AI c Newsletter Published Jour times a year by THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC AND ARTISTIC WORKS Volume 9, Number 1 November 1983 The committee is making arrangements for access to the Los Angeles County Museum, The Huntington Library, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and hopefully, AIC NEWS the Norton Simon Museum on Wednesday, 16 May. Other museum visits will have to be arranged on an individual basis. The agency arranging all the tours PROGRAM UPDATE -ANNUAL MEETING will have a representative at the hotel to deal with LOS ANGELES - MAY 15-20, 1984 all travel inquiries. If you have any questions or special needs, please A seminar on Protein Chemistry, organized by write or telephone the co-chairs below: CAROLYN ROSE, Objects Specialty Group, will take place on Tuesday, May 15. On Wednesday there will VICTORIA BLYTH-HILL BARBARA ROBERTS be tours of local museums and conservation labora- LA County Museum of Art J. P. Getty Museum tories, set up by the Local Arrangements Committee, Conservation Center Malibu, CA 90406 Co-chairs VICTORIA BLYTH-HILL and BARBARA Los Angeles, CA 90036 213-459-2306 ROBERTS. From the replies to the Questionnaire on 213-857-6167 the annual meeting it is evident that members regard laboratory tours as an important and valuable part of IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE the meeting, and the majority of those responding to NEW POLICY ON RENEWALS the questionnaire preferred not to have lab tours coincide with pre-meeting seminars. Selected Student Due to a continuing problem with a fairly large Papers will be given late Wednesday afternoon. The percentage of the membership (about one-third) either General Session will start Thursday morning; accept- paying dues late every year, or forgetting altogether, ances of papers will be mailed out on December 1. A a new policy has been put into effect. This has been special session, with panel discussion, on certification announced in previous newsletters, and at the annual organized with the help of the Accreditation and meeting. Notices will continue to be sent out in Certification Committee, will be held sometime Thursday early January. (1984 dues will be prorated since our or Friday. Saturday and Sunday will be devoted to fiscal year will become the calendar year.) A due Specialty Group meetings: Paintings, Objects and date will appear on the renewal form. Anyone not Photographic Materials on Saturday; Textiles, Book paying by the due date will receive a second notice & Paper and Furniture & Wooden Objects on Sunday. with thirty days to pay. If payment is not received, Poster Sessions this year will again be chaired by the member will be placed on an inactive list and will SHELLEY STURMAN. For detailed program see the (continued page 2, column 1) January 1984 issue of the Newsletter. ELISABETH WEST FITZHUGH Program Chair FAIC NEWS WHY LOS ANGELES? In keeping with its policy to assist AIC membership in efforts to upgrade skills, FAIC hopes to provide San Diego is so beautiful and so popular that the limited monetary support toward expenses of those hotels will only negotiate hotel room rates 12 months participating in the January 16-March 16, 1984 JAPAN- prior to the meeting. Many associations regularly ESE SCREEN SEMINAR to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii. meet there, and pay rates much higher than we are Will selected participants who require financial aid accustomed to. The rates offered us were just too please include budget of their anticipated peripheral high, so we moved to the Los Angeles hotel offering costs as well as estimated round trip air fares in any rates we felt the membership would be more comfortable appeal for FAIC assistance? Address request with with. data to: C. K. KECK, Executive Director, FAIC, 31 River Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326. UPDATE ON THE LOS ANGELES MEETING FROM THE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE CAROLINE K. KECK The next AIC Newsletter will contain announce- KNOW WHAT YOU SEE ments about the full program that the committee is formulating. We just want to remind everyone that This interesting and informative conservation events will require pre-registration and you should exhibit has just completed its schedule at the Fitchburg begin to think about your travel arrangements for Art Museum in Fitchburg, MA. It is now available for next May. The conference hotel will be the Biltmore loan for the first time in some time. For information which is located in the heart of downtown, near many contact: Susan Schreiber, SITES, Smithsonian Inst., restaurants and a flourishing art gallery scene. A & I 2170, Washington, D.C. 20560. (202-357-3168) The pre-conference package tour will include a coastal trip to the Hearst Castle for a full day, and an overnight trip to San Diego, The Balboa Art Conserva- The AIC /FAIC Board of Directors will next meet at tion Center and Tia Juana. the National Office on 12-13 December, 1983 not receive any mail until dues, late and reinstatement NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS fees are received. We can no longer afford to send Journals, Newsletters, Directories, and other mailings At the general meeting in Baltimore, the following to members who do not pay dues. Many people were officers and directors were elected: PIETER MEYERS, placed on this inactive list just before the mailing of President; ELISABETH WEST FITZ HUGH, Vice this Newsletter. All members were sent the renewal President; CAROL AIKEN, Secretary; MARY TODD for 1983 in January 1983, second notices were sent out G LASER, Treasurer. TERRY DRAYMAN WEISSER in July, and included in the Call for Papers was a blue and SHELLEY STURMAN continue terms as Directors, notice addressed to "some of you..."-, few people who MARY LOU WHITE was elected to the vacant Director's owed dues responded, but about 200 who had paid seat. CAROLINE K. KECK will continue as FAIC called! Over 100 sent checks that had to be returned Executive Director. to them. If you are reading someone else's copy of This was the year to elect the AIC representative this Newsletter because you didn't get yours, please from the private sector to the National Institute for call us. We will tell you how much you owe. Conservation. BARBARA BEARDSLEY was re-elected for a two year term. A PLEA FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE AIC COMMITTEES AND MEMBERS When you call, please remember that we now live Board of Examiners (BOE) in a large multi-storied house. We do not have phones MARILYN WEIDNER, Chair 215-545-0613 all over, and sometimes have to run up or down a MARGARET FIKIORIS 215-444-5621 flight of stairs; four rings is not enough. MARIAN PECK DIRDA 202-287-5635 When you send, or have sent, payment for dues ANNE F. CLAPP 302-658-0828 or publications, it is imperative that we have either JONATHAN ARNEY 412-772-3679 your name, our invoice number or a letter/renewal One vacancy on committee form from you. Too many institutions routinely put a check in an envelope with no identification. To insure Bylaws proper credit, you may have to "walk through" a SIAN JONES, Chair 301-547-9000 request for funds from your museum. Insist that they ELISABETH PACKARD 301-252-6989 send the invoice or renewal with payment. NANCY HEUGH 816-561-4000 PAULINE MOHR 415-863-8800 Many thanks from the office staff. Certification & Accreditation BOOK BOOTH AT ANNUAL MEETING BARBARA APPELBAUM, Chair 212-666-4630 BARBARA ROBERTS 213-459-2306 This year we hope to be able to sell books that are LINDA MERK 617-492-2680 on display. Send your suggestions for titles to JODY JOYCE ZUCKER 518-237-8090 DE VOLL at the AIC office. We would like to hear from CRAIGEN BOWEN 617-495-2392 you before January 1. We expect to have titles that PAUL N.BANKS 212-280-4178 have appeared in the AIC Newsletter during the past year, plus any suggestions from you. Call us! Conservation and the Handicapped CATHERINE MC LEAN, Chair 213-937-4250 Please note a change in all deadline dates. This change MARGARET FIKIORIS 215-444-5621 will assist the Newsletter staff in its efforts to get each issue to the membership on time. Ethics & Standards ELEANOR MC MILLAN 202-287-3700 BARBARA BEARDSLEY 603-895-2639 THOM GENTLE 216-775-7331 The AIC NEWSLETTER is published quarterly MEG CRAFT 302-656-8591 in Washington, D.C. 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