10 THIRTEENTPI ANNUAL REPORT

PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL RELATIONS

As in the past, the Hall of Records was host this year to a dis-
tinguished group of visitors from this country and from abroad who
came to inspect our plant and to observe our work. Those who came
from foreign countries were Purnendu Basu, of the Imperial Record
Office, New Delhi, India; Luis Gonzalo Patrizi, of the National Arch-
ives of Venezuela at Caracas; and Atilio Giacoso Bertoli, who holds
a similar position in the record office of Uruguay at San Jose.

Several of the American visitors were from institutions of other
states now planning new archival or library facilities. We are especially
pleased that the Hall of Records remains a model for so many new
installations. Among the visitors from such public or quasi-public
institutions in other states were J. Edward Boell, the newly-appointed
Archivist of Wisconsin; L. Garrett Myers, Superintendent of the
Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints at Salt Lake City, and Mary Thornton and Elizabeth H. Gotten
of the University of North Carolina Library.

Some other visitors were Nellie M. Coats of the Indiana State
Library at Indianapolis; Albert B. Corey, Historian of the State of
New York; Leon de Valinger, Archivist of Delaware; J. H. Easterby,
Archivist of South Carolina and R. L. Meriwether, President of the
Archives Commission of that State; and Russell F. Barnes, Secretary
of the Minnesota Historical Society.

Among the visitors from Washington, D. C., were Father James
J. Kortendick, head of the Department of Library Science of Catholic
University and Ferdinand Zach, who is his assistant in the binding
division; Roscoe R. Hill, the distinguished specialist in Spanish Ameri-
can Affairs and the retired chief of State Department Archives of
the National Archives; Ernst Posner, Dean of the Graduate School
of American University; F. L. Belin, Vice-President of the National
Art Gallery; and Victor Gondos and Daniel F. Noll of the National
Archives Division of Microphotography.

On the occasion of the Inauguration of John S. Kieffer as Presi-
dent of the St, John's College, October 25, 1947, the Hall of Records
prepared a special exhibit of materials having to do with the history
of the College. This exhibit was well-attended, and it aroused a good