20 TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT

Administration spent the day at the Hall of Records where they were
given an account of the history of the building and a summary of our
activities. Those who attended were: Robert D. Brinker, Joan V.
Caulfield, Bogomir Chokel, Helen Finneran, William Lee Jennings,
James W. Johnson, Richard A. Long, Charles E. Moyer, Alcira Ruiz-
Larre, Eulis J. Smith, Pascal M. Varieur.

The following students of the Thirteenth Annual Institute in the
Preservation and Administration of Archives attended classes at the
Hall of Records on June 26, 1959: Rita M. Draina, Records Manage-
ment Analyst in the Federal Government; Elizabeth S. Duvall, Assistant
to the Director, Smith College Archives; Marjorie V. Edwards, Curator,
Swarthmore Peace Collection; Melvin Gingerich, Archivist, Mennonite
Church, Goshen College; William J. Gray, Records Management
Company of Canada; Mr. Santoso, Secretary to the President of
Indonesia; Edwin Schell, President, Methodist Historical Society of
the Baltimore Conference; Laurore St. Juste, Director, Haitian Na-
tional Archives; Kee Mook Kim, official in Korean Government:
Grace Quimby, Librarian, The National Archives.

Mr. Saunders took an evening course (February-June 1959) in
electronic computers at The American University in Washington.

VISITS AND VISITORS

Among the many visitors to the Hall of Records there were some
whose work or mission here were of especial interest to us. lan Mac-
lean, Archivist of the Commonwealth Library of Australia, spent a
day at the Hall of Records. He was especially interested in Records
Management and some evidence of his visit is found in a paper he has
published on the subject. Edward M. Riley, Director of Research, and
Marcus Whiffen, Architectural Historian, of Colonial Williamsburg,
came to study our work in the history of Maryland courthouses with
the hope of getting help in their restoration of the Williamsburg court-
house. The President of the Methodist Historical Society of the
Baltimore Conference, the Reverend Edwin Schell, came to discuss
common problems of recordkeeping. As a result of this visit we were
able to procure microfilm copies of the early Methodist records listed
elsewhere in this Report.

Arthur Pierce Middleton, distinguished historian of the Chesapeake
Bay area, visited Annapolis and the Hall of Records on the occasion
of his receiving a well-merited award from Historic Annapolis, Incor-
porated. Professor J. R. Pole of University College, London, who has