Ann Webster Smith Reception

Ed. note:  Ann Webster Smith died April 20, 2006.  Select the link at right for a memoriam.

In conjunction with the Winter meeting of the US/ICOMOS Board of Trustees, a reception was held in honor of Chair Emerita Ann Webster Smith, who was recognized at the 15th ICOMOS General Assembly in Xi’an, China by being awarded the 2005 Gazzola Prize.  (Read more about US/ICOMOS at the ICOMOS General Assembly). The National Trust for Historic Preservation graciously offered the Board Room of the Washington, DC headquarters for this event.  Nearly 100 people, including family, friends, US/ICOMOS members, and other long-standing colleagues of Ms. Smith, attended the reception.

John Fowler (Chair, US/ICOMOS Board of Trustees) and Gustavo Araoz (US/ICOMOS Executive Director) provided remarks before presenting Ms. Smith with the medal she was awarded in China.  Jonathan Stevens also read a letter of congratulations from Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.  Senator Chafee's office, along with the Newport World Heritage Committee, has been working closely with US/ICOMOS to compile a World Heritage nomination for Newport and hosted the 9th US/ICOMOS Symposium "From World Heritage to Your Heritage" in Newport April 19-23, 2006.

Click here for a memoriam for
Ann Webster Smith
David Nalle (left), John O. Hedden,
Ann Webster Smith, and Sis Hedden		 Darwina Neal (left), Hamilton Morton,
andTerry Morton (former Chair of US/ICOMOS)		 Mickey Klein (left), Sis Hedden,
and John H. Schafer
Jonathan Poston and Gina Haney (US/ICOMOS Board members) with Ellen Delage (center) former US/ICOMOS Program Director Nellie Longsworth (US/ICOMOS member) and Eric Hertfelder (Newport, Rhode Island) Rhonda Sincavage and Heather MacIntosh
of Preservation Action
Peggy Nalle and Richard Arndt
(Chair, Americans for UNESCO)		 Jonathan Stevens (Office of Senator Lincoln Chafee) and John Fowler (Chair, US/ICOMOS) Bayard Whitmore (GSA, Center for Historic Buildings) and Pamela Jerome (US/ICOMOS Board member)
Gustavo Araoz (left) withi Steve Morris and Jim Charlton (NPS Office of International Affairs) US/ICOMOS Board members Mike Devonshire, James Reap, Pamela Jerome, Jeanne Marie Teutonico, and Jan Anderson with Bayard Whitmore (center, GSA Center for Historic Buildings) Gustavo Araoz (US/ICOMOS Executive Director) with John Fowler (Chair, US/ICOMOS) looking on
Jonathan Stevens reads a letter of congratulations from Senator Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island) Ann Webster Smith receives the Gazzola Prize from John Fowler as her granddaughters Sarah and Eliza Smith look on Guests listening to remarks and the presentation of the Gazzola Prize