A Chronology of Staff Activity since the last Hall of Records Commission Meeting:

August 15, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse and Archives staff met for the final group meeting of the summer interns.
August 29 -November 28, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse teaching the Legal History Seminar: Baltimore in the Civil War Era at the University of Maryland School of Law.
August 31, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse and members of the Research staff hosted a meeting of the Study of the Legacy of Slavery Advisory Board and a meeting of the Commission to Coordinate the Study, Commemoration & Impact of Slavery's History & Legacy in Maryland.
September 8, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse participated in a teleonference with the Historic St. Mary's City Research Committee.
September 9, 2011:
Dr. Papenfuse and Tim Baker met with Dean Barbara Contrum and Steve Anderso, regarding scanning project.
September 13, 2011:
Dr. Papenfuse and Appraisal staff traveled to the Prince George's County Circuit Court warehouse to assess flood damage and provide appraisal and conservation support.
September 23, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse, Sasha Lourie and Mimi Calver conducted a tour of the State House and presented a lecture in the Old Senate Chamber to members of the National Society of the Washington Family Descendants on Washington in Annapolis.
September 30, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse led a discussion on Primary Sources as part of a program of the Teaching American History initiative Roots of a Nation - a Chesapeake Journey, on Hometown History at the CV Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, Washington College.
October 1, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse, Maya Davis and Rachel Frazier presented a lecture on Former Maryland Slaves and the Treaty of Ghent at the Fifteenth National War of 1812 Symposium, The Civil War of 1812: War and Disquiet and the New Nation.
October 4, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse participated in a meeting of the Governor's Consulting Committee on the National Register Meeting, hosted at the Maryland State Archives.
October 5, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse, Sasha Lourie, and Elaine Rice Bachmann received a loan of Battle of Fort McHenry from Stiles Colwill, Doreen Bolger and Douglass Mann on behalf of Governor O'Malley.
October 12, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse, Tim Baker and Christine Alvey hosted a collaborative meeting regarding government information in the electronic era.
October 19, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse co-hosted, with the Johns Hopkins University Press, a gathering for Jane McWilliams's book.
October 24, 2011:
Dr. Papenfuse, Maya Davis and Rachel Frazier presented a lecture on Former Maryland Slaves and the Treaty of Ghent to the War of 1812 Anne Arundel County Workshop, held at the Maryland State Archives.
October 25, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse, Elaine Rice Bachmann and Mimi Calver presented a lecture in the Old Senate Chamber on George Washington's resignation speech to members of the Chief Executives Organization.
October 26, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse participated in a Publications Committee meeting at the Maryland Historical Society.
October 27, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse and Sasha Lourie participated in a tour of the State House Dome with Orlando Ridout, Marcia Miller, Earl Kelly, and a photographer from the Capital.
October 29, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse received the Historian Honors award from the Baltimore City Historical Society for his writings and for his efforts to revive the Baltimore City Archives
November 3 - December 15, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse teaching the Johns Hopkins University course Following the North Star: History and Stories of Slaves Escaping from Bondage in Maryland.
November 4, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse attended the MLA Advisory Board Meeting at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
November 10, 2011:
Dr. Papenfuse, Chris Haley and Owen Lourie attended the opening of the Civil Rights Exhibit at Morgan State University.

June 15, 2011: Sasha Lourie provided a curator's tour of Government House and the State House Caucus Room for the American Silver Guild.
June 15, 2011: Vicki Lee and Carrie Brady co-taught an Intergovernmental Preparedness for Essential Records (IPER) course, Records Emergency Planning and Response, with John Harding in Centreville.
June 15, 2011: Cecelia Smith attended the Structured Interview Workshop at the Baltimore City Community College.
June 16, 2011: Cecelia Smith attended Managing Medical Absences training at the Department of Budget & Management in Baltimore.
June 17, 2011:
Maria Day and Carrie Brady attended the George Peabody Library Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts conference, Out of the Ordinary: Preserving Paper-Based Ephemera.
June 17, 2011: Kathryn Baringer and James Watson met with Trish Trikeriotis, Baltimore City Circuit Court, regarding court proceedings archiving.
June 18, 2011: Maya Davis attended the Sixth Annual Juneteenth Seminar, by the African American Historical and Genealogical Society.
June 20, 2011: Summer interns attended Baltimore and War of 1812, a Summer Seminar presented by Ranger Scott Sheads of Fort McHenry National Park.
June 21, 2011:
Teresa Fawley and Cecelia Smith attended a meeting of the Agency Personnel Management Group at the Maryland Department of Transportation.
June 22, 2011: James Watson attended the Land Records Seminar at the Maryland Department of Planning, hosted by ESRI.
June 22, 2011: Tim Baker and Christine Alvey met by teleconference with Steve Anderson, Law Library, and Doug McElrath, regarding the Fall Summit meeting agenda.
June 22, 2011: Nassir Rezvan and Teresa Fawley attended a meeting of the Department of Budget and Management, regarding budget overviews.
June 23-27, 2011:
Dan Ramirez attended the Spectrum Leadership Institute and American Library Association's Annual 2011 Conference, New Orleans.
June 23, 2011:
Maria Day and Sasha Lourie attended the Four Rivers Heritage Area Networking Picnic at the Charles Carroll House, Annapolis.
June 23, 2011: Cecelia Smith and Chris Stewart attended the Equal Employment Opportunity Symposium at the Department of Housing and Community Development. 
June 24, 2011:
Elaine Rice Bachmann and Mimi Calver met with David Sympson, President General of the Sons of the American Revolution regarding fundraising efforts for the display of Washington's Resignation speech.
June 25, 2011: Chris Haley presented a lecture at the Kunte-Kinte - Alex Haley Foundation event concerning Family Genealogy
June 27, 2011:
Nancy Bramucci Sheads participated in the Howard County Teaching American History Summer Institute, at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
June 27, 2011:
Maya Davis led the viewing and post-screening discussion of an African American history film by Legacy of Slavery Staff and summer interns.
June
28, 2011: Maria Day and Rachel Frazier conducted a tour of the Archives and provided education program for the Next Step Program.
June 28, 2011: Vicki Lee attended the Guild of Book Workers Officers meeting at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
June 28, 2011:
James Watson met with the Baltimore County Circuit Court to discuss scanning microfilm and aperture cards.
June 29, 2011:
Sasha Lourie and Stephanie Bray conducted a tour of the State House for Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor and 13 guests.
June 30, 2011:
Chris Haley met with Aimee Poisson, Annapolis Maritime Museum, regarding the Blacks in Annapolis website and maritime photographs pertaining to Annapolis.
July 6, 2011:
Cecelia Smith and Teresa Fawley attended the Judiciary Education Conference Center, regarding leave bank form revision training.
July 8, 2011:
Kathryn Baringer met with John Pirro and Dick Ihrie, regarding Department of Budget Management and Diversity of Information Technology record retention and disposal
July 11, 2011:
Summer interns attended Nineteenth Century Baltimore: A City of Immigrants, presented by Professor Wayne R. Schaumburg, sponsored by the Maryland Humanities Council.
July 13, 2011: Sarah Patterson taught a class, Essential Records, to the Allegany County Department of Public Safety with Tom Wellman, Department of General Services.
July 14-16, 2011: Tim Baker attended the Council of State Archivists Business Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
July 18, 2011:
Tim Baker, Kevin Swanson, and Wei Yang met with a delegation from Anhui Province, including Governor Wang, regarding storage and access to Maryland land records.
July 19, 2011:
Tim Baker attended the National Digital Stewardship Alliance meeting in Washington DC.
July 19, 2011: Teresa Fawley and Cecelia Smith attended a meeting of the Agency Personnel Management Group at the Department of Housing and Community Development.
July 19, 2011:
Rob Schoeberlein attended the Maryland Historical Society Library Committee Meeting. 
July 19, 2011: Chris Haley presented on Discussing Sensitive History In and Out of the Classroom as part of a program of the Teaching American History initiative Roots of a Nation - a Chesapeake Journey, on Hometown History at the CV Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, Washington College
July 20, 2011: Tim Baker attended the National Digital Stewardship Alliance meeting, and an evening meeting of the Content Working Group, in Washington DC.
July 20, 2011:
Carrie Brady taught a class, Records Emergency Planning and Response, to the Allegany County Department of Public Safety.
July 20, 2011:
Teresa Fawley attended training on managing medical absences, at the Department of Budget and Management.
July 21, 2011: Tim Baker attended the National Digital Stewardship Alliance meeting at Washington DC.
July 22, 2011:
Chris Kintzel showed the portrait of James E. Ray Jr. [MSA SC 1545-1050] to a descendent.
July 25, 2011:
Maria Day met with Dr. Bunnemeyer regarding donation of photographs.
July 26, 2011: Tim Baker met with Wendy Napier and Bart Thomas at the Department of General Services, regarding land acquisition.
July 26, 2011: Joyce Phelps and James Watson met with the Maryland Transportation Authority to discuss records retention, transfer, and scanning issues.
July 27, 2011:
David Armenti presented on slavery in Maryland to forty-five teachers at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.
July 29, 2011: Rob Schoeberlein delivered the keynote speech on Riots To Relief & Beyond - Baltimore Unionist Women & the Civil War at the Society of Women in the Civil War Conference.
July 29, 2011: Chris Haley attended the EEO Complaint Assistance Pilot Program (ECAPP) meeting, at the Maryland Insurance Administration.
August 4, 2011: Maria Day met with Barry McKown, Sons of the American Revolution, regarding donations.
August 5, 2011: Sasha Lourie met with Dr. Henry Miller, Historic St. Mary's City, to examine two portraits of Leonard Calvert on display in the State House.
August 6, 2011: Stephanie Bray and Justin Gore provided a tour of the State House for members of the North American Vexillology Association.
August 8, 2011: Nancy Bramucci Sheads presented Bring Out Your Dead! Cemeteries Tombstones, and Historical Research in Nineteenth Century Maryland to the summer interns.
August 10, 2011: Carrie Brady, Maria Day, and Tony Roberts taught an IPER course, Essential Records, to the Maryland Emergency Management Agency.
August 11, 2011:
Elaine Rice Bachmann attended a meeting of the Maryland Commission on Public Art.
August 16, 2011: Maria Day met with Burt Kummerow and Bobby Neall, Maryland Historical Society, and John and Betty Colhoun, regarding the Cheston-Galloway Papers.
August 16, 2011: Maria Day met with Silas Hurry regarding Historic St. Mary's City records.
August 16, 2011: Stephanie Bray attended a meeting of the Four Rivers Heritage Area Education Committee.
August 16, 2011: Teresa Fawley and Cecelia Smith attended a meeting of the Agency Personnel Management Group at the Maryland Department of Transportation.
August 16, 2011: Tim Baker, Wei Yang, and James Watson attended a meeting of the Maryland State Geographic Information Committee's Technical Committee, regarding archiving GIS data.
August 17, 2011:  Maria Day met with Barry McKown to received donation of Duvall Society volumes.
August 17, 2011: Chris Haley attended an IPER course, Essential Records, the Maryland Emergency Management Agency, in preparation for teaching IPER courses.
August 18, 2011: Tim Baker, Rob Schoeberlein, and James Watson hosted a meeting of the Historic Map Committee.
August 18, 2011: Tim Baker and James Watson met with Lamere Hennessee, regarding (1) Maryland Geological Survey project to develop finding aid for Archives' early air photos, (2) Agenda for next MGS Data Preservation Advisory Panel meeting, and (3) options for MGS re: long-term storage of large digital data sets via UMBC site.
August 19, 2011:
Maria Day met with Chuck Cochran, WBAL photographer, regarding photography of Marvin Mandel photos.
August 19, 2011: Tim Baker participated in a teleconference regarding electronic state records.
August 23, 2011: Vicki Lee attended the Guild of Book Workers Officers meeting at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
September 7, 2011:
Joyce Phelps and Carrie Brady visited Carroll County Courthouse to appraise records.
September 8, 2011:
Rob Schoeberlein attended the celebration of Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City, at the Langsdale Library, University of Baltimore.
September 8, 2011: Kathryn Baringer participated in a teleconference with the Town of St. Michaels, regarding record management.
September 12, 2011:
Chris Haley, Rachel Frazier, and David Armenti met with Patricia Anderson, Dustin Meeker, and Kristin Schenning at the Maryland Historical Society, regarding outreach, Maryland Colonization Society film, and Department of Education grant requirements.
September 12, 2011: Rob Schoeberlein attended the Maryland Historical Society Library Committee Meeting.
September 12, 2011: Richard Richardson met in the Search Room with Carroll County Historical Society volunteers, regarding processing Carroll County Probate Records.
September 12, 2011: Stephanie Baringer attended the Four Rivers Heritage Area Stakeholder Briefing, Annapolis.
September 13, 2011: Michael McCormick attended a meeting of the Chesapeake Chapter, Maryland Society of Surveyors.
September 14, 2011:
Maria Day taught an IPER course, Essential Records, at the Prince George's County Office of Homeland Security.
September 14, 2011: Cecelia Smith attended the Maryland Charity Campaign Training at the State Center, Baltimore.
September 14, 2011:
Stephanie Baringer attended a Maryland Day planning meeting at the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Conference and Visitors Bureau.
September 14, 2011:
 Richard Richardson and Michael McCormick met with Sister Betty Ann McNeil, Archivist at the Daughters of Charity, for a tour of the Archives' storage shelving.
September 15, 2011:
Cecelia Smith and Teresa Fawley attended the Statewide Personnel Townhall Meeting at the Department of Budget and Management.
September 15, 2011: Michael McCormick, Dan Ramirez, and Chris Schini provided a tour of the Archives for twenty-eight students from the Judiciary's Court Professional Certificate Program.
September 15-16:
Chris Kintzel represented Chief Judge Bell and Dr. Papenfuse at the State and Federal Court Historical Societies' meeting held in conjunction with the AASLH Annual Meeting.
September 16, 2011:
Rachel Frazier and Krystal Appiah attended the Fall Washington Early American Seminar at the University of Maryland College Park.
September 20, 2011: Maria Day  met with Glenn Campbell, Historic Annapolis Foundation, regarding donation of an 18th-century record.
September 20, 2011: Dottie Zimmerman attended a workshop on new program guidelines and changes from ARI to PHH for fleet maintenance and repair services.
September 20, 2011: Teresa Fawley and Cecelia Smith attended a meeting of the Agency Personnel Management Group at the Department of Housing and Community Development.
September 21-22, 2011: Cecelia Smith attended the 18th Annual Mid-Atlantic Americans with Disabilities Act Update.
September 21, 2011: Vicki Lee and Carrie Brady attended IPER training at the Fire Services Building.
September 22, 2011:
Sasha Lourie provided a tour of the furnishings in Government Hosue to Katherine Crosby, Jenkins Baer Associates, and Mendy O'Malley.
September 22, 2011: Maria Day and Carrie Brady presented on disaster planning to the Montgomery County Register of Wills.
September 22, 2011: James W. met with the Town St. Michaels about records retention issues and potential scanning projects.
September 23-24, 2011:
Jenn Cruickshank attended Revealing Lost Content: Low-Tech Digital Forensics for the Bench Conservator, Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies, Mt. Carroll, Illinois.
September 23, 2011: Krystal Appiah attended the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School to attend the 2011 Back to School with the HistoryMakers.
September 26-27, 2011:
Tim Baker and Wei Yang attended a meeting of at the Library of Congress, regarding Designing Storage Architecture for Digital Collections.
September 26-28, 2011: Cecelia Smith attended Mental Health First Aid Training, at the Maryland Military Department, 5th Regiment Armory, Baltimore.
September 27, 2011: Carrie Brady reviewed the University of Maryland Archives, College Park.
September
28, 2011: Nassir Resvan attended the Minority Business Enterprise Liaisons Meeting.
September 28, 2011: Teresa Fawley attended the SPS Liaison Meeting at the Department of Budget and Management.
September 30, 2011: Chris Haley presented on Discussing Sensitive History In and Oot of the Classroom as part of a program of the Teaching American History initiative Roots of a Nation - a Chesapeake Journey, on Hometown History at the CV Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, Washington College.
October 3, 2011: Elaine Rice Bachmann and Mimi Calver provided a curator's tour of State House and Government House to Hope Cooke.
October 3, 2011:
James Watson met with the Anne Arundel Circuit Court, regarding Criminal Department use of PaperVision.
October 4, 2011:
Tim Baker and Kathryn Baringer participated in a meeting regarding the Montgomery County Electronic Records Management System.
October 4, 2011: Rob Schoeberlein attended NARA Security training and library walkthrough at the Maryland Historical Society.
October 4, 2011:
Elaine Rice Bachmann, Sasha Lourie and Chris Kintzel met with Jim Abbott and Travers Nelson from Evergreen House and Johns Hopkins University regarding the installation of mist fire suppression in the State House.
October 4, 2011:
Dottie Zimmerman attended PHH InterActive Training in Annapolis.
October 5, 2011: James Watson meet with Mr. Robert Duckworth at the Anne Arundel Circuit Court regarding the planned electronic case management system.
October 6, 2011:
Tim Baker, Kevin Swanson, Kathryn Baringer, and Carrie Brady visited the Prince George's County Courthouse, regarding inventory and protocols.
October 7, 2011:
Elaine Rice Bachmann met with Mark Croatti, Adjunct Professor, U.S. Naval Academy; John Cohen, Mayor of Annapolis; and members of the Mayor's staff regarding a proposed Continental Congress center in Annapolis.
October 8, 2011:
Rob Schoeberlein presented to the Homewood Retirement Community on family history resources available at the Baltimore City Archives.
October 11, 2011:
James Watson, Allison Rein, and James Watson met with the Towson University Library to discuss scanning of student newspapers.
October 12-14, 2011:
Chris Kintzel participated in a collections management activity at Fells Point Preservation Society, organized by the Mid Atlantic Association of Museums' "White Gloves Gang."
October 13, 2011: James Watson, Carrie Brady, and Christian Skipper conducted an image review of AA Papervision with Anne Arundel Circuit Court staff.
October 14, 2011:
David Armenti presented on the history of slavery in Maryland at the Baltimore City College High School, for the 12th-grade, African American history class.
October 12, 2011: Teresa Fawley attended Mental HeaJack Holmes, 410-516-6928 lth First Aid Training at the Department of Transportation Headquarters.
October 17-19, 2011: Reggie Shorter attended training at the CommVault Administration in Washington DC.
October 18, 2011:
Kathryn Baringer and Christian Skipper met with the Garrett Park Archives to discuss their archival concerns.
October 19, 2011:
Rachel Frazier and Tanner Sparks attended the National Parks Service Underground Railroad Gathering at the Great Falls National Park. Rachel presented on the War of 1812, Tanner on USCT pension files from Eastern Shore soldiers.
October 19, 2011: Stephanie Smith attended the Archive-It Partner Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky.
October 20, 2011: Maria Day and Allison Rein met with Kevin Hemstock, Editor of the Kent County News, in Chestertown, regarding newspaper scanning.
October 20-21, 2011:
Tim Baker attended the Digital Archiving Best Practices Exchange 2011 in Lexington, Kentucky.
October 23, 2011:
Maya Davis was interviewed by Barbara Tagger, regarding the Harriet Tubman Byways Project.
October 24, 2011: Chris Haley, David Armenti, Tanner Sparks, and Krystal Appiah installed the traveling exhibit, Flee! Stories of Flight from Maryland in Black and White, at the Banneker-Douglass Museum.
October 26, 2011: Tim Baker presented at the Maryland Association of Counties' Annual Administrators and Attorneys Conference, regarding: best practices for records retention and preservation.
October 26, 2011: Chris Haley attended the Carroll's Hundred Fall Conference: Saving Sacred Ground at Carroll's Hundred, hosted by Johns Hopkins University.
October 26, 2011: Carrie Brady and Christian Skipper visited the Kent County Courthouse and Register of Wills to inventory records for transfer.
October 27, 2011:
Chris Haley and David Armenti installed the traveling exhibit, Flee! Stories of Flight from Maryland in Black and White, at the Maryland Historical Society.
October 27-28, 2011: Sasha Lourie attended an advisory board meeting of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.
October 28, 2011: Rob Schoeberlein participated in the panel discussion on Baltimore's Civil War Women, and presented on Secessionist Women and the Southern Relief Fair of 1866. Southern Historical Association's 77th Annual Meeting.
October 28, 2011: Wei Yang attended the Daly Technology Showcase and Seminars at the BWI Airport Marriott.
October 29, 2011:
Vicki Lee attended the Havre de Grace War of 1812 Community History Day, St. Patricks Parish Hall.
October 31, 2011:
Cecelia Smith attended the Retirement Coordinator Fall Training at the Department of Agriculture.
November 1, 2011:
Chris Haley and Rachel Frazier presented at the Maryland Abolition Reception at the Banneker-Douglas Museum, featuring a reception for the Maryland State Archives' traveling exhibit, Flee! Stories of Flight from Maryland in Black and White.
November 1, 2011: Maya Davis participated in the "Market Place of Ideas," for the War of 1812 program, at Oxon Cove Park, Oxon Hill.
November 2, 2011: Maya Davis attended the "Chesapeake Campaign" talks and tours, for the War of 1812 program, Oxon Cove Park, Oxon Hill, to 
November 2, 2011: Sasha Lourie provided a curator's tour to the Antiques Club of Austin, Texas.
November 2, 2011:
Kathryn Baringer met with the Prince George's County Board of Education to discuss their Records Management Policy.
November 2, 2011:
David Armenti and Tanner Sparks attended the Lunch and Learn Lecture on Samuel Green, featuring speaker Rick Blondo, at the Reginald F Lewis Museum.
November 2-3, 2011: Maria Day attended the Conference on the History and Preservation of Maps, at Philadelphia.
November 3, 2011: Maya Davis presented on Slavery and the War of 1812 in Maryland, with a focus on Prince George's County, for the War of 1812 program.
November 4, 2011: Chris Kintzel attended an insurance workshop organized by the Maryland Department of the Treasury.
November 4, 2011: Christian Skipper and James Watson reviewed the Montgomery County Archives review.
November 4, 2011:
Maya Davis participated in talks and tours in Greenbelt, regarding the Defense of Baltimore, for the War of 1812 program
November 8, 2011:
Kathryn Baringer and Christian Skipper made a records management presentation at the Chevy Chase Village Hall.
November 9, 2011:
Tim Baker, Elaine Rice Bachmann, Sasha Lourie, and Archives staff participated in a meeting of the Artistic Property Commission.
November 9, 2011: David Armenti participated in the Somerset County Historical Society Teacher's Workshop with Maryland Historical Society. Done Dustin Meeker of the Maryland Historical Society.

(For Courses taught and lectures given by the State Archivist see resolution of 4/19/2000)