18 TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT

Mr. Connis Brown, of the Records Management Division, furth-
ered his knowledge of record keeping, by taking a course in "Automatic
Data Systems" at The American University. He followed this with a
course, at the same institution, on "The Systems Approach".

VISITS AND VISITORS

On August 5th, Dr. Radoff was a guest of Mr. Edward S. Corcoran,
of the Maryland Port Authority, for a trip on the "Port Welcome", to
visit the Baltimore Port installations, and on September 11th, he made
the first of many vists to the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.

The next month, he and Mr. Beach met with Judge Dulany Foster
to consult about the crowding of the Baltimore City Courthouse, and he
began in that month to make regular visits to the Homewood Friends
Meeting House, where a microfilm project was being conducted by
Ronald Saddler, of the Hall of Records staff. Phebe Jacobsen, as editor
of the catalogue of Quaker Records in Maryland, went to Homewood
often, as well as to Stony Run. Dr. Radoff also made several trips to
Baltimore, with Mrs. Carr, to continue work on the Maryland Guide.

Among the ceremonial visits, was the Ratification Day Ceremonies
held on January 14th. Mr. Skordas and Mrs. Jacobsen accompanied Dr.
Radoff.

Mr. Skordas participated in a panel discussion on "The Preserva-
tion of Antiquities" moderated by Mr. Nigel Wolf, for broadcast on
Radio Station WBAL.

Mr. Weatherly assumed certain public relation duties this year.
He represented the Hall of Records at the unveiling of a marker at
Fort Horn, he spoke to the Senior Class of Mergenthaler School in
Baltimore, and he attended a lecture at a church in Stevensville, deliv-
ered by John W. Sause. He was also present at the opening of the
Museum of History and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution.

Among the large number of visitors to the Hall of Records this
year there were many who came for the first time and some others who
had been here often before. We noted the following:

The Rev. Theodore H. Bailey, Vicar, Middleham Chapel, Calvert
County; George Beishlag, Professor of Geography, Towson State