10 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL RELATIONS

VISITS AND VISITORS

Foreign visitors to the Hall of Records during the past year included
M. Marcel Baudot, Inspector General of the French National Archives,
and Dr. Hector G. Chuecos, Director of the Archives of Venezuela. Among
the students in the classes in archival administration, whose names are listed
in full here below, there were several from Canada. There was also one
member of the staff of the newly established Archives of Israel. Other
visitors included Dr. Wayne C. Grover, Archivist of the United States,
Dr. Oliver W. Holmes, Dr. Philip M. Hamer, and Dr. Daniel F. Noll of
the staff of the National Archives, Dr. Roscoe R. Hill, and Dr. Daniel M.
Robison, recently appointed as Archivist of Tennessee. Dr. Ernst Posner,
Director of the School of Social Sciences and Public Affairs of American
University, brought his winter-term class to inspect the Hall of Records,
May 24, 1950.

Several members of the Hall of Records staff visited other archival
establishments. John P. Hively, Editorial Assistant, represented us at the
opening and blessing of the Department of Archives and Manuscripts of
Catholic University, December 8, 1949. The Archivist and Mr. Skordas
attended the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists held at
Quebec, September 19-20, 1949. The program there included a visit to the
Archives of the Province of Quebec. The Archivist also spent several days
in Williamsburg studying the records upon which the restorations are based.
Mr. Thomas was present at the joint meeting of the Society of American
Archivists and the American Historical Association in Boston, December
27-30. Mr. Thomas also visited the Burton Historical Collection in Detroit,
the Clements Library in Ann Arbor and the Manuscript Division of the
New York Public Library. The purpose of this visiting back and forth is
to make it possible for us to keep informed of new methods and procedures
in record keeping.

REVIEWS

The work of the repair department of the Hall of Records was favorably
reviewed in an article which appeared in the Baltimore Sunday Sun,
November 6. The photographs in this article, the work of Aubrey Bodine,
were excellent. In an article devoted to Annapolis which appeared in the
Saturday Evening Post for June 12, 1950, the Hall of Records and the