Smithsonian National Associate Regional Events Program. Contributing Membership Office Search this
Extent:
2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Brochures
Clippings
Manuscripts
Drawings
Black-and-white photographs
Color photographs
Date:
circa 1976-1991
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of records that document the Contributing Membership activities of the Smithsonian National Associate Program. Materials include special events
records highlighting activities relating to yearly fund raising and consist of invitations, brochures, appeal materials, and numerous photographs of different promotional
events. Some photographs feature S. Dillon Ripley while he was still Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian National Associate Regional Events Program Search this
Extent:
11.5 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Brochures
Date:
circa 1975-1986
Descriptive Entry:
This record unit consists of SNAP administrative records that document program activities. The records include correspondence and memoranda with Smithsonian Institution
offices and bureaus, corporations, members, and grant foundations; annual appeals, promotional material, bequests, accounting summaries, and special events files of the Contributing
Membership Program; course curricula and publicity information of the Lecture and Seminar Program; operations manual and reports of the Regional Events Program; and brochures
of the Selected Studies Program.
Historical Note:
The Smithsonian National Associates Program (SNAP) was established in 1970 in conjunction with Smithsonian magazine. Through Smithsonian magazine, and
in cooperation with other Smithsonian Institution bureaus, SNAP provides educational and cultural activities for contributing members throughout the nation and around the
world, in order to "increase their awareness of the Institution and encourage support for its work."
In 1975, Robert H. Angle was appointed general manager of SNAP. The following year SNAP was composed of three units: the Regional Associates Program, the Contributing Membership
Program, and the Associates Travel Program, each offering benefits directed toward increasing membership interaction with the Smithsonian. Regional Associates was renamed
the Regional Events Program in 1978. Also that year a Selected Studies Program was established, and Angle's title was changed to director. Angle served in this capacity until
Jacqueline Austin, a program director of the Associates Travel Program, replaced him in 1982. The Regional Events Program eventually merged with Selected Studies, in 1985,
to form the Lecture and Seminar Program.
Staff of SNAP has included Robert H. Angle, general manager, 1975-1977, and director, 1978-1981; Jacqueline Austin, program manager of Associates Travel, 1977-1981, and
director, 1982- ; Joseph Carper, assistant director, 1985- ; Charlene James-Duguid, program coordinator of Regional Associates, 1976-1977, program manager of Regional Events,
1978-1983, and program manager of Lectures and Seminars, 1984- ; Jessie A. Brinkley, program assistant, 1976-1977, program coordinator, 1978, and program manager of Contributing
Membership, 1979-1981; Fern Segerlind, program manager of Contributing Membership, 1986- ; Janet Fesler, program manager of Contributing Membership, 1982-1985; Nancy Starr,
program manager of Selected Studies, 1978-1983, program assistant for Lectures and Seminars, 1984; Abby Whitenack, administrative coordinator, 1981, and program analyst, 1982-1983;
and Prudence Clendenning, program coordinator of Associates Travel, 1976-1977, deputy program manager, 1978-1981, and program manager, 1982- .
Smithsonian National Associate Regional Events Program Search this
Extent:
4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Brochures
Clippings
Manuscripts
Date:
1971-1985
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of tour arrangements reports; trip reports; general correspondence from and accounts of Smithsonian National Associates Program members; correspondence
and information on foreign tours; annual and audit reports; travel brochures; and newspaper clippings.
Smithsonian National Associate Regional Events Program Search this
Extent:
4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Books
Brochures
Clippings
Manuscripts
Date:
1971-1986
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of travel vouchers and charts, tour reports, foreign study tour information and Associates Travel Program reports. Also included are fiscal
year reports, budget proposals, audit and annual reports. There is also Smithsonian National Associates Program (SNAP) meeting minutes; newspaper clippings; correspondence
from Smithsonian Institution representatives on the foreign study tours; brochures; pamphlets; and membership drive information, including correspondence from SNAP members.
These records reflect the growing scope and complexity of the Smithsonian during Ripley's tenure. They document the Smithsonian's changing administrative structure;
growing relationships with universities, foundations, and other external groups; efforts to attract more government support for the Smithsonian; pursuit of new initiatives
and programs; and the regular administrative activities of the Institution. The records for this period document the opening of the National Museum of History and Technology
(now the National Museum of American History); creation of the Office of Academic Studies and the Office of Smithsonian Symposia and Seminars; founding of the Smithsonian
Resident Associate Program; establishment of the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies; opening of east and west wings of the National Museum of Natural History;
opening of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum; beginning of the Festival of American Folklife; opening of the National Portrait Gallery; establishment of the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars; formation of the Smithsonian National Associates Program; and the opening of the Renwick Gallery.
Historical Note:
In 1964 S. Dillon Ripley, formerly a Professor of Biology at Yale University and Director of its Peabody Museum of Natural History, succeeded Leonard Carmichael as
eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Exhibits Central Search this
Extent:
9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Books
Brochures
Clippings
Manuscripts
Drawings
Black-and-white photographs
Date:
circa 1978-1990
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of records that document the planning and creation of exhibits produced by the Office of Exhibits Central (OEC) for various Smithsonian Institution
bureaus and divisions. About half the material deals with Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) exhibits, the remainder with exhibits prepared for the
Smithsonian National Associates Program and other Smithsonian clients.
