In order to conduct this project as equitably as possible and to the highest standards, the US/ICOMOS Board of Trustees will appoint a management committee to oversee US/ICOMOS involvement in the Jordan CERM. The committee will be composed of members with proven and supervisory expertise.

A second committee will be constituted by the Board of Trustees composed of members with demonstrated expertise in specific areas of preservation, conservation and management who will act as a jury of peers to select the sub-contractors from among the US/ICOMOS members offering their services. Members of this committee will be selected from among US/ICOMOS members who will not be competing for project sub- contracts.

It is expected that initial sub-contracts will be negotiated in the first half of 1996. Members are urged to respond promptly to this call for c.v.'s.

Patrons for the meeting were the Minister of Culture and the Arts of the Republic of Poland, the Director General of UNESCO and the Mayor of the City of Cracow. The meeting and symposium were organized by the Polish National Committee of ICOMOS and the International Centre, Cracow.

Among the documents presented at the meeting was a list of participants in the Constituent Assembly of ICOMOS held in Warsaw and Cracow, June 20-27, 1965. US/ICOMOS was pleased to note that all of the U.S. participants are today Fellows of US/ICOMOS and still involved in the national and inter-national work of the organization. They are Professor Carl Feiss, Robert Garvey, Richard H. Howland, Charles Peterson and Hiroshi Daifuku. No other national committee can boast such a sustained level of interest and participation on the part of its founding members. Of the founders of ICOMOS at Cracow in 1965, two participated in the September 1995 meetings as well. They are Professor Raymond Lemaire (Belgium), former Secretary General and former President of ICOMOS, and Architect Carlos Flores Marini (Mexico), current Chairman of ICOMOS Mexico.

A Call for Papers was published in ICOMOS News and a second Call for Papers will be issued shortly to all National and International Scientific Committees of ICOMOS.

The growth and direction of the program reflects the evolution of the ICOMOS and the world geopolitical and economic situation, as well as the specific interests of our funding sources. Initially, interns came exclusively from western Europe -- the G5 countries, to be exact, which was the definition of the focus group in the USIA grant that sustained the program in the first years. Later, the Soviet Union and several East Bloc countries were assimilated into the program. Gradually, interns were accepted from farther afield; South and Central America were represented, as well as the Middle East. Other more diverse positions were created: a World Heritage internship at the Paris UNESCO-ICOMOS Documentation Centre, exchanges with India and Israel.

In 1995, the program expanded on several fronts, in great part thanks to the special grant awarded by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. This grant was to be applied to promote diversity and to create new exchanges which required assistance.

Through this grant, US/ICOMOS achieved several firsts: the first exchange with Africa between the US and Ghana; the first exchange with Turkey; the first internship in underwater archaeology; and the first placement at a private, nonprofit community-based organization.

Along with Cornerstones in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a second nonprofit, the Historic Charleston Foundation, participated in the Ghana exchange.

None of this would be possible without the strong commitment to the program shown by several dedicated donors. The Marpat Foundation, the L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, the Montauk Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation have provided the core funding for the US/ICOMOS International Summer Intern program for many years. It is their constant sponsorship that has allowed the program to grow and develop as opportunities presented themselves. Other exchanges exist thanks to the devoted sponsorship of foundations such as the American Friends of English Heritage and the Royal Oak Foundation, which have nurtured the US-UK exchange.

Our major institutional partner is the National Park Service. HABS/HAER has formed the backbone of the program since the pilot year and continues its strong participation. Many other offices and divisions of the NPS (in 1995, National Capital Region, Alaska Region, Mid-Atlantic Region, Williamsport Preservation Training Center, Denver Service Center, Southwest Region) have offered positions under the direction of the regional historical architects and the cultural resource managers to provide a wide variety of challenging and instructive projects.

The program is successful because of the caliber of the interns competitively selected by their own ICOMOS national committee chairmen and by the US/ICOMOS professional jury. The national committee chairmen, their staffs, and all the professional staff in the U.S. and abroad, who guide and direct the interns, are responsible for the great achievement of the program. Their dedication to the field and to the these young professionals ensures the high quality of the internships.

The individuals and institutions that lend their direct and in-kind financial support, their moral support, their expertise and their warm hospitality are too numerous to cite here, but they all are offered the most heartfelt thanks of the US/ICOMOS Board of Trustees and staff.

Interns participating in 1995:

• Mr. Nicholas Kwame Afadzi of the Technical University, Kumasi, GHANA, assigned to The Historic Charleston Foundation, Charleston, South Carolina;

   

• Ms. Magdalena Malgorzata Bielecka of the Centre for the Preservation of Historic Landscapes, POLAND, assigned to the HAER recording project at Colonial Parkway, Yorktown, Virginia;

   

• Mr. Benjamin Briggs of High Point, North Carolina, USA, assigned to the Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra;

   

• Ms. Gabriela Esther Brizuela, of Jalapa, MEXICO, assigned to the Cornerstones Community Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico;

   

• Ms. Catherine Elizabeth Cassidy of Princeton, New Jersey, USA, assigned to the National Palaces Organization & Yildiz Technical University, Turkey;

   

• Ms. Jill Cremer of New York City, USA, assigned to the Institute for Monuments, Banska Stiavnika, Slovak Republic;

   

• Ms. Sarah Frédérique Desbiens of Montréal, CANADA, assigned to the HAER recording team at Acadia National Park, Roads and Bridges Survey, Bar Harbor, Maine;

   

• Mr. Volodymyr Dumalsky of Lviv Polytechnic University, Lviv, UKRAINE, assigned to the HABS recording project at the Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut;

   

• Mr. Arpad Furu of Cluj Napoca, ROMANIA, assigned to the HABS recording team at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia;

   

• Mr. Ivan Alberto Galindo of Santafé de Bogota, COLOMBIA, assigned to the recording of Anaktuvuk Pass, Artic Circle, Alaska Regional Office NPS;

   

• Ms. Katherine Ann Hughes of Ambler, Pennsylvania, USA, assigned to The Centre for the Preservation of Historic Landscapes, Warsaw, Poland;

   

• Mr. Coleman Austin Jordan of Clemson, South Carolina, USA, assigned to the MUCIA Ghana Office & The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, Cape Coast, Ghana;

   

• Mr. Masahiro Katoh of Tokyo, JAPAN, assigned to the HAER America's Industrial Heritage Project at Monessen, Pennsylvania;

   

• Mr. Erick James McEvoy of Ottawa, CANADA, assigned to the HAER recording project, Iowa Bridges Survey, Ames, Iowa;

   

• Mr. Brian Patrick McKillips of State College, Pennsylvania, USA, assigned to English Heritage, Architectural Study Collection, Kenwood House;

   

• Ms. Marija Mikneviciute of the Institute for Monument Restoration, Vilnius, LITHUANIA, assigned to National Capital Region NPS, List of Classified Structures;

   

• Mr. Julian Netherton of Plymouth, UNITED KINGDOM, assigned to Williamsport Preservation Training Center NPS at projects in Harpers Ferry NHP;

   

• Ms. Sally Margaret Prothero of London, UNITED KINGDOM, assigned to Denver Service Center NPS, Falls Church Branch, Cultural Landscape Study of the Jefferson Memorial;

   

• Ms. Kirstin Sechler of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, assigned to The Institute of Monument Restoration, Vilnius, Lithuania;

   

• Mr. Vladimir V. Simonenko of Kiev, UKRAINE, assigned to the HAER recording project at Columbia River Gorge Scenic Highway, Portland, Oregon;

   

• Mr. Jayant Swamy of New Delhi, INDIA, assigned to a HAER recording project in the Birmingham Industrial Heritage District, Birmingham, Alabama;

   

• Ms. Nur Urfalioglu Istanbul, TURKEY, assigned to the Southwest Regional Office, NPS, Division of Conservation;

   

• Mr. Erbprem Vatcharangkul of Chantaburi, THAILAND, assigned to Underwater Archaeology Conservation Laboratory, Northwestern State University, Louisiana;

   

• Mr. Adriaan Johannes Vlaardingerbroek of Delft, NETHERLANDS, assigned to the HAER recording project, Iowa Bridges Survey, Ames, Iowa;

   

• Mr. Matthew S. Wilcox of Annandale, Virginia, USA, assigned to The National Trust, Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury;

   

• Mr. Martin Zembery of Bratislava, SLOVAK REPUBLIC, assigned to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office NPS, List of Classified Structures.

In some countries with convertible currency, interns will be paid a stipend of approximately $4,000 for the 12-week working internship. In other cases, the stipend is based on local wages. Exchanges offer partial or full travel grants. Applicants must be US/ICOMOS members; graduate students or young professionals with at minimum a bachelors degree, 22 to 35 years old. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their qualifications in preservation through a combination of academic and work experience; the program is not intended for those with an interest, but no experience or career commitment, in the field. Attendance at the orientation and final debriefing programs is obligatory. No spouses or families can be accommodated.

Applications are due no later than March 1, 1996. For further information and for application forms, contact: Ellen Delage, Program Director, US/ICOMOS, 1600 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20006, tel: 202/842-1862, fax: 202/842-1861.

1. A financially stable US/ICOMOS through effective management and a combination of financial development, membership development and other means.
2. A qualified staff with professional and administrative support appropriate to the programs and activities that need to be undertaken.
3. Programs that truly serve the needs of the national and international preservation communities.
4. Partnerships with organizations and committees inside and outside of US/ICOMOS in order to heighten program effectiveness.
5. A visible presence on the preservation/cultural heritage scene with attractive publications and other forms of communications among the members and others.

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