent of the Smithsonian and was gratified when this nomination was approved by Congress and the President.

Nancy Hanks' untimely death has taken from us one of our most effective and beloved colleagues. Therefore, be it

RESOLVED that the Members of the Board of Regents express their deep regret at the loss suffered by the Institution because of the death of Nancy Hanks on January 7, 1983, recalling her splendid contributions to the arts and the Smithsonian Institution.