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Date: Wed, 2 May 101 16:38:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christopher Baruth <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Holzheimer AGS Sesquicentennial Symposium
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                        MAPS AND AMERICA
              The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series

                      Maps and Milestones:
                  a Sesquicentennial Symposium
                            on the
                 American Geographical Society
                           1851-2001

                      Friday, May 18, 2001
            American Geographical Society Collection
                       Golda Meir Library
               University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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                            Program

1:00 Welcome. John Wanat, Provost & Vice Chancellor, UWM, Peter
Watson-Boone, Director, Golda Meir Library, Christopher Baruth,
Curator, AGS Collection

1:15 AGS Exploration: A Century on the Frontiers. Dr. Jerome E. Dobson,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Director of Exploration, AGS

1:45 The AGS Cartographic Collections. Dr. Christopher Baruth, Curator,
AGS Collection

2:15 The History of Cartography at the American Geographical Society.
Miklos Pinther, United Nations (Retired)

3:00 BREAK

3:30 The Archives of the American Geographical Society. James Thomas,
Programs Coordinator, American Geographical Society

4:00 The Inquiry, the Paris Peace Conference and the AGS. Dr. Geoffrey
J.  Martin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Southern Connecticut
University

4:45 AGS: Continuity and Change. Mary Lynne Bird, Executive Director,
American Geographical Society

5:00 Reception (Fourth Floor Conference Center)

5:30 Banquet ($35 per person: call (414) 229-6282 or 1-800-558-8993 or
email: [log in to unmask])

6:15 Banquet address: Maps and Their Makers: A Sense of Where We Are.
John Noble Wilford, Senior science correspondent, New York Times & AGS
Councillor

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                          Sponsored by
                  Arthur and Janet Holzheimer

                        Co-Sponsored by
             The Friends of the Golda Meir Library
               Lectures free and open to the public

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