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Vol. 26:3 ISSN 0160-8460 September 1998
Staff Activities
Laurie A. Baty completed the Women's Executive Leadership Program, a 12-month program that provides management and leadership training. As part of this program, she had two temporary details, one to the office of NARA's Web pagemaster, the other to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History as development coordinator for the Scurlock Collection, which consists of images produced by a 20th-century African-American photographic studio in Washington, DC. Laurie completed a two-year tenure as chair of the Society of American Archivists' Committee on the Status of Women, and oversaw the Committee's transformation into the Women's Professional Archival Interests Roundtable. She continues to edit Views, the newsletter of the SAA's Visual Materials Section, and to serve on the SAA Publications Board and the Academy of Certified Archivists' Exam Development Committee.
Mary A. Giunta served as panel coordinator and chair of a session entitled "An Emerging Nation in World Affairs: The Visions of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and John Jay, 1781-1789," at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in April 1998. She served as panel coordinator and presented a paper entitled "The Development of Statecraft in the Emerging Nation, 1775-1778," at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, held in College Park, MD, in June 1998. Mary also served as panel coordinator and chair of a session entitled "James Monroe and John Quincy Adams: Restrained Nationalists," at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, held in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in July 1998.
J. Dane Hartgrove served as commentator for a session entitled "An Emerging Nation in World Affairs: The Visions of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and John Jay," at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in April 1998. He also presented a paper entitled "The Role of Commerce in the Anglo-American Peace Negotiations of 1782-1783," at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, held in College Park, Maryland, in June 1998.
