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QUASI±OFFICIAL AGENCIES 725 cost-of-living variations. Using these determine the eligibility of clients and maximum income levels and other priorities of service based on an financial factors, the Corporation's appraisal of the legal needs of the recipient programs establish criteria to eligible client community. For further information, contact the Office of Communications, Legal Services Corporation, 750 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20002±4250. Phone, 202±336±8800. Fax, 202-336-8959. Internet, http:// www.lsc.gov/. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560 Phone, 202±357±1300; or 202±357±2700 (Smithsonian Information Center). Internet, http:// www.si.edu/. Board of Regents: The Chief Justice of the United States WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST (Chancellor) The Vice President of the United States AL GORE Members of the Senate THAD COCHRAN, WILLIAM FRIST,D ANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Members of the House of Representatives SAMUEL JOHNSON, ROBERT LIVINGSTON, (1 VACANCY) Citizen Members HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., BARBER B. CONABLE, ANNE D'HARNONCOURT, LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR., HANNA HOLBORN GRAY, MANUEL L. IBANÄ EZ,H OMER A. NEAL, FRANK A. SHRONTZ, WESLEY SAMUEL WILLIAMS, JR. Officials: The Secretary I. MICHAEL HEYMAN The Inspector General THOMAS D. BLAIR Director, Office of Planning, Management L. CAROLE WHARTON and Budget Counselor to the Secretary for Biodiversity THOMAS E. LOVEJOY and Environmental Affairs Counselor to the Secretary for Electronic MARC PACHTER Communications and Special Projects Counselor to the Secretary for Community MIGUEL BRETOS Affairs and Special Projects Executive Assistant to the Secretary JAMES M. HOBBINS Executive Secretary to the Secretary BARBARA CEDERBORG Under Secretary CONSTANCE NEWMAN General Counsel JOHN E. HUERTA Director, Office of Government Relations DONALD L. HARDY Director, Office of Communications DAVID J. UMANSKY Director, Office of Information Technology VINCENT MARCALUS Senior Information Officer JIM CONKLIN, Acting Senior Business Officer ROLAND BANSCHER, Acting VerDate 22-OCT-98 06:59 Oct 30, 1998 Jkt 177653 PO 00000 Frm 00725 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 E:\JOURNAL\177653.102 pfrm01 PsN: 177653 726 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL Ombudsman CHANDRA HEILMAN Executive Director, Office of Membership ROBERT V. HANLE and Development Director, Office of Special Events and NICOLE L. KRAKORA Conference Services Chief Financial Officer RICK JOHNSON Director, Office of Sponsored Projects ARDELLE FOSS Director, Office of Equal Employment and ERA MARSHALL Minority Affairs Director, Office of Human Resources CAROLYN JONES Director, Office of Imaging, Printing, and JAMES H. WALLACE, JR. Photographic Services Director, Office of Contracting JOHN W. COBERT Director, Office of Physical Plant MICHAEL SOFIELD Director, Office of Protection Services DAVID F. MORRELL Director, Office of Environmental WILLIAM F. BILLINGSLEY Management and Safety Treasurer SUDEEP ANAND Comptroller M. LESLIE CASSON Provost J. DENNIS O'CONNOR Director, Anacostia Museum and Center for STEVEN NEWSOME African American History and Culture Director, Archives of American Art RICHARD WATTENMAKER Building Director, Arts and Industries JAMES HOBBINS Building Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design DIANNE PILGRIM Museum Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. MILO C. BEACH Sackler Gallery Director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture JAMES T. DEMETRION Garden Director, National Air and Space Museum DONALD D. ENGEN Director, National Museum of African Art ROSLYN A. WALKER Director, National Museum of American Art ELIZABETH BROUN Curator in Charge, Renwick Gallery KENNETH R. TRAPP Director, National Museum of American SPENCER CREW History Director, National Museum of the American W. RICHARD WEST, JR. Indian Director, National Campaign for NMAI JOHN L. COLONGHI Director, National Museum of Natural ROBERT W. FRI History Director, National Portrait Gallery ALAN M. FERN Director, National Postal Museum JAMES BRUNS Director, National Zoological Park MICHAEL ROBINSON Director, Office of Exhibits Central MICHAEL HEADLEY Director, Center for Museum Studies REX ELLIS Director, Smithsonian Institution Traveling ANNA R. COHN Exhibition Service Director, Institutional Studies Office ZAHAVA DOERING Editor, Joseph Henry Papers Project MARC ROTHENBERG Director, Office of Fellowships and Grants ROBERTA RUBINOFF Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Environmental DAVID L. CORRELL Research Center VerDate 22-OCT-98 06:59 Oct 30, 1998 Jkt 177653 PO 00000 Frm 00726 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 E:\JOURNAL\177653.103 pfrm01 PsN: 177653 QUASI±OFFICIAL AGENCIES 727 Director, Smithsonian Marine Research MARY RICE Station Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical IRWIN I. SHAPIRO Observatory Director, Smithsonian Tropical Research IRA RUBINOFF Institute Director, Smithsonian Center for Materials LAMBERTUS VAN ZELST Research and Education Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries NANCY E. GWINN Director, Museum Support Center CATHERINE J. KERBY Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives ETHEL W. HEDLIN Director, Smithsonian Office of Education ANN BAY Director, Center for Folklife Programs and RICHARD KURIN Cultural Studies Director, National Science Resources Center DOUGLAS LAPP Director, Wider Audience Development MARSHALL WONG Program Director, Office of International Relations FRANCINE BERKOWITZ Director, Smithsonian's Affiliates Program MICHAEL CARRIGAN Director, Smithsonian Center for Latino (VACANCY) Initiatives Director, Institute of Conservation Biology RUTH STOLK Counselor to the Provost (Asian-Pacific- FRANKLIN ODO American Activities) Director, Smithsonian Press/Smithsonian DANIEL GOODWIN Productions Editor, Smithsonian Magazine DON MOSER Publisher, Smithsonian Magazine RONALD WALKER Director, The Smithsonian Associates MARA MAYOR The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 1 Chairman JAMES A. JOHNSON President LAWRENCE J. WILKER National Gallery of Art 1 President ROBERT H. SMITH Director EARL A. POWELL III Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1 Director (VACANCY) Deputy Director SAMUEL WELLS Deputy Director for Planning and DEAN W. ANDERSON Management Chairman, Board of Trustees JOSEPH H. FLOM More than 150 years old, the Smithsonian Institution is an independent trust instrumentality of the United States that fosters the increase and diffusion of knowledge. The world's largest museum complex, the Smithsonian includes 16 museums and galleries, the National Zoo, and research facilities in several States and the Republic of Panama. The Smithsonian holds more than 140 million artifacts and specimens in its trust for the American people. The Institution, a respected center 1 Administered under a separate Board of Trustees. VerDate 22-OCT-98 06:59 Oct 30, 1998 Jkt 177653 PO 00000 Frm 00727 Fmt 6997 Sfmt 6995 E:\JOURNAL\177653.103 pfrm01 PsN: 177653 728 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL for research, is dedicated to public education, national service, and scholarship in the arts, sciences, and history. The Smithsonian Institution was created documentation, and interpretive and by act of August 10, 1846 (20 U.S.C. 41 educational programs relating to African- et seq.), to carry out the terms of the will American history and culture. The of British scientist James Smithson African-American church, the Harlem (1765±1829), who in 1826 had Renaissance, and jazz have been the bequeathed his entire estate to the subjects of recent exhibitions produced United States ``to found at Washington, by the Museum. under the name of the Smithsonian The Center mounts exhibitions such as Institution, an establishment for the ``Jazz Age in Paris,'' a SITES exhibition increase and diffusion of knowledge that premiered at the Center; sponsors among men.'' On July 1, 1836, Congress public programs; and collects material accepted the legacy and pledged the (approximately 7,000 objects) faith of the United States to the representative of the black experience in charitable trust. performing arts and art and culture. In September 1838, Smithson's legacy, For further information, contact the Anacostia which amounted to more than 100,000 Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE., Washington, DC gold sovereigns, was delivered to the 20020. Phone, 202±357±2700. mint at Philadelphia. Congress vested Archives of American Art The Archives responsibility for administering the trust contains the Nation's largest collection in the Smithsonian Board of Regents, of documentary materials reflecting the composed of the Chief Justice, the Vice history of visual arts in the United States. President, three Members of the Senate, On the subject of art in America, it is the three Members of the House of largest archives in the world, holding Representatives, and nine citizen more than 12 million documents. The members appointed by joint resolution Archives gathers, preserves, and of Congress. To carry out Smithson's mandate, the microfilms the papers of artists, Institution: craftsmen, collectors, dealers, critics, and Ðperforms basic research; art societies. These papers consist of Ðpublishes the results of studies, manuscripts, letters, diaries, notebooks, explorations, and investigations; sketchbooks, business records, clippings, Ðpreserves for study and reference exhibition catalogs, transcripts of tape- more than 140 million artifacts, works of recorded interviews, and photographs of art, and scientific specimens; artists and their work. Ðorganizes exhibits representative of The Archives' chief processing and the arts, the sciences, and American reference center is in the historic Old history and culture; and Patent Office