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Cracow Synagogue Conservation: First Phase Completed

Tempel Synagogue, Cracow, Poland. View from the west, c. 1900.

\ In January WMF completed the first invited the JHC to help restore the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, Samuel phase of restoration of the Tempel Tempel in I992, this flagship project H. Kress Foundation, Cohen Chari­ Synagogue in Cracow, a project has captured the attention of the table Trust and International Re­ launched and financed by the Jewish Jewish community abroad, preserva­ search and Exchanges Board (IREX). Heritage Council (JHC). An expert tionists in Poland and throughout the team of Polish architects and engi­ world, and the Polish government. WMF and the Jewish Heritage Council neers completely replaced the Donors to WMF's Jewish Heritage building's standing seam metal roof Council have been the major catalyst mourn the passing on March 25,1995 and its related water handling system. in launching this project. A Project of Mr. Jacob Greenberg, and extend heartfelt condolences to Mrs. Joyce Z. John Stubbs, WMF Program Director, Identification Grant from The Getty Greenberg. The generosity of the traveled to Cracow in February to Grant Program was instrumental in Greenbergs since the inception of the review the work. Stubbs reported, getting the project off the ground. "The finely-crafted new roof is a Now, utilities services of the city of Tempel project has been crucial to its success. distinct improvement on the old one; Cracow will provide 60% of the revisions to critical design elements funding for the next phase. In addi­ will improve performance of the roof, tion, the Civic Monuments Associa­ and ensure easier maintenance of the tion of Cracow has given funds for building in the future. The quality of the restoration of the Tempel's facade, the work is superb." The project is to begin in April I 995. In a happy currently on schedule-and under reversal of fortune, WMF has now budget. Stubbs also met with WMF's been challenged to match these Polish restoration team to plan the pledges by raising $91,000 in order to next phase-conservation of the complete this phase of work-and sumptuous interior, replacement of begin the restoration of the interior. the century-old coal burning heating Once the conservation of this system, installation of a new electrical magnificent synagogue is completed, system and consolidation of the the Tempel will be used for worship foundations of the aisles. by its congregation and visitors to Cracow's Tempel Synagogue is the Cracow, and by international cultural only surviving I9th-century syna­ organizations as a performance hall gogue in Poland and one of the few and gathering space. synagogues from which we can today Major supporters of the first phase

learn and celebrate the richness of of the Tempel Synagogue restoration Inspection of the first phase of the Tempel Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Since project are The Getty Grant Program, Synagogue restoration, roofing contractor the Cracow Jewish Community Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg, The J- Zawislak (left) and architect]. Smolski. NEWS

Cambodia Following the charrette, the Southern Conference on Lavas and Volcanic At Preah Khan, a team of seven Moravia Heritage Foundation was Tuffs, organized by WMF with other experts is working with 50 local established under Czech law and with international (ICCROM) and national workers under the supervision of a board of Czech and international (DIBAM and CONAF) institutions. Project Manager john Sanday, who trustees. The Foundation, to be Due to the reconstruction of the now spends an average of two weeks headquartered at Valtice, will manage nearby ahu, (ceremonial altar) per month at the site. The field the Lednice-Valtice cultural land­ currently in progress, the site receives mission begnn in November I994 and scape. WMF is awarding a reimburs­ more visitors and faces higher risk running through April I99 5 will carry able grant to the Foundation, to from pedestrian traffic. out work in fouf areas within the support start-up costs. temple complex: restoration of a At WMF's new interpretation center at Preah second portico at the East Gopura, Khan, members of a group of 23 sponsors of WMF's Angkor program who visited Angkor in ICCROM has just released Lavas and structural stabilization in the Han of January. The structure was designed by Volcanic Tuffs, the published proceed­ Dancers, repair to the east side of Cambodian architecture student Lek Sareth. ings of the I990 conference. Dr. A. Enclosure Wall IV and conservation Elena Charola, WMF's Easter Island of two of the 72 stone garudas that Lloyd Wright School of Architecture consultant, served as Senior Editor, stand along the outer wall of the at Taliesin West (Scottsdale, AZ). and R. j. Koestler and G. Lombardi temple complex. Sponsoring his scholarship, which will were co-editors. The proceedings, cost $20,000 over two years, is one published with support from The Getty objective ofWMF's "995 Angkor Grant Program, are available at a price program. Working session at the Lednice charrette, from of U.S. $40 from ICCROM-Publica­ left: Mayor Klimovic (Lednice), Mayor Zejda tion Sales Service, Via di San Michele The opening of The Chinese Porcelain (Mikulov) and Mayor Vlasic (Hlohovec), I3, 1-00153 Rome, Italy. Company in New York on October 12, 1995 featured a photographic WMF's project partner, Greenwaysl exhibition on WMF's work at Angkor Zelene Stezky, begins its third season and the contemporary threat posed by this summer as a Putney Student the looting of the Angkor sites. All Travel program site. Up to 20 high proceeds from the sale of the cata­ school juniors and seniors will work logue Ancient Khmer Sculpture, on community service projects in totaling $6,470, have been donated to Moravia. Each student will be paired WMF's Angkor program. WMF wishes with a local Czech student, and will to thank Khalil Rizk and the staff of enjoy a "homestay" with his or her The Chinese Porcelain Company for counterpart for the last weekend of their generous support. the program. Projects will include creating a nature recreation area Czech Republic beside a once-polluted pond in the The I995 Valtice Summer Festival historic town of Telc. For information will take place from july 28-30, I995 please contact Putney Student Travel, Garuda at southeast corner of Enclosure Wall and feature, on the premises of Valtice Hickory Ridge Road, Putney, VT IV, Preah Khan. castle and its grounds,a broad 05346(802) 387-5 88 5. offering of music and dance, with in February, WMF and the Royal artists from the Czech Republic as Easter Island Angkor Foundation (Budapest) well as abroad. Attendance at this Proceeds from the sale by the Chilean convened a two-day roundtable at gala weekend features prominently in park service (CONAF) of the Uncom­ Princeton University to review data two member trips that WMF has mon Guide to Easter Island by Italy collected by NASA during the Octo­ organized. For details, please see Georgia Lee, Ph.D., which were This June, the Associazione Comitato ber I994 mission of the space shuttle \ Activities, page 6. donated to CONAF by WMF, sup­ Italiano WMF celebrates the comple­ Endeavour. Using NASA's SIR-C/X­ ported this recent conservation work tion of an important conservation SAR Earth Imaging Radar, Endeavour A charrette (intensive on-site planning on Easter Island: Stabilization of the treatment of five frescoes by jacopo da scanned the eco-site of Angkor, meeting) focusing on conservation and back wall of Ahu Tahai, which was Pontormo at the Certosa di Galluzzo, imaging three temple complexes economic enhancement at the castle of threatening to collapse. The ahu had just outside Florence. The Comitato selected by WMF and RAF. Interpreta­ Lednice and its environs took place at been restored by Prof. William Italiano also sponsored the conserva­ tion of the data is expected to enhance the castle from August I6-I8, 1994­ Mulloy in I968-70. tion of a remarkable series of 16th­ current archaeological and geographi­ This meeting completed the research Construction of stone walls around century copies of the frescoes, which cal research programs at Angkor. phase for the architectural monuments one of the most important petroglyph were painted in oil on canvas at a The mission data is accessible on the and surrounding landscape park sites in Tongariki including raised reduced scale. The project is part of Internet via the World Wide Web. launched at neighboring Valtice castle, observation points, a project recom­ the series of exhibitions and art con­ Scientific research using radar the site of WMF's 1993 charrette. mended during the I990 international servation efforts throughout Tuscany images of this significant historic site commemorating the sooth anniver­ is expected to present an entirely new sary of the painter's birth this year. research methodology for Angkor. The frescoes, now detached and The published results of the moved from their original locations at roundtable will be presented at a the corners of the Certosa's main meeting of the International Coordi­ cloister, were executed between 1523 nating Committee on the Safeguard­ and 1524. Pontormo may have used ing and Development of the Historic tempera extensively in these works Site of Angkor (ICC). which, together with their exposure to A generous grant from the j. M. the elements, probably brought about Kaplan Fund's Exploration and New their relatively rapid deterioration. Technologies Program made this The copies, believed to date from the event possible. 1580s, have therefore served as important aids in interpreting the A member of the on-site team, damaged originals. Cambodian architecture student Lek Until now, the copies have been Sareth produced the design for an traditionally attributed to jacopo interpretation center at Preah Khan. Chimenti, known as Empoli. Empoli In order to receive an internationally was one of the most representative recognized degree in architecture, Florentine painters of the generation Sareth now hopes to continue his succeeding Pontormo. Yet the current studies abroad. He has been accepted The castle of Lednice from the formal garden, with the greenhouse in foreground. project revealed that Empoli was only into the masters program at the Frank one of several artists involved in the production of the copies of international member committees United Kingdom ebrate the publication of the Survey of Pontormo's famous cycle. In addition, were represented, including two new 1995 marks the centenary celebration Historic Jewish Monuments in the the painstaking and difficult cleaning committees, Venedig Lebt (Austria) of the National Trust in England, Czech Republic. Prepared by Samuel has confirmed not only that the and the Foundation for the Preserva­ Wales and Ireland, an important Gruber and Phyllis Myers of the WMF copies' compositions are remarkably tion of Armenian Culture in Venice. anniversary for international historic Jewish Heritage Council, the report is faithful to the originals, but their Over the past two years, the Private preservation. The National Trust is a the second country-specific survey of coloring as well is much more accu­ Committees have raised and spent recognized prototype for private Jewish sites and structures to be rate than previously thought. close to 3.S billion lire on restoration leadership in saving, restoring and carried out by the JHC in partnership The frescoes, detached from the projects in Venice. The Private presenting to the public the country's with the U.S. Commission for the cloister and restored in the early Committees adopted a resolution treasure-trove of historic architectural Preservation of America's Heritage "9Sos, were first exhibited with the expressing concern for the underesti­ properties. The anniversary culmi­ Abroad. Information on the over 6So oil copies in the Pontormo exhibition mation of the potential problem of nates in a major exhibition of paint­ sites surveyed for the JHC report is in Florence in 19S6. They were then renewed flooding in Venice. This ings from National Trust properties at installed on a database at the United displayed together when the frescoes resolution was sent to the Prime the National Gallery from November States Holocaust Memorial Museum returned to the Certosa. The canvas Minister of Italy, with a covering 22, 1995 - March ro, 1996. Entitled in Washington, D.C., and other public copies were stolen in I973 and were letter from Alvise Zorzi, Chairman of "In Trust for the Nation," the exhibi­ locations. The publication is available recovered the following year, without the Private Committees. This natural tion will focus on the formation of for purchase for $IS (including their stretchers and severely damaged. phenomenon poses a significant threat many of the collections in these great postage and handling) from the U.S. For morc than two decades, the copies to all the conservation efforts that country houses. Commission for the Preservation of have been in storage and virtually were completed after the 1966 flood. America's Heritage Abroad, ISOl inaccessible, to scholars as well as the Since that time, no major action has United States 15th Street, N.W., Suite 1040, public. The Comitato Italiano looks been taken to prevent the recurrence WMF salutes the establishment of Washington, D.C. 2000S. forward to the exhibition of these of such a catastrophe. CORNERSTONES in Santa Fe, NM. At the reception, the Hon. Ronald CORNERSTONES is continuing the S. Lauder, a Vice Chairman of WMF work of the New Mexico Community and Chairman of the JHC, noted that Foundation's award-winning the Czech Republic's deep under­ "Churches: Symbols of Community" standing of the importance ofJewish program, which surveyed older adobe life in the country had made this buildings and, with input from the project possible. He also acknowl­ foremost adobe preservation experts edged the leadership and guidance of in the world, developed standard Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Chairman of treatments. the Commission, without whom these CORNERSTONES works with surveys could not have taken place. economically disadvantaged commu­ nities throughout the state, assisting "The pioneering work done here will them in the preservation of their ha ve an impact even beyond the valued buildings-primarily endan­ borders of the Czech Republic," Mr. gered historic adobe churches. Adobe Lauder stated. "The lessons learned maintenance techniques are easy to from this project, and the methods learn and inexpensive to implement, developed in this work, can be applied and these projects have trained to future work in other countries. members of youth gangs, drop-outs, The surveys provide invalnable unemployed youth and others. information that is simply not avail­ Through partnership rather than able elsewhere, and they encourage In the coming year, the Minnesota Chapter of the Venice Committee will restore the Byzantine patronage, CORNERSTONES strength­ government and private strategies to marble Madonndil1rhe ·Chiirchof the Bragora, ens communities by providing techni­ protect and preserve and endangered important historical documents and is WMF extends its deepest condolences cal assistance, leadership development historic and cultural legacy." pleased to have supported the project to Georgia Bartlett, head of the and training for community members, The Commission and the JHC have to return them to public view with the Minnesota-Venice Committee on the particularly youth, in traditional initiated an inventory and survey of newly conserved originals. passing of her husband, Hubert building practices. In cooperation Jewish sites in Ukraine. WMF's Jewish Bartlett. A memorial fund has been with the Native American Pueblo of Heritage Council is overseeing the The Comitato Italiano has just established in his name, and will Zuni, CORNERSTONES also launched work, which is being organized from announced a major new project, the Stlpport a future WMF restoration and manages a youth training program Kiev. To date, approximately 300 restoration of Maso di Banco's project in Venice. In "994, during in stone masonry. This innovative Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine have important 14th-century fresco cycle in their annual visit to Venice, Mr. and project reopened the Zuni stone been visited. the Bardi di Vernio Chapel of the Mrs. Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. Roland quarries, abandoned for 20 years. church of Santa Croce, depicting the Rasmussen, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank For information please contact: WMF has a unique opportunity to story of the Emperor Constantine and Bonello selected a new conservation Barbara Zook, Executive Director, photograph and document the remain­ Saint Sylvester. Conservation work project for the Minnesota Chapter: CORNERSTONES Community Partner­ ing Jewish sites in Syria. Robert Lyons, will begin in May. Humidity and the the Byzantine marble Madonna in the ships, Box "49, Santa Fe, NM 87 S04­ a Seattle-based photographer, has been infiltration of rain water have pro­ Church of the Bragora. Tel: (SoS) 982-9S2I. commissioned to travel to Syria in duced extensive damage. In addition, April. Generous grants to support this the project will reevaluate extensive Russia effort have been received from The in-painting that dates from a much­ WMF has been asked to assist in Cahnman Foundation and the Samuel criticized restoration carried out in the restoring the Alexander Palace and H. Kress Foundation. Additional late "930S. rendering it accessible to the public. funding will be needed to produce a Considered the major interpreter of Just outside St. Petersburg, the publication and exhibition. Giotto's late style, Maso Di Banco Alexander Palace was the home of the worked on two chapels in Santa last Tsars before their exile to Siberia The photographic exhibition "The Croce that his teacher decorated and eventual execution. Since World Future of Jewish Monuments" was at towards the end of his career. Di War II, it has been inaccessible to the the Pauline Hirsh Gallery of the Banco is regarded as one of the public, while the nearby palaces, Jewish Community Building in Los Community work day at Dona Ana, New Mexico, greatest colorists and most accom­ which together with the Alexander a CORNERSTONES project supported by WMF Angeles from November 1994 ­ plished spatial innovators of his Palace comprise the Museums at in 1990. February 199S. The final venue for generation. Tsarskoe Selo, were thoroughly the exhibition is the Arizona Histori­ restored after the war and are popular Jewish Heritage Council cal Society in Tucson from March 3 ­ The Comitato Italiano is preparing tourist attractions. Executive Director H.E. Ambassador Michael Zantovsky, April 30, 199S. WMF extends special English translations of the two most Bonnie Burnham visited St. Petersburg Ambassador of the Czech Republic to thanks to long-time WMF member recent issues of its newsletter, in July 1994 at the invitation of the the United States, hosted a reception Rachael Anderson for hosting a "Appunto Informativo." Copies will Committee for the Restoration of the at the Czech Embassy in Washington, cocktail reception the evening before be available on request from WMF's Alexander Palace, in cooperation with D.C. on February 7, "99S, to cel- the Arizona opening. New York office after April 30, 1995. the Tsarskoe Selo museums and the City of St. Petersburg. Program The und annual meeting of the Director John Stubbs and seven U.S. Private Committees for the Safeguard­ experts returned on behalf of WMF to ing of Venice took place at the Unesco the site in February 199S to develop a Liaison Office on October 6-7, 1994. preliminary conservation plan. Twenty-three of the twenty-four REMEMBERING OUR FOUNDER

(April 26, I909 - November 22, I994)

olonel James A. Gray, the where he liked to end a day on the Founder of the International terrace. Like most individuals em­ Fund for Monuments (today barked on a brave new venture, he the World Monuments Fund), had great energy, an enormous edied in Mendocino, California on capacity for hard work, and little November 22, 1994 at the age of 85. patience with incompetence or lack of Those of us who knew him, especially commitment. His gifts attracted the the many friends and supporters who like-minded. visited Venice during the 1970S, retain Col. Gray led the International vivid memories of Col. Gray and his Fund for Monuments for twenty devotion to restoring the architectural years, from 1965 to 1985, initially and artistic heritage of the past. traveling from an office in New York The genesis of the future World and later from Washington D.C., to Monuments Fund was the still­ visit sites and to court donors. Venice unsettled debate regarding the future remained the primary focus, but there of the leaning tower of Pisa. The year were also other Italian projects, such was 1965, and Col. Gray, retired and as the facade of San Petronio in living in Italy following a distin­ Bologna and the church of the guished career with United States Madonna del Loreto in Spoleto. In Army, became intrigued with the Spain, the IFM restored the gothic problem. In a typical American Col. James A. Gray receiving the key to the city of Venice and the title Cavaliere di San Marco from choir stalls in the cathedral at Oviedo, fashion, he hoped to help. Approaches then Mayor Mario Riga, March 23, 1982. the great treasure hall of the Ochavo to various international authorities the International Fund for Monu­ staircase to find him and the office in the cathedral of Toledo, and the revealed the lack of a private sector ments a more specific focus and manager-Diana Kaley, or later convent of La Coria in Trujillo. North group dedicated to preserving great greater prominence. Responding to Connie Rusconi-hard at work. As of the Alps, in the British Isles, a architecture. The result was a small the UNESCO appeal, Col. Gray often as not, he would be pecking at country house in Ireland and a not-for-profit organization-initially, toured the United States, organizing an old electric typewriter, composing famous English model of the Battle of Jim Gray and a few concerned chapters of the IFM Venice Commit­ a newsletter of contagious enthusiasm Waterloo joined IFM's expanding list. friends-with the grand name of the tee to undertake the restoration of and uncorrected spelling. Inevitably, the strain of the pace International Fund for Monuments. precious Venetian monuments. Jim Gray was a tall man with a began to tell. In the early 1980s, Boston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, distinctive shock of strawberry blond and Washington all adopted projects, hair and a scar on his upper lip from as did a number of American founda­ an early bout with cancer. He carried tions and concerned individuals. From himself with military bearing, and the Tintorettos in the Scuola Grande organized his life with admirable di San Rocco to the Tiepolos in the efficiency. For a time he kept a small Pieta, from San Pietro di Castello to apartment in Venice near the church Santa Maria del Giglio, from the of the Frari, to save on hotel bills and staircase of the Ducal Palace to the to have a change of clothes at hand Scala Bovolo, and for dozens of other for his constant comings and goings. sites, the Colonel marshalled the Although he had no background in Col. Gray visited Easter Island in the early generosity of private citizens on behalf the history of art, he took great pride Col. Gray (second from left) observes conserva­ 1970$. Thanks to the efforts of Vice Chairman of the treasures of Venice. Having in the work of the International Fund tion work in progress at the Scuola San H. Peter Stern, support from the Ralph E. rescued the Senoia Grande di San for Monuments, and deep personal Giovanni Evangalista, the organization's first Ogden Foundation enabled the organization to Giovanni Evangelista from rising satisfaction in understanding the project inVeilice following the 1966 flood. complete projects at three major sites between waters, he established an office there technical side of the restoration 1973 and 1978. WMF remains involved in conservation activities on the island. for IFM in a tiny room with beautiful p'rocess. He was as much at home Gray suffered an eye injury that eighteenth-century stuccos. Visitors with the workers on a job site as with severely affected his vision and The first project of the nascent IFM would climb the elegant Coducci the clientele of the Gritti Palace Hotel, him to recognize the physical was not in Italy at all, but in the tions of a man in his seventies­ southern wilderness of Ethiopia at the although he continued to drive remarkable nth-century rock-hewn he almost rolled off a hillside churches of Lalibela. Col. Gray Bergamo. At length, the decisio'n organized a team of Italians to join move to California led to his him in making the arduous journey by ment from the IFM, and a muleback to help restore these Trustees accepted the ch"ll,:ng,e intricate memorials to the spread of carry his work forward. the Christian faith. Another early Col. Gray's last years were project involved work on the mysteri­ the northern coast of his native ous colossal sculptures, or moai, of California, not far from San Easter Island, one of which he cisco, where his life's brought to New York to stand before menced in 1909. Over the the Seagram Building in a mute appeal legacy is ours to cherish. for funds. Far afield in another direction was the wood-carved temple Marilyn Perry complex of Gokarna in the Chairman Kathmandu Valley. No matter how distant, Jim Gray regularly visited every IFM project to observe the quality of the work in progress. The late Mrs. Virginia Steele Scott {second from left}, a major benefactor of the restoration of San The flood in Venice in 1966 gave Pietro di Castello in Venice, on a site visit with Col. Gray (center) in the early 1970$. • InsideWMF

John Sanday visit he pursued us around the temple brandishing a trident. We referred the As WMF celebrates 30 years of matter to the authorities who were international preservation, it is only apparently powerless because ofthe fitting to profile in this issue conserva­ Yogi's contacts in 'high places' but he tion architect John Sanday, a member was calmed and promised no further of the extended WMF family since disturbances. I nevertheless decided to 1978. Sanday is currently Project keep out ofthe way but sent my Manager for WMF's program at Preah photographer to take documentary Khan, Angkor. photos. The yogi attacked him with After completing an architecture an ax~ and it was only because he degree at Bristol and post-graduate defended himselfwith his tripod that work in architectural conservation in the photographer avoided serious London, Sanday worked from 1967­ injury. The authorities took the hint 1972 for Donald Insall & Associates, and the Yogi has been removed. one of England's premiere architec­ Apparently in the eyes ofthe villagers, tural conservation firms. He was who were greatly relieved to see him invited to Nepal by UNESCO in 1972 go, I have superseded him. Since his to advise the restoration of the Old removal work has been going apace. Royal Palace in Kathmandu. This effort established conservation From his base of operation in Nepal, standards for subsequent restoration Sanday guided other conservation projects in the Kathmandu Valley. projects across Asia, including From 1976-1980, Sanday served as Bangladesh, China, India, Malaysia the UNESCO Project Manager in and Pakistan. In 1984, the fund Kathmandu, and assisted the govern­ commissioned Sanday to conduct a ment in the development of a monu­ structural survey and conservation ments conservation program. In 1978, management plan for the Palace of WMF (then the International Fund for Leh, in Ladakh, India. The Gokarna Monuments) conducted a conserva­ project was completed in 1988, and in tion survey of the Mahadev Temple in that year Sanday relocated to Los Gokarna and asked Sanday to direct Angeles to assume the position of the ensuing restoration project, which Program Officer for Architectural began at the end of 1979. The April Conservation Grants at The Getty 1980 IFM Newsletter featured the Grant Program. John Sanday participants in a ceremony at the central stupa, Preah Khan, blessing the inauguration following report from Sanday: In November 1989 Sanday led a of the Preah Khan Conservation Project in January 1993. four-member team assembled by WMF During my first visit to the site, with a to survey the Historic City of Angkor. overseen the research, jungle clearance group to visit the sites and examine view to start work, I arranged to meet Angkor had only recently become and structural stabilization work at them from a broader conservation _, and talk with village and religious accessible, and WMF had been pursu­ WMF's site, Preah Khan. The situation perspective. No one had observed leaders and one yellow clad Yogi who ing efforts for a year to assess the has changed radically since the 19 89 Angkor in this comprehensive way... had recently taken up residence in one conservation needs first hand. During visit, when Sanday and his three We were acutely aware that this ofthe rest-houses ofthe complex. three weeks in Cambodia, the team survey colleagues were the only guests pristine site had survived for centuries. This Yogi, who had given up speaking spent seven days at Angkor, surveying in a Siem Reap hotel whose elevator as a result ofa disagreement with the and documenting the principal cabin remained stuck on the third At present John Sanday divides his former monarch, made known his structures and preparing recommen­ floor, where it had stopped in 1975. time between Kathmandu, where he displeasure at my presence in the dations for future work at the site. Interviewed for the Fall 1990 WMF maintains an architectural conserva­ temple; our conversation was carried Today WMF is playing a leading role Newsletter, he spoke of an eerie, tion consulting firm, and Angkor. on using chalk on a slate and was in the international effort to help sometimes frightening, but always Thanks to a grant from the British interpreted and suitably edited by my Angkor recover from nearly two intriguing experience: Embassy in Phnom Penh, he now Nepalese colleague. During my next decades of civil war. Sanday has spends an average of two weeks per We were prepared for the worst... month working on various conserva­ On the fifth day I remember wonder­ tion projects at Angkor, where he is ing ifwe'd get through to the end. known by the locals as "Thorn Na," When we emerged after seven days at which in Khmer means "Big Big." -1995 Kress Foundation European Russia, St. Petersburg Angkor, having experienced no Due to Sandais achievements, Preservation Program Grants $25,000 for conservation research disturbances and having accomplished conservation activity at Preah Khan is This year WMF has awarded five and project planning at the Alexander everything that we had set out to do, ongoing, and the site is an accessible grants through the Kress Foundation Palace, the last palace occupied by the we were immensely relieved... Our must-see on every visitor's Angkor European Preservation Program to Romanovs. group was the first international itinerary. support conservation activities in Europe. Scotland, Glasgow $20,000 to the Burrell Collection to Albania, Butrint support conservation of two gesso $20,000 to the Butrint Foundation for friezes by Charles Rennie Mackintosh planning site management in anticipa­ and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh tion of tourism development along in the Ingram Street Tea Room's one of the Mediterranean's last White Dining Room. pristine coastal landscapes. The site of Butriut features fragments of Roman Established in 1987, the Kress Foun­ architecture dating from the early 7th­ dation European Preservation Pro­ 6th century B.C. gram provides grants to European national and municipal institutions, Croatia, Conservation Planning for preservation organizations, and the Monasteries in Dalmatia owners of public monuments and $7,000 to support preparation of publicly accessible works of art. planning meeting to develop conserva­ Kress grants, generally awarded on a tion program for monasteries along one-time basis, are intended to the Dalmatian coast. complement other funding sources.

France, .Iy1aintenon For eligibility criteria and application $IO,OOO towards restoration of the information, please contact Felicia roof and spire of the St. Nicholas Mayro, Program Assistant, World Chapel, which is part of the complex Monuments Fund, 174 East 80th WMF's multinational conservation team during March I994 field mission. John Sanday, Preah Khan of the Chateau de Maintenon. Street, New York, N.Y. I002I. Project Manager, is third from left in the standing row. • ACTIVITIES

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The Czech Ilepublic and Hungary Weekend festivities. On Monday, This summer, WMF is pleased to offer participants will continue on via Brno, two itineraries to Hungary and the Tele, and Czesky Krumlov to Prague. Czech Republic to visit the castles of Participants depart from Prague on Eszterhaza, Valtice and Lednice, August 5. where WMF has ongoing projects. The trips will coincide with the Both groups will attend the Valtice Valtice Festival, scheduled for the Festival. Highlights include a Gala weekend of July 28-30. Dinner on Saturday evening, July 29; evening jazz and baroque music Tour A originates in Vienna on performances in the castle chapel, Monday, July 24, then continues on courtyard, or amphitheater; and to visit Eszterhaza Castle in north­ dance performed by young Czech and western Hungary, and to the Czech American dancers. Other weekend Republic to tour the historic towns of activities include wine tastings, tours Valtice, Lednice, Mikulov and Brno. of the park follies, picnics and barbe­ Tour members will attend the Valtice cues. Fireworks conclude each Festival, and return home via Vienna evening's events. on Sunday, July 30. To receive an itinerary and booking information, please contact Monika Tour B originates in Vienna on Riely at (212) 517-9367, or write to WMF Chairman Marilyn Perry, David Rockefeller and Marella Agnelli at the 1994 Hadrian Award Luncheon. October 14. 1994 at The Pierre in New York City. Mrs. Agnelli, honored Friday, Jnly 28, and proceeds directly WMF, 174 East 80th Street, New with her husband Giovanni Agnelli at WMF's Hadrian Award Luncheon in 1992. presented to Valtice to participate in the Gala York, N.Y. I002I. the 1994 award to Mr. Rockefeller. The Eighth Annual Hadrian Award Luncheon will honor Jacob, Lord Rothschild and will Jewish lHIer-itage Council Tour of take place on October 20. 1995 at The Plaza. Italy is Postponed The Jewisb Heritage Council's Tour of Italy has been postponed. Updated information will be announced in future newsletters. To be on the JHC tour mailing list, please write to Elizabeth Sherman Graif, WMF Jewish In May 1994, the WMF Board of Trustees launched Winning the Race, Heritage Council, 174 East 80th a five-year campaign to raise $10 million to expand WMF's international Main entrance to the castle of Va Itice. Street, New York, N.Y. I002I. role in preserving endangered architectural treasures. During its first year, Winning the Race has raised a total of $5,880,000.

Winning the !Race - Year One WMF is pleased to announce exclusive Angkor T-shirts, available only through WMF. The T-shirts, of pre-shrunk 100% cotton, are $20 each ] (price includes handling and shipping). Designs, illustrated below, appear ...Crisis Response $950,000 (GOAL: $2.5 MILLION) on the front, with the WMF logotype in red On the back To order, please specify design and adult size: Apsaras (M or L), Lotus King (M or L), Warrior in Chariot (M, L or XL), Temple Plans (M, LorXL). International Programs $2.6 MILLION (COAL: $2.5 MILLION) Please make your check payable to World Monuments Fund. All proceeds support WMF's worldwide activities. General Programs $2..33 MILLION (COAL: $5 MILLION) -- WMFTotal $5.88 MILLION (COAL: $10 MILLJON) 1Tltfl ~ ANGKOR 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (in millions) r i 'I) I

Winning the Race - Commitments to Date

WMF salutes the donors who have made gifts and pledges to date to the Winning the Race campaign:

The Ahmanson Foundation Elbrun & Peter Kimmelman Anthony Balestrieri Foundation, Inc. A Norman S. Bergel Samuel H. Kress Foundation N Brown Fonndation Ronald S. Lauder & The Ronald S. Ralph & Patricia Falk Lauder Foundation G John C. Fontaine Georges & Lois de Menil K Virginia Gilder Paul Mellon Guide Foundation Marilyn Perry o Marieluise Hessel Cynthia H. Polsky R H. Peter Stern Robert W. Wilson Board of Trustees MAJOR DONORS 1994

Marilyn Perry $100,000 and above Mr. and Mrs. Leon Polsky Mr. Nicholas C. Forstmann Chairman Ann and Harry J. ReicherFoundation Mr. Ted Forstmann Florence J. Gould Foundation, Inc. Republic National Bank of New York TECHINT, INC. Hilary G. Barratt-Brown Samuel H. Kress Foundation Ms. Bridget Restivo Mr. Larry Gagosian Vice Chairman The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation Mr. Laurance S. Rockefeller The Hon. and Mrs. Henry Grunwald Mr. Paul Mellon The Rockefeller Group Mr. Andrew Heiskell The Hon. Ronald S. Lauder Mr. Robert W. Wilson Mr. Jose Soriano Marife Hernandez Vice Chairman and Chairman, Mr. Donald J. Sutherland Mr. Roger Hertog Jewish Heritage Council The Eugene V. and Clare Thaw Mrs. Eleanor Harris Howard $50,000 and above Charitable Trust Ms. Lydia Irwin H. Peter Stern Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Tompkins Sidney Janis Ltd. Vice Chairman Guide Foundation Trust for Mutual Understanding Ms. Elizabeth Ross Johnson National Endowment for the Arts Venice Committee Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert H. Kinney Robert W. Wilson Ralph E. Ogden Foundation International Fund for Monuments Dr. and Mrs. Henry A. Kissinger Vice Chairman & Treasurer of Minnesota Dr. Mathilde and Arthur B. Krim Mr. Paul Volcker Mrs. Noel Levine Robert J. Geniesse $10,000 and above Ms. Shelby White Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein Secretary The Dave H. and Reba Williams Eric and Jeanette Lipman Foundation The Ahmanson Foundation Foundation R.H. Macy & Co., Inc. Anthony P. Balestrieri Alliance Capital Management, L.P. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Miller Daisy Belin American Express Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nitze J. Carter Brown Mr. and Mrs. Sid Bass $2,500 and above Olive Bridge Fund Bonnie Burnham Georges and Lois de Menil The Papamarkou Foundation Patricia Falk Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Falk II Ms. Ruth Bowman Mr. I.M. Pei Peter Kimmelman Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg The Cahnman Foundation, Inc. Petrie Foundation Lois de Menil Ms. Marieluise Hessel Centennial Foundation Dr. Franz Rader Bertrand du Vignaud International Research and Exchange Gurney Foundation Inc. Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Fund, Inc. Paulo Viti Board Ms. Linda Noe Laine Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Roesenthal Nancy Brown Wellin Elbrun and Peter Kimmelman Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Derald H. Ruttenberg Fund, Inc. Mrs. Eugene McDermott Mr. and Mrs. Julio Mario Santo John Julius, Viscount Norwich Mobil Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Standish F. Medina Domingo The Hon. Claiborne Pell Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, Inc. Mr. Walter Mintz Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott Honorary Co-Chairmen Norton Family Foundation Dr. Marilyn Perry Drs. Terry and Stephen Shapiro PATA Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Roberto Schezen Mr. Peter M.F. Sichel Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm H. Wiener Union Pacific Corporation The Solow Art and Architecture WMF Affiliates Jane and Stuart Weitzman Foundation Mrs. Josephine McCarthy Wilson Sotheby's World Monuments Fund in Britain $5,000 and above Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sperry The Hon. Clive Gibson Mr. and Mrs. A. Alfred Taubman John Julius, Viscount Norwich Mr. and Mrs. Anthony P. Balestrieri $1,000 and above Tishman-Speyer Prj'perties Co-Presidents Mrs. Anne H. Bass Mr. and Mrs. Gera'ld Van der Kemp Ms. Patti Cadby Birch Mr. and Mrs. William R. Acquavella Ms. Nancy Varnedoe WMF France Cartier~ Inc. Anonymous Mr. Mario Vazzaler M. Hubert de Givenchy Mr. and Mrs. James Brice Mrs. Vincent Astor Mr. and Mrs. John J. Veronis President Mr. and Mrs. Gustavo Cisneros Mrs. Lily Auchincloss The Washington Post Co. The Coca Cola Company Ms. Susan L. Beningson Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Weiss WMF Comitato Italiano Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Cogan Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Bergel White & Case Count Paolo Marzatto Mrs. Jan Cowles Mr. Gilbert de Botton The Whitehead Foundation President The Charles Engelhard Foundation Mr. Thomas C.T. Brokaw Mr. Hiram P. Williams Jr. The Equitable The Hon. Anne Chambers Mr. Alfred S. Wilsey Fundaci6n Mexicana para los Fundacion Amparo Dr. and Mrs. John M. Cohen Mr. Robert Wohlgemuth Monumentos del Mundo EXCOR America Inc. Mr. William T. Coleman Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Zilkha Sra. Sophia de Landa de Jenkins Mr. Antonio Luis Ferre Mr. Edward T. Cone President Fleming Charitable Trust Ms. Catherine G. Curran Contributions received through Mr. Robert J. Geniesse Mr. Michel David-Weill December 3I, 1994 Associa,ao WMF (Portugal) Gilder Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Michael De Havenon Dr. Luis Farinha dos Santos Ms. Agnes Gund Mr. and Mrs. John D. Dennis WMF is pleased to acknowledge Founding President Hanes Foundation Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth generous assitance received on a pro Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Hearst Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. bono basis from the law firms of WMF Espana The Hearst Corporation Ms. Michele I. Doner Debevoise & Plimpton, Hughes S.A.R. La Infanta Dona Pilar, IBM Corporation Dun & Bradstreet Corp. Hubbard and Reed and Raphael and Duquesa de Badajoz International Paper Mr. William A. Edmundson Marks, and the financial managment Honorary Chairman Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Kahn Emigrant Savings Bank firm of William D. Witter, Inc. The Sydney and Frances Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Emil D. Juan Carlos Fierro Foundation Armand G. Erpf Fund, Inc. WMF expresses its deepest gratitude to President Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Ms. Wanda Ferragamo volunteers Sally Magid and Nancy The New York Times Mr. and Mrs. James Marston Fitch Preston in the New York office. Mr. Philip S. Niarchos Mr. John C. Fontaine

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