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The Assistant Records Administrator and the Records Examiner
also participated in the Clerks Seminar in Bowie and in Columbia
and Mr. Brown also attended a seminar of the Registers of Wills
Association in Annapolis.

Mr. Beach read a paper before the meeting of the Society
of American Archivists entitled "Computer-Related Microfilm
Program." Mr. Brown served on the Records Management Com-
mittee of the Society during the year.

Mr. Brown spoke to the Capital Chapter of the National
Microfilm Association in Washington. His paper "Microfilm at a
Turn in the Road" was subsequently published in The Journal of
Micrographics. Mr. Brown also delivered a paper at 'the Annual
Convention of the Microfilm Association in San Francisco entitled
"Three Microfilm Applications at the Maryland Hall of Records."

VISITORS

In addition to the genealogists, both professional and amateur
who visited the Hall of Records in the usual large numbers, we
were pleased to have so many young scholars working for the
doctor's or master's degrees. We have tried to list them below,
with the subject of their proposed work. Many of them were
interested in the Revolutionary era, reflecting the revival of
interest in this period, perhaps anticipating the 200th anniver-
sary of the Declaration of Independence to be celebrated in 1976.

Anne Alden, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, The
Johns Hopkins University, "Loyalists in Maryland"; Jay D.
Alien, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of
Maryland, "Mount Savage Iron Works"; Madeline Allison, M.A.,
Department of Geography, University of Maryland, "Geography
of Annapolis, 1750-1970"; Jean H. Baker, Ph.D. Candidate, De-
partment of History, The Johns Hopkins University, "Political
Parties during the Civil War"; Shirley Baltz, Researcher, An-
napolis Project, National Endowment for the Humanities, His-
toric Annapolis, Inc.; L. D. Bartlett, M.A. Candidate, University
of Delaware, "John Shaw, Cabinetmaker"; Tyler Bastian, State
Archeologist, Maryland Geological Survey, "Promising Arche-
ological Sites in Maryland";

Silvio Bedim, Smithonian Institution, "Benjamin Banneker,
His Life and Work"; Guennadi Belov, Director General of Ar-