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Acting Assistant Secretary for History and Art [[/underlined]]. Dr. John Reinhardt, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and Director of the International Communication Agency, and presently Acting Director of the National Museum of African Art, will become Acting Assistant Secretary for History and Art upon the departure of Charles Blitzer, who will be assuming the presidency and directorship of the National Humanities Center at the end of January.

[[underlined]] National Museum of African Art [[/underlined]]. Taking over for Dr. Reinhardt at the National Museum of African Art will be Mrs. Sylvia Williams, presently Curator of African, Oceanic and Primitive Art at the Brooklyn Museum.  Mrs. Williams will assume the directorship of African Art on February 1, and will be joined in due course by Dr. Roy Sieber of Indiana University as Associate Director.

[[underlined]] Archives of American Art [[/underlined]].  In a third development, Mr. William Woolfenden, long-time Director of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, has announced his intention to retire at the end of June 1983.  A search committee has been appointed and charged with seeking out and recommending his successor.  Appointed to the search committee are Gilbert H. Kinney, member of the Archives' Board of Trustees; Alan Fern, Director of the National Portrait Gallery; Jan Muhlert, Director of the Amon Carter Museum; Garnett McCoy, deputy-director of the Archives of American Art; John Howatt, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Eloise Spaeth, Chairman of the Archives' Board of Trustees; and Charles Blitzer (to be succeeded by John Reinhardt) of the Assistant Secretary's office.  It is anticipated that the search committee will conclude its work by late spring.