EARTHQUAKE FUND FOR ASSISI The World Monuments Fund® (WMF) is a private The Friends of Assisi, an emergency appeal to assist Italy's recovery from the recent earthquakes that have struck nonprofit organization founded in 1965 by individu~ the center of the country, has been founded in association als concerned about the accelerating destruction with WMF. Since September 26, 1997 a series of powerful Whither Cambodiai' tremors and strong aftershocks have damaged parts of of important artistic treasures throughout the Umbria and the Marches. At the Basilica Superiore ofthe world. Church of San Francesco in Assisi, the tremors caused a nJuly 4,John Stubbs and I The ensuing weeks were full of <, section ofthe irreplaceable frescoed vault to collapse, were on a plane out of worry for our team in the field at To date WMF has orchestrated more than 165 killing two monks and two Italian government engineers O Dubrovnik, after a week ofgrappling Angkor. Communications were cut major projects in 52 countries. Today, with who were inspecting damage from the earlier quake. Throughout this part of Italy, where many characteristic first-hand with the staggering off, and we pored over newspapers affiliates established ,in EUfope--in Britain, France, late-medieval and early Renaissance townscapes were so challenge ofrebuilding the countries and Internet reports wondering thoroughly preserved, dozens oftowns have sustained Italy, Portugal, and Spain-the World Monuments that were once Yugoslavia. Reading how our more than 60 Cambodian major damage and hundreds of buildings and works of art the newspaper we learned that Prince workers were faring, and how to Fund sponsors an ongoing program for the are now on the brink of being lost. As in 1966, in response to the flooding that devastated Ranarridh, First Prime Minister of proceed with the field program at conservation of cultural heritage worldwide. WMF Florence and Venice, the World Monuments Fund will Cambodia, had fled the country, Preah Khan that has become, over is currently involved with 62 projects in 46:coun participate in a grassroots effort mobilizing individuals to ousted by Second Prime Minister the last eight years, the World help rescue the irreplaceable historic heritage of Italy. Hun Sen. Monuments Fund's biggest program tries. The World Monuments Watch, launched in Once the geological situation has stabilized, WMF will TRANSPORTING SCULPTURE FOR SAFEKEEPING IN The summer had already seen investment anywhere in the world. STORAGE AT SlEM REAP CONSERVATION FACILITY. 1995 on the occasion ofthe 30th anniversary ofthe work with the Friends of Assisi and the Italian authorities to identify a restoration project. Checks can be made out dramatic events in Cambodia, We were horrified by the violence World Monuments Fund, aims to enhance the to the World Monuments Fund/Assisi, 949 Park Avenue, including the first images ofPol Pot and felt called upon to take a moral At that moment ofgreat concern New York, New York 10028. Direct inquiries may be con~ organization's unique capacity to identifY imper- in decades, as he impassively position. But we could not imagine about the immediate future, we also made to Barbara Gimbel at the Friends ofAssisi, (212) 585 2 fronted a strange "trial" by his former abandoning the people we had began to make new long-term plans 3 iled cultural heritage sites and leverage financial 2695,?r to Laurie B,eckelman at WMF, (212) 517·9367. followers. The world began talking carefully trained and nurtured. We to underscore our educational and technical support for their preservation. about bringing him to justice before debated the impact ofour assistance mission in Cambodia. By the year For additional information, please see WMF's New Publications an international tribunal. and considered the consequences of 2000, we hope to establish a small Then, following the news of further violence, ifit should strike training and research center that will Web site at
T he World Monuments be the focus ofall WOtk. I would like to elaborate engaged in the public realm. communities, encouraging ofmonuments sustainable) well as those identified by Fund', 10th annual In Mies's office we didn't on the meaning ofthe This has been especially citizen action to save and and our work worthwhile. the World Monuments Hadrian Award Luncheon took speak ofmonuments, but if public realm. Each monu- applicable to the cotporate manage great sites and The worldwide loss of Warch, and alas many place on October 24, 1997 at the you think ofthe word in its mene has its individual world ofthe twentieth historic cities. The existence community and therefore of others, there is much work Plaza Hotel. His Highness the essential meaning, derived scory, but even iHt could be century. The moment ofthe List of100 Most human history continues to to do. Fortunately we have Aga Khan, the 1996 honoree, from the Latin, a monu~ viewed as a selrcontained business or professional Endangered Sites has moti~ take a mounting toll in this the World Monuments presented the award to Phyllis ment is "something that landmark, like the Ben Ezra organizations decide to vated the White Mountain century, in war and peace. Fund as an effective Lambert. Ms. Lambert, reminds," a marker "that by Synagogue in Cairo, it does build, they claim responsi- Apache Tribe to plan the A dramatic fight took place advocate and a clearing founder and director of the its survival commemorates not and cannot stand alone, bility and take a motal preservation ofits built against the perversion of house. This private Canadian Centre for Architec- a person, action, period, or for the building tepresents position affecting all those heritage; it has encouraged public responsibility during organization forms and ture in Montreal, directed the event."* the beliefs and the daily who walk by or the people of the 1960s and 1970s, the joins public-private partner- Ben Ezra Synagogue Restora- This definition embodies lives, and the history ofthe who enter their In a drastically Prague to plan period ofso-called urban ships in the efforts to stop tion Project in Cairo as well as three issues ofvital concern: generations that built and building, affect' politicized and the vital renewal that devastated the destruction and to reinvigo- other notable preservation first is commemoration, maintained and revered it. ing the larger antagonistic present, protection of cities ofNorth America. rate our cities, proving we efforts. WMF is pleased to memory, without which Above all, through its very area around to focus on the the city's Today we see the continu- can advance the extent and reprint her acceptance speech. there is no continuity, no survival among numerous them, and the evidence of dialogue historic ing lack ofunderstanding of the quality ofthe im- To be presented the history, and therefqre no Coptic churches and, city as a whole. shows this essential center. These the role ofgovernment as mensely important work we Hadrian Award ofthe civil society, no public nearby, the first mosque The recognition civility to be the rule are only two guardian ofthe public realm undertake. To demonstrate World Monuments Fund is realm. History is also built in Egypt, [the syna- ofexchange, of the public realm, examples. And in the dam projects that will alternatives, to demonstrate 5 a great honor, and to be bound with the second gogueJ is emblematic ofthe creating a not the exception. the Fund has flood vast populated areas that there are ways to View of the ark, Ben Ezra presented with this medal attribute through which the interaction, over a millen; permeability of used the ofthe Yangtze River Valley develop sanely, and to Synagogue, Cairo, Egypt. The by you [H.H. The Aga subject ofthe monument- nium, ofthe three mono- outside and inside involving Hadrian Award to recog- in China and sweep away maintain our history and Ben Ezra Synagogue Restora- Khan], who works so a person, an action, a theistic religious communi; nize the Aga Khan's ancient tribal cultures with our humanity, is to main; tion Project, 1981-1994, public with the private, Phyllis Lambert, director. extensively and effectively, period, an event-implicitly ties-Jewish, Christian, private with the public, has projects which strengthen the Narmada River project tain the public realm. I am intensifies the honor. involves public recognition. Islamic. The intention to been one ofthe profound urban communities in all in India. In these places as happy to be part ofthis. May I also thank my Finally survival is a condition restore the Ben Ezra ethical positions ofmodern- their dimensions-economic, brother Edgar, an extraor~ required ofa monument; to Synagogue was to encour; ism in this century. Its great social, architectural-all at dinary partner in much of create a monument is an act age and to nourish dialogue architects created a new once. The Aga Khan Prize my work, as well as David ofimaginatio.n addressed to between Muslim andJew. vision ofthe public realm, in Architecture has engen~ Culver,]ohn Weinberg, a community ofpeople, In a drastically politicized one that has been champi; dered public and private Marilyn Perry, and my who will its survival, for the and antagonistic present, to oned by the World partnerships whereby colleagues, friends, and monument holds memory, focus on the evidence of Monuments Fund in the people with low income can friends ofthe World and without it, as the dialogue shows this Russakov Club in Moscow, obtain access to ownership, Monuments Fund, for common expression has it, essential civility to be the the Radio and Television and with it, the ability to your suppOrt. out ofsight is out ofmind. rule ofthe public realm, not Building in Brussels, increase their skills, and To be associated with the The survival ofmonu- the exception. Ifthe and today, the Seagram control their own lives and World Monuments Fund ments, survival ofpublic synagogue did not stand} Building in New Yotk. community. It is this human has a particular importance memory, and continuity of this history would be mute. I am excited and tremen~ dimension, in Hyderabad to me for the word "monu- the public realm, is what As the public realm dously gtateful to know and Medina and in similar ment" stands as a powerful the World Monuments signifies the engagement of that the World Monu- work I undertake in the Phyllis Lambert (left), l"ecipient of the 1997 Hadrian Award, with mark denoting the public Fund is about. private citizens, the private ments Fund programs make neighborhoods ofMontreaI, 1996 award recipient His Highness the Aga Khan and WMF realm, which I consider to * OXfOl'd English Dictionary citizen must also be common cause with that makes the maintenance Chairman Marilyn Perry. A Decade of European Prese~rvationGrants Kress Foundation Funding for 108 Projects in 27 Countries
Challenge grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation WMF on other selected, often discouraged local No. 20 DOMINICK STREET, preservation commu~ DUBLIN, IRELAND ~ Detail of $t~ICCO and the World Monuments Fund have revitalized restora~ nity-the World Monu long-term projects in Italy, action. Rather than ornamentation offront room ceiling. tion projects throughout Europe over the past 10 years, and eventually at the another long~term project, ments Watch, The employing American patterns of matching funds to inspire Cathedral in Toledo, we felt that what was purpose ofthe World greater local involvement. The President of the Samuel H. Spain, and also in Ireland. needed was a mechanism Monuments Watch Kress Foundation, Marilyn Perry, describes some ofthe These projects continued to invite greater private~ program is to draw background to the program. well into the 1980s. sector initiative and attention to sites through~ support. The program was out the world that are in How LONG HAS THE munificent personal WHAT WAS THE IMPETUS established in 1987. imminent danger. It is also SAMUEL H. KRESS donation to the Italian FOR ESTABLISHING THE a small grants program FOUNDATION BEEN state for the restoration of KRESS FOUNDATION ARE THE RESULTS that shares many elements
INVOLVED IN HISTORIC monuments in Crotone, EUROPEAN PRESERVA~ GRATIFYING? ARE THERE NEW ofthe Kress Foundation's PRESERVATION? Mantua, Ravenna, and TION PROGRAM? The new approach has CHALLENGES AHEAD? efforts in Europe, The The preservation of Spoleto. In the 1940s and Several siievisits had a heartening success. The Kress Foundation has World Monuments European cultural heritage '50s the Foundation prompted the Kress Over the past decade, the made its most important Watch has opened a new 6 7 is the foundation's oldest supported post~war trust€fes to reconsicler Kress Foundation has contributions to the chapter for WMF-and programmatic commit~ reconstruction in Europe. sustained granted $4.4 preservation movement by extension for WMF's Over the past ment. Samuel H. Kress's commitments million to through our participation donors-and is already decade, the Kress first major act ofphilan THE FOUNDATION to specific WMFfor with WMF, and through providing new awareness Foundation has thropy-in 1929, the year COUNTS ITSELF AMONG sites. Through European WMF's expanding inter ofthe need for the granted $4.4 he created the Kress THE EARLIEST DONORS out Europe, preservation national role. A decade protection and mainte million to WMF for Foundation-was a TO THE WORLD MONU~ countless activities, ago the Kress challenge nance ofthe great artistic European preserva~ MENTS FUND; HOW DID important supporting 62 gaveWMF treasures tion activities. THIS RELATIONSHIP historic field projects as the oppor ofour COME ABOUT? buildings and works ofart well as publications, project tunity to world. In the wake ofthe devas stood in dire condition for planning, and training. reach Like the tating Venetian flood in many reasons-neglect, Funds have been matched beyond Kress 1966, the nascent World natural disasters, pollu~ at least three~to~one-and field Founda- Monuments Fund (then tion, conflict-and often much more-in supervision tion the International Fund for chronic funding problems great part by local donors. to the full European ~ Monuments) issued a call range of ST. TROPHIME, ARLES, FRANCE Preserva~ SYNAGOGUE IN SPlSSKE POOHRADIE, SLOVAKIA ~ Synagogue facade. Dctail ofportal figure during restoration. to American organizations preserva~ don for help in joining the activities in Program, UNESCO campaign for which it now excels. On the World Monuments Venice. In 1970, the Kress the occasion ofits 30th Watch offers a tangible Foundation"adopted" the anniversary in 1995, with a demonstration ofinterna entire church ofthe Pied, new office, enlarged staff, tional concern to dedicated a major restoration project and major corporate local groups that care that lasted for several sponsorship, WMF about preserving their years. This established a launched a new challenge heritage. Both programs
ZEYREK CAMH, ISTANBUL ~ pattern ofworking with to the international are beacons ofhope. View of the Middle Church, looking eMt. Site Name, City, Country Site Name, City, Country
I Herat Old City, Herat, Afghanistan 53 Kampong Cina River Frontage, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia 2 Butrint Archaeological Site, Sarande, 54 Mnajdra Prehistoric Temples, Albania Mnajdra, Malta 3 Ushuaia Prison, Ushuaia, Tierra del 55 Carolina Hacienda (Main House), Fuego, Argentina Chihuahua, Mexico 4 Previous Radio and Television Building, 56 Madera Cave Dwellings, Chihuahua, Brussels, Belgium Mexico 5 Tour and Taxis, Brussels, Belgium 57 Metropolitan Cathedral, Mexico City, List of 100 6 Wortel Colony Estate, Hoogstraten, Mexico Belgium 58 Monasteries of San Juan Bautista, 10 7 Royal Palaces of Abomey, Abomey, Benin Tetela del Volcan and Tlayacapan, 8 Arani and Callapa Churches, Bolivia Morelos, Mexico 39 Most Endangered Sites 9 Rio Lauca Prehistoric Burial Towers, Department of Oruro, Bolivia 59 Palace of Fine Arts, 10 Village of Pocitelj, Pocitelj, Bosnia and Herzegovina Mexico City, Mexico r II Madara Horseman, Kaspichan, Bulgaria 60 Teotihuacan Archaeological Site, San 12 Banteay Chhmar Temple ofJayavarman VII, Thmar Puok, Cambodia Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico 1998~99 13 Gulf ofGeorgia Cannery, Richmond, 61 Vega de la Peiia Archaeological Site, British Columbia, Canada Filo-Bobos, Veracruz, Mexico 14 Alameda Railroad Station, Santiago, 62 Bogd Khaan Palace Museum, " Chile Ulaanbaatar Town, Mongolia 15 Tulor Aldea, San Pedro de Atacama, ,o 63 Gombas of Upper Mustang, "In Apache, we believe igoya'j bee Chile ;; Lo Manthang, Mustang, Nepal n September 5, 1997 goz'oa, 'wisdom sits in places.' $3.37 million to 54 listed sites. The World 16 Jufu Hall, Xian Nong Tan, Beijing, 73 '" 64 Wooden Architecture ofTrondheim, China Trondheim, Norway WMF announced the Our mountains, our springs, other Monuments Watch review process § 17 Namseling Manor, Drachi, Tibet, China 65 Uch Monument Complex, Punjab Province, Pakistan 1998-99 List of100 Most places all hold stories that tell us included the reevaluation ofall 1996 sites. ~ 18 PalpungTibetan Monastery, Babang 66 San Lorenzo Castle and San Geronimo :< Village, Sichuan, China Fort, Colon and Portobelo, Panama Endangered Sites at the who we are and how to live. We WMF's selection panel detetmined that 25 14 19 Ducal Palace, Zadar, Croatia 67 Apurlec Archaeological Site, say that the wisdom from places is 20 Franciscan Monastery Library, Dubrovnik, Croatia Lambayeque, Peru Collectot's Room ofthe Alexander ofthese sites continue to face preservation 21 Reina Cemetery, Cienfuegos, Cuba 68 La Quinta Heeren, Lima, Peru Hal)1ilton U.S. Custom House on Bowling like water. As long as we drink challenges critical and urgent enough to 22 Follies and Conservatory in Lednice 69 "Ransom Room," Cajamarca, Peru Park, Lednice and Valtice Villages, 70 Kabayan Mummy Caves, Kabayan, from these places, the wisdom we Green in Lower Manhattan. In a moving warrant renewed listing. Czech Republic Benguet, Philippines keynote speech, White Mountain receive from them never dries up. To respect and preserve the world's 23 Heavenly Father Chapel, Kutmi Hora, 71 San Sebastian Basilica, Manila, Czech RepUblic Philippines And we drink from places by 24 Nebilovy Mansion, Nebilovy, Plzen 72 Debno Parish Church, Nowy Targ, 8 Apache T tibe Chairman Ronnie Lupe heritage in a cogent fashion requires ., 9 remembering everything about District, Czech Republic Poland described how a master plan to conserve effective planning and global action. In 25 Prague's Historic Center, Prague, 73 Vistulamouth Fortress, Gdarisk, Poland them. We learn their names, and and interpret the endangered Fort many cases, lack of concern and recogni~ Czech Republic 74 Brancusi's Endless Column. Tiirgu-Jiu, Romania remember what happened at 26 Mortuary Temple of King Ahmenhotep III, 75 Romano Catholic Church, Ghelinta, Romania Apache compound-built by the tion cannot be overcome without outside Gurna, Luxor, Egypt 25 76 Agate Pavilion ofthe Catherine Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, them. If we do these things, we U.S. cavalry in 1871-will shate the help. Many ofthe sites on the 1998-99 list 27 Suchitoto City, Suchitoto, Cuscatlan, EI Salvador (St. Petersburg), Russia will walk a long way and live a long 28 Mentewab~Qwesqwam Palace, Gondar, Ethiopia 77 Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, story ofa clash between two cultures, confront the same problems-a lack of 29 Levuka Township, Levuka, Fiji (St. Petersburg), Russia time. We will be wise." 30 'Galerie des Actions de Monsieur Ie 78 Irkoutsk Historic Center, Irkoutsk, while teaching a new generation how to coordination among authorities, and a Prince,' Chateau of Chantilly, Russia care for its built, natural, and linguistic failure to recognize the importance of % Chantilly, France 79 Paanajarvi Village, Kemi Province, Ronnie Lupe, Chairman, White ~ 31 James Island, James Island, Gambia Russia hetitage-"There has been gteat pain preserving tangible sites. The sites cannot 232 Tbilisi Historic District, Tbilisi, Georgia 80 Russakov Club, Moscow, Russia Mountain Apache Tribe, Arizontl throughout the world, and now many be separated from their environments, just £ 33 Spa Center Historic Ensemble, 81 Yelagin Island Palace and Park ~ BalatonfOred, Hungary Ensemble, St. Petersburg, Russia places have become symbols ofgreat as organisms cannot be separated from a, 34 Ahmedabad Walled City, Ahmedabad, 82 Hell House, Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia .6 a India 83 Wind Mills of Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain change and healing. Fort Apache can be their habitats. Heritage preservation must '" 35 Jaisalmer Fort, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, 84 Ani Archaeological Site, Ocarli Koyu, Kars, Turkey 26 such a place fot the Apache people." find its place among other values that are India 85 Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey 36 Gemeindehaus, Haifa, Israel .6 PataraArchaeological Site, Patara, Turkey Since the announcement ofthe first being promoted on a community level; 37 Ramla White Mosque, Ramie Municipality, Israel .7 Masaka Cathedral, Kitovu Village, 38 Ancient Pompeii, Pompeii, Italy Uganda endangetedlist in 1996, the World cultural heritage must be seen as part of 39 Arch ofTrajan, Ancona,ltaly 88 Ancient Chersonesos, Sevastopol, Monuments Watch has effectively called the social fabric, as a tool for economic 40 Botanical Garden of Padua University, Padua, Italy Crimea, Ukraine 41 Etruscan Painted Tombs of Tarquinia, Tarquinia, Italy 89 Hadlow Tower, Tonbridge, England, attention to the issues that confront the growth, an asset for development, and a 42 Limonaia at Boboli Gardens in Florence and Gardens of Villa Medici at United Kingdom ptesetvation field worldwide. The first soutce ofwell-being. Castello, Florence, Italy 90 Mussenden Temple, Castlerock, 43 Neopitagorica Basilica, Rome, Italy "' Northern Ireland, United Kingdom list has alteady focused government and Han. Cyrus R. Vance, co-chairman of the 44 Palazzo Doria Pamphili, Valmotone, Italy ~ 91 St. Francis Church and Gorton 45 Rupestrian Churches of Puglia and the City of Matera, Italy Monastery, Manchester, England, 90 public attention on the utgency of World Monuments Watch International 46 Terra del Sole Prison Cells, Castrocaro United Kingdom preserving endangered sites before it is too late. Through Committee ofHonor, opened the occasion at the Custom House. Terme and Terra del Sole, Italy 92 The St. Vincent Street Church, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 47 Old Iron Bridge, Spanish Town, St. 93 Bodie State His'toric Park, California, U.S.A. the World Monuments Watch WMF has, in many cases, American Express Company Chairman and CEO Harvey Catherine, Jamaica 94 Fort Apache, Arizona, U.S.A. ptovided shott-tetm emetgency funding. Over the past 48 Petra, Wadi Mousa, Jordan 95 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Golub, WMF Chairman Dr. Marilyn Perry, WMF President 49 Vat Sisaket, Vientiane, Laos 96 Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, U.S.A. year, WMF's catalytic small gtants-ptovided by cotpota Bonnie Burnham, and WMF Vice President for Programs John 50 Abava Valley Cultural Landscape, 97 South Pass Cultural Landscape, Wyoming, U.S.A. Kurzeme District, Latvia 98 San Francisco Church, Coro, Falcon, Venezuela tions, foundations, and individuals-have mobilized Stubbs also addressed the gathering. 51 Enfeh, Enfeh (Tripoli), Lebanon 99 My Son Temple District, Duy Xuyen District, Vietnam othet support. To date, WMF has provided a total of 52 Vilnius Town Wall, Vilnius, Lithuania 100 Shibam Historic City, Shibam, Yemen 32 Bosnia « Mostar 2004 workshop » Croatia « a delegation Zadar » Czech Republic « emergency stabilization of
bas-relief panels » France « Chateau Aqueduct designated » Greece « th~ only surviving Jewish monument » Latvia « a specially protected cultural territory»
« stopping urban encroachment » Norway « funding to! preserve a wooden church » « The first post-World War II visit » Morocco • Russia
WMF and the World Burnham and Stubbs community, as well as the Watch, the synagogue's Morocco preserve the Vaga Old viewing iu August. World Monuments Watch impact visited other World local and national govern... conservation is an ongoing Medieval Sijilmassa Church. Following World Monuments Watch grants sites around the world .- Monuments Watch sites: ments. A government project ofWMF's Jewish The Moroccan... American Monuments Watch listing from American Express a selective view: the Old City Harbor in commission designated Heritage Program. Mission in Sijilmassa and the award of$15,000 have been credited as the Dubrovnik (1996-97 list); the site as a registered successfully petitioned the to install a surveillance source ofthese break... the Franciscan Monastery historic monument, government ofMorocco to system, the Municipality through developments. in Dubrovnik (1998-99 affording special legal recognize Medieval ofVaga allocated $50,000 The group also touted the list; American Express protection and public Sijilmassa as a national for a sprinkler system. In Catherine Palace, includ~ grant recipient) and Lopud subsidies for preservation. historic site. World addition, two Norwegian ing the unrestored Agate Franciscan Monastery on Monuments Watch listing corporations provided Pavilion (which is on the an island near Dubrovnik has been indirectly respon- grants totaling $12,000. new World Monuments HON. CVRUS VANCE (RIGHT) WITH MRS. VANCE (l.EFT) AND BONNIE (1996-97 list; Samuel H. sible for the construction Warch endangered lisr). BURNHAM IN MOSTAR. 10 Kress Foundation grant ofa perimeter around the Russia WMF's representatives II ABAVA VALLEV CULTURAL LANDSCAPE. Bosnia and Herzegovina recipient). In addition, a Foundation, two B.S. site's historic core to protect Alexander Palace also visited new World Mostar 2004 Workshop delegation from Zadar architectural conservation Latvia it from encroachment by FromJune 26-July 2, Monuments Watch sites: Hon. Cyrus Vance, co~ met WMF representatives students joined four Czech Abava Valley Cultural the modern town. Prof. WMF Trustee Patricia the eighteenth-century chaitman ofthe Wotld in Dubrovnik to discuss counterparts to carry out Landscape James Miller, a Clemson Falk, Vice PresidentJohn Yelagin Island Palace ETZ HAVIM SVNAGOGUE. Monuments Watch the Ducal Palace, which is emergency stabilization of Ojars Arvids Feldbergs, University archaeologist Stubbs} and consultant and Park Ensemble in Committee of Honor, on the 1998-99 list of100. bas-relief panels on the Greece (Crete) site nominator and now leading the excavation Baron Lobstein treated St. Petersburg, and the WMF President Bonnie Rendezvous Folly. Etz Hayim Synagogue administrator ofthis work has government members ofthe Garden remarkable Russakov Club Burnham, Vice President Nikos Stavroulakis} who national "Specially support for an exhibition Club ofAmetica to the in Moscow. John Stubbs, and Projects France has single-handedly led an Protected Cultural on Sijilmassa to be held in first post-Wodd War II CootdinatorJon Calame Chateau Aqueduct extraordinary effort to Territory," reports that Morocco and the U.S. visit to the ofthe imperial Information about WMF attended the inauguration World Monuments preserve the only surviving World Monuments suites ofNicolas II and and its World Monuments ofthe third annual Mostar Watch listing helped Jewish monument on Watch listing facilitated Alexandra. Provisional Watch program can now be 2004 workshop, July 2-7, attract the attention ofthe Crete, notes "indicating this new status. As a restoration ofthese spaces accessed via our Web site 1997, held in Mostar for French preservation that the project is under result, local governments was completed for public
Dalmatian Coast With sponsorship from Though no longer listed don ofBelgium. significant funding to ALEXANDER PALACE, TSARSKOE $ELO (ST. PETERSBURG). While in the Balkans, the Samuel H. Kress CHATEAU AQUEDUCf, on the World Monuments Ronald Lauder, a fellow WMF vice Together they builr Cedar House in year, he was the first contributor to chairman. Mountainville with its collection of WMF's effort to restore Brancusi's Stern's three children, Lisa, Indian and Islamic art. As a research Endless Column in Romania, which H .. Peter Stern Beatrice, andJohn Stern, are biologisr, Johns established the he and many others consider the WMF Vice Chairman involved today in the governance of relationship between mammalian leading twentieth-century European the Storm King Art Center and physiology and rhe vomeronasal sculpture. This projecr brings share many ofhis cultural and organ, part ofa second olfactory together his interest in outdoor philanthropic interests. Stern's system. The discovery was pub sculpture and restoration. The only n 1971, Col. Jim Gray, who had attended the Ecole Internationale in cultural interests have grown ever lished in the scientificjournal Nature twentieth-century sculpture on the established the International Geneva, Switzerland before arriving I wider over the years. In the late in 1978. Today she devotes her rime inaugural World Monuments Fund for Monuments in 1965, in rhe U.S. in 1940. 1970s he took up acting and seri to pastel painting and writing. Watch List of100 Most Endangered invited Peter Stern to lunch to make While attending Scarsdale High ously consideredjoining a traveling For his dedication to the World Sites, Brancusi's masterpiece has his acquaintance. By dessert, Stern School, Stern ofren visired the recruited Bonnie Burnham as troupe. His second wife, research Monuments Fund over two decades, been retained on the new list. Peter had become a board member and Metropolitan Museum ofArt and director in 1985. biologist Dr. Margarer Johns, Stern was the first individual to Stern is happy that WMF does not vice chairman ofthe International read voraciously about art and Over the years, Stern has been persuaded him instead to take up receive the WMF Gold Medal at the rest on its laurels, but finds new Fund for Monuments. At that time, history. He graduated magna cum instrumental in broadening WMF's the violin again, and Stern now plays 25th anniversary Hadrian Award challenges and opportunities-and the organization was principally laude and Phi Beta Kappa from vision and geographic scope. For late Beethoven string quartets. dinner in London in 1990. Just last meets them. active in Vcnke; the new trustee Harvard, followed by degrees from example, in December 1969 he immediately made possible the Columbia University's School of visited the Historic City ofAngkor, restoration ofthe organ and other International Relations and Yale a few months before it was overrun parts ofthe Church ofSanta Maria Law SchooL Stern left his legal by the Khmer Rouge. The safety del Giglio. In recognition ofthis and career in 1956 to take over St~r and preservation ofthe site haunted other philanthropic commitments, Expansion Company, a family Srern in the years following. Once 12 the Italian Government awarded business. In 1960 Storm King Art the political situation made access to him the Order ofMerit in 1979. Center was founded in rhe site possible in 1989, he urged Peter Stern was born in Hamburg Mountainville, NY and he became WMF's Board ofTrustees to make in 1928. His paternal grandfather Chairman and President. Under his the conservation ofAngkor a key established the largest oil company ongoing leadership, the Art Center priority. Elsewhere in Asia, in the in Germany, while his maternal has become the leading outdoor early 1970s he senr Professor Sol grandfather was a leading lawyer in museum for modern sculpture. Lewin, the leading stone restorer, to the Rhineland. In the year ofhis As of1974, Stern turned rhe daily Borobudur, Indonesia for a two birth, the family moved to Romania, management ofStar Expansion over month study ofthe deteriorating where his father took over the to others. He had read Toynbee's friezes on this Buddhist temple, a management ofShell Oil Company. autobiography and decided to follow Wodd Heritage Site. And between At age nine, after the German the historian's example and see all 1973 and 1978, Stern andJim Gray school he attended turned Nazi, he the great historical and architectural organized the Easter Island pro "commuted" between Bucharest and sites ofthe world. Over the follow gram. During this period, Stern Sr. Bedes' School, Eastbourne, ing 20 years, Stern largely accom financed the work ofthe disrin Sussex, England. Following the plished this goaL Notwithstanding guished archaeologist William outbteak ofWorld War II, Stern the demands that Storm King has Mulloy, whose leadership in restor placed on his time, Stern has ing the monumental altar figures
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI'S Endless Column, continually lent his expertise to the remains the most important work T ARGU-JW, ROMANIA. management ofrhe World Monu thar has been done on Easter Island ments Fund. As chairman ofthe to date. Stern also recruited his nominating committee for 25 years, friend Thor Heyerdahl as honorary he helped to recruit many trustees, chairman ofthe Easter Island including Lucius Eastman (chairman Committee and, in 1988, helped to from 1984-89), Marilyn Perry, and establish WMF's dynamic and J. Carter Brown. Together wirh successfulJewish Heritage program, Eastman and Marilyn Perry, he which is chaired by Ambassador SCOTLAND BOARD OF TRUSTEES Trips for Members
n September 8, 1997 American Express presented Marilyn Perry Anthon WMF is pleased to announce reliefs; and other monu~ a $50,000 grant to the St. Vincent Street Church Chairman Paul Beirn its travel schedule for the next mental temple sites in the (1857-59, designed by Alexander "Greek" Thomson), J. Carter Brown six months. Ifyou would like jungle. a World Monuments Watch site in Glasgow, Scotland. Pictured Hon. Ronald S. Laudet W. L. Lyons Brown,Jr. to be on our "Trip Mailing holding a Quaich-a traditional Celtic drinking cup-created to H. Petet Stern Bon~ie Burnham" List," or for more details April 21·29, 1998 commemorate the occasion (left to right): The Rt. Han. Donald Vice Chairmen Patricia Falk about any specific trip, please Easter Island Dewar, secretary of state for Scotland; Dr. Marilyn Perry, Louise L. Grunwald write to WMF's headquar· Begin with a day in chairman of the World Monuments Fund; The Rt. Han. Pat Lally, Robett W. Wilson Ashton Hawkins ters, 949 Park Avenue, Santiago, Chile, and a lord provost of Glasgow; and Chuck Farr, vice chairman of Vice Chairman and Prince Amyn Aga Khan New York, NY 10028, private tour ofthe Pre~ American Express. Treasurer Peter Kimmelman Attention: Trips. Colombian Museum, Jean~Yves Thibaudet and Cecilia Bartoli performing at WMF's Gala Romano. American Express has to date hosted award ceremonies at Jonathan S. Linen Spend four full days on more than 20 sites throughout the world. The St. Vincent Street RobertJ, Geniesse Lois de Menil January 17·24, 1998 Easter Island to see the Special Events The second World Church presentation took place during the 1997 American Secretary and General Samuel C. Miller On May 8, 1997 WMF Monuments Watch Dinner Society of Travel Agents conference. On September 6-7, Historic City of Angkor famous giant moat statues, hosted the Gala Romano took place on June 11 at American Express hosted a golf tournament to benefit the World Counsel Petet M. F. Sichel The week begins with a the summit ofOrongo and a recital at the Palazzo Windows on the World in Monuments Watch at the renowned St. Andrews course, raising Bertrand du Vignaud welcome dinner in Phnom its famous petroglyphs, Farnese by Cecilia Bartoli New York. The event a total of $76,700 for the program. In addition, a special Travel & Paolo Viti Penh, followed by a full stone quarries, caves andJean-Yves Thibaudet honored the recipients of Leisure World Monuments Watch supplement-featured in the Nancy Brown Wellin day ofsightseeing, includ including one with famous for 400 distinguished 1997 grants awarded to October 1997 issue-made its debut at the conference. ing the Royal Palace and rock paintings-and the the National Museum. village ofHanga Roa. guests followed by a sites on the 1996-97 List of Board Welcomes 1989. Our deepest sympa The next four and one~ Spend the final morning formal dinner. Count 100 Most Endangered Sites. New Trustees thies are extended to the halfdays are spent at the in the port city of Paolo Marzotto received OnJune 26, exhibition Paul Beirne, a partner in entire Belin family, 14 Historic City ofAngkor in Valparaiso, whose pedes~ 15 the WMF Gold Medal in curator HelenJessup led a the investment research leader~ Siem Reap: visit WMF's trian funicular elevator recognition ofhis special private tour ofthe and global money manage Thirza Cleveland, Venice project site at Preah Khan; system was included on ship ofWMF's first Khmer Art Exhibition at ment firm Sanford C. Benefactor renowned Angkor Wat, the 1996 List of100 Most European affiliare, the the National Gallery of Bernstein & Co., Inc., has It is with much sadness with its 800 meters ofbas- Endangered Site,. Comitato Italiano, Art in Washington, D.C. recently been elected to that WMF reports the founded in 1989. for 50 major donors to the Board ofTrustees. death ofMrs. Thirza ENSURING THE FUTURE OF WMF's Angkor program. Philanthropist and art Cleveland, a indefatigable MANKIND'S HERITAGE Mr, and Mrs. Robert collector Prince Amyn member ofthe Minnesota The support of our friends has been crucial to the Geniesse hosted the Aga Khan has also honored Chapter ofthe Venice growth ofthe World Monuments Fund over the past 30 cocktail reception following. WMF with his acceptance, Committee. Most re~ years, enabling us to orchestrate over 165 major The board is proud to cendy, Mrs. Cleveland conservation projects in '52 countries. However, our welcome back Peter M. F. spearheaded the effort to At the 1997 Hadrian Award luncheon, October 24, 1997 work has just begun and your support is crucial to our Sichel, a trustee from secure funding to restore efforts in the future. 1984-91 as well as a the angels in the Church An ideal way to help sustain our projects around the founder, benefactor, and ofSan Giovanni in globe is by including World Monuments Fund in your advisor ofWMF's Jewish Bragora in memory of will. A bequest to WMF can help ensure the preserva Heritage Program. Deacon Bartlett, the late tion of mankind's most important artistic and architec WMF Chairman Dr. Marilyn Perry husband ofchapter presents the Gold Medal to Count Paolo tural heritage for generations to come. It can also president Georgia Bartlett. Marzotto at the Gala Romano. provide significant estate tax savings. In Memoriam To date, WMF has For more information and suggestions for bequest ALlCE CARY BROWN, WMF JOHN STUBBS, VICE PRESIDENT WMF Trustee Daisy Belin received over $5000 in TROSTEE LEE BROWN, ANO VICE FOR PROGRAMS (LEFT) AND Mil.; language, please contact Laurie Beckelman, Vice CHAIRMAN H. PETER STERN. AND MRS. ROBERT GARDINER. The WMF board and staff contributions in Mrs. ISABELLE DE BROGLIE, WMF President, World Monuments Fund, 949 Park Avenue, mourn the death ofDaisy Cleveland's name, ear~ EOROPEAN REPRESENTATIVE, AND New York, New York 10028. Ifyau have already WMF TROSTEE PETER SlCHEL. 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