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The Bulletin of the Field Museum of Natural History

MEMBERS’ NIGHT
IN PICTURES

Were you there? Two pages of photos cap-

ture a few of the 6,000 members and guests
who trekked the halls during the Museum’s
41st annual Members’ Night.

A complete schedule
of music, interna-
tional games, and
other free programs
for Museum visitors

Fourth annual
Neighbors Night
celebrates the diver-
sity of Chicago’s
ethnic communities.

Results of a survey of
Museum members.
What you like, dis-
like, and would like
to see and do.

For nearly 100
years, the Museum
and the Park District
have been partners
in public learning.

Pages 10-11

SPOTLIGHT ON GEOLOGY

wo international scientific gather-

ings, held at the Field Museum in

May and June, have spotlighted

the important role that the Muse-

um’s Department of Geology has
assumed in systematics research — the effort to
understand the evolutionary development and
relationships of plants and animals and to dis-
cern the processes through which evolution
happens.

Members of the department organized and
made major presentations to both the Fifth
North American Paleontological Convention
(NAPC.V) in June and the Museum’s 15th
annual Spring Systematics Symposium in May.
NAPC.V was co-sponsored by the University
of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chica-
go, and the Association of North American
Paleontological Societies. The Spring sympo-
sium was concerned with the analytical and
philosophical foundations of systematics
research — questions like how we determine
the relationships between species and how we
infer the mechanisms of evolution.

That “geologists” should be particularly
concerned with such questions may seem pecu-
liar, but the department’s seven current curators
share an interest in evolutionary biology as
related to the changing face of the earth. They
are all paleontologists, and their research spe-
cialties and methodologies tend toward hybrid
disciplines (biostratigraphy and historical bio-
geography, for example) and the use of high-
tech analytical tools (geomagnetics, molecular
genetics). Lance Grande, associate curator of
fossil fishes, goes a bit beyond the label pale-
ontologist; he studies primarily those fossils
that have close living relatives with which he
can compare their anatomy, development, and
geographic distribution over time.

A committee of outside experts evaluating
the department last year noted that the curators
are “among the brightest and most active pale-
ontologists,” that their research programs are
“ambitious, far-sighted, and successful by all
measures,” and that “the enthusiasm generated
by interesting research results is tangible.” The
department, the evaluators said, “is in every
sense fully competitive with the most highly
respected university faculties in paleontology.”

There is more to geology than paleontolo-
gy, of course, and the department holds impor-
tant collections of meteorites, rocks, and ores.
While considering how to replace Edward J.
Olsen, a specialist in meteorites who retired last
year, the department has assigned the care of
these collections to interim curator Ignacio
Casanova, working on a grant from the Nation-
al Aeronautics and Space Administration. John
J. Flynn, associate curator of fossil mammals,
also has a strong research interest in several
aspects of what’s known in the trade as “hard-
rock” geology. (Flynn studies geochronology
and plate tectonics as well as mammalian evo-
lution.)

Major lines of research in the department
include John Bolt’s work on the origin and evo-

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lution of early tetrapods (four-limbed creatures
in the line presumably leading from fishes to
reptiles, birds, and mammals); Peter R. Crane’s
on the origin and evolution of the flowering
plants; Flynn’s on the geological development
of the American continents and the succession
of land mammals; Grande’s on the evolution
and historical biogeography of the ray-finned
fishes; Scott Lidgard’s on the evolutionary his-
tory, global diversity, and ecology of marine
invertebrates; Matthew H. Nitecki’s on the evo-
lutionary relationships of fossil algae; and

Olivier C. Rieppel’s on the development of |

skeletal structures in reptiles and fishes.

A $375,000 grant from the National Sci-
ence Foundation is enabling the department to
dramatically upgrade its physical facilities and.
laboratories. The Museum was the only institu-
tion in Illinois to receive an award under this
program, and one of only three museums
nationwide.

ship to the ancestors of reptiles.

RIEPPEL HONORED BY LINNEAN SOCIETY

livier C. Rieppel, curator of fossil
amphibians and reptiles, has been
elected a Foreign Member of the
Linnean Society of London, one of
the oldest and most prestigious professional
organizations for biologists in the world.

The Society’s Foreign Members, limited
to 50 worldwide, include such luminaries as
Stephen Jay Gould and Ernst Mayr of Har-
vard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, Peter
H. Raven of the Missouri Botanical Garden,
Emperor Akihito of Japan, a renowned ichthy-
ologist, and Armen Takhtajan, director of the
Komarov Botanical Institute in St. Petersburg
[Leningrad]. Rieppel’s election brings the
Society’s U.S. membership to ten.

Peter R. Crane, the MacArthur Curator of
Paleobotany and chairman of the Department
of Geology, observed that six of the U.S. mem-
bers “are near the end of very long careers.”
Rieppel’s election at the age of 40, Crane said,
“recognizes his extraordinary contributions to
understanding the evolution of diapsid reptiles
and illuminating the history, theory, and meth-
ods of comparative biology.” Diapsid reptiles
are those, like the alligator, with two pairs of
temporal openings in the skull.

Rieppel came to the Field Museum in

1990 from the Paleontological Institute and
Museum of the University of Zurich, Switzer-
land. His research interests encompass the
comparative anatomy, embryonic and post-
embryonic development, and evolutionary
relationships of living as well as fossil reptiles
and fishes. He has also written and lectured
widely on the history and philosophy of biolo-
gy, including the basic question of
what constitutes a species.

This year, Rieppel succeeded
Matthew H. Nitecki, curator of |
fossil invertebrates, as organizer ;
of the Museum’s annual Spring | %
Systematics Symposium. His first |
edition of the event, now in its
16th year, was devoted to “Sys-
tematics and Process,” a debate on
the philosophical and analytical
underpinnings of taxonomic and
evolutionary research.

Rieppel did his undergraduate
work in zoology at the University §
of Basel, Switzerland, his master’s f
degree in vertebrate paleontology
at University College, London,
and his Ph.D. in zoology at Basel
(1978).

~ James Balodimas / GN86386.27

Ron Testa / GEO85147

Left, Geology Department staff and contractors surround curator
John Flynn (in hat) after placing a time capsule in the new geo-
magnetics laboratory. Above (left to right), preparators Steve
McCarroll, Robert Masek, William Kephart and chief preparator
William Simpson at work dismantling the Lambeosaurus skeleton
for reinstallation in “Life Over Time.” Top, skull with lower jaws,
of a fossil amphibian, 340 million years old, collected by curator
John Bolt and colleagues in southeastern lowa in 1986. It’s infor-
mally called “protoanthracosaur,” signifying its possible relation-

Olivier C. Rieppel

Jack and Edna
Staehle being pre-
sented with a
placque recognizing
them as Honorary
Associates in the
Department of
Botany, by Michael
O. Dillon, curator of
vascular plants.

PARTNERS IN PUBLIC LEARNING

By Willard L. Boyd
President, Field Museum of Natural History

ield Museum and the Chicago Park

District have been partners in pub-

lic learning since 1894, when the

Museum opened in Jackson Park,

Nearly one hundred years later, this
partnership continues to benefit Chicagoans,
our neighbors, and visitors from around the
world.

From 1893 on, the Park District has pro-
vided operating support for the Field Museum
and other museums on Park District land. This
has made it possible for these institutions to
serve all Chicagoans as community centers of
learning. During the past 20 years, the Park
District has also provided capital matching
funds to provide for building renovations which
are necessary for the museums to maintain up-
to-date physical plants, capable of servicing
large numbers of people.

We have particularly enjoyed working with
the Park District in joint programming this
summer. As in the previous three years, Field
Museum staff are traveling to Chicago Park
District fieldhouses to stir the interest of young-

sters in the wonders of nature. Workshops on
plants, insects, and birds common to the Chica-
go region are conducted at Park District sites,
Children enrolled in summer camp programs in
park fieldhouses are afforded a unique opportu-
nity to learn about nature through tailored
workshops and traveling exhibit cases as well
as printed materials.

Jessie Thymes, the Museum’s director of
community outreach, supervises our work in
the parks. Our mission to provide public learn-
ing about the environment makes it “vitally
important that we take our resources out to
neighborhood environmental settings — Chica-
go parks,” says Ms. Thymes.

With Rosaura Boone, community outreach
assistant, Ms. Thymes currently provides envi-
ronmental workshops at Park District sites in
eight Chicago neighborhoods. In addition, they-
furnish small dioramas, experience boxes, and
written materials for day camps in all of the
city’s parks and arrange for visits from those
camps to the Museum. Free family passes are
distributed at all fieldhouses. Two recently
installed exhibits, “Into the Wild: Animals,
Trails & Tales” and “Backyard Monsters: The
World of Insects,” make this summer an espe-

THREE FRIENDS

hree of the Museum’s Benefactors

have died in recent months, leay-

ing their friends and colleagues

here with a deep sense of loss.

Jack and Edna Staehle and Gay-
lord Donnelley were members of the Museum
community whose financial contributions were
more than matched, generous as they were, by
their personal involvement in research and
exhibition programs. Mr. Donnelley died April
19 at the age of 81. Mr. Staehle died April 28 at
age 88 and Mrs. Staehle on May 00 at 00; they
had been married 67 years.

Jack Staehle took a particular interest in
the botany department’s work in Peru. As vice
president and controller of Alden’s, the mail-
order catalogue house, before his retirement in
1966, he had conducted numerous management
seminars organized by the State Department for
business executives throughout South America.
During his visits to the region he developed a
serious amateur’s interest in both indigenous
cultures and the demographics of disease, and
discovered a curious family connection in Peru:
His great-grandfather, the owner of a traveling
circus, had in 1817 donated an elephant to start
a local zoo in Arequipa. From the early 1980s
on the Staehles supported the work of Field
Museum curators in Peru, especially the late
Timothy C. Plowman, who studied indigenous

use of the coca plant, and Michael O. Dillon,
on the fog-dependent plant communities of the
Peruvian coastal desert.

The Staehles were elected Sustaining
Benefactors of the Museum in 1974. They were
charter members of the Founders’ Council and
Mrs. Staehle was a charter member of the
Women’s Board. In 1962, the Museum estab-
lished the Jack C. Staehle Endowment Fund for
general support, to which the Staehles contin-
ued to contribute through 1991. They were
named Honorary Associates of the Department
of Botany last year; John Engel, chairman of
the department, said he and his colleagues
mourn the loss of “an interesting and stimulat-
ing partner in our work.” :

Gaylord Donnelley and his wife, Dorothy,
who survives him, have been generous support-
ers of the Museum for nearly 30 years. They
were charter members of the Founders’ Council
and Mrs. Donnelley is a sustaining member of
the Women’s Board. They were elected Bene-
factors of the Museum in 1986.

Mr. Donnelley, former president of R.R.
Donnelley & Sons Co., the world’s largest
commercial printer, was an ardent conserva-
tionist. He donated thousands of acres of land
for wildlife protection and gave his time and
money to a number of wildlife organizations,
serving for some years as president of Ducks

cially great time for campers to visit the Muse-
um. On-site training in June for day camp per-
sonnel in the use of our loan materials gave
Park District supervisors from all over the city
the opportunity to learn how Field Museum
resources and activities can be used to benefit
campers. While this program has been mainly a
summer activity for day-camp groups, a year-
round program is under consideration.

Also this summer, in what we hope will
become a new tradition, the Chicago Park Dis-
trict Flex Fund and the Grant Park Music Festi-
val, with support from the factory-owned stores
of the Baldwin Piano & Organ Company, are
using Field Museum to showcase the Music
Festival’s outreach artists — tenor Robert
White (July 11), pianist Chris O’Riley (July
22), cellist Carter Brey (August 20), and
Awadagin Pratt, winner of the Naumburg Com-
petition (July 8) for outstanding young pianists.

Field Museum is a center for public learn-
ing reaching out to serve the learning needs of a
diverse public. Chicago parks are providing
open spaces where citizens can learn, relax, and

_ participate in organized activities. Together, we

have built a long-standing partnership making a
unique learning experience available to all.

Gaylord Donnelley

Unlimited. He was a longtime member of the
Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago
and was its chairman from 1970 to 1976.

In recognition of the Donnelleys’ generous
contribution to the development of “Into the
Wild: Animals, Trails & Tales,” the Museum
dedicated in their honor the Nature Center
component of the exhibit complex, where visi-
tors can retrieve computerized information
about natural areas and wildlife preserves in the
four states bordering Lake Michigan.

In the Field

July/August 1992
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UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS

NEIGHBORS NIGHT:
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CHICAGO'S DIVERSITY [eget ==

from reverse translit-
eration), left to right: .,
Angela, Rachim, Ish-

- mael, and Billy.
Below, youngsters
are outfitted for.
island life in pareus
by Outreach Council
member Lisa
Donofrio. -

_ Diane Alexander White / GN86402.16

Left, Margarita Var-
gas, a student in the

_ junior-high museolo-
gy program, witha
pifiata in the form of
a bus. Below, dancers
of the Joe Manu Poly-
nesian Revue .

Diane Alexander White / GN86402.8

May 22, 1992

The fourth annual Neighbors Night celebration of the arts and cultures of
_Chicago’s ethic communities was the highlight of Neighbors Month. Pre-
sented by the Museum’s Community Outreach Program, the event drew
more than 2,000 visitors. Free bus transportation was provided from Chi-
natown, Auburn-Gresham, Englewood, West Englewood, Pilsen, South
Shore, South Chicago, and the Near West Side.

Diane Alexander White/GN86401.11

Membership Survey:

667 like the new exhibits and multi-

cultural performances in Stanley
Field Hall. ¥?

Work continues on renovation of the Maori
meeting house, Ruatepupuke II. Hinemoa
Hilliard, a conservation intern from New
Zealand, freshens the paint on one of
Ruafepupuke’s many carved panels. The house
is scheduled to reopen in March 1993 adjacent

to the Pacific exhibits on the second floor.
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Diane Alexander White / GN86352,15

3 July/August 1992

UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS

John Weinstein / GN86369,30

WOMEN'S BOARD ELECTS
NEW OFFICERS

Membership Survey:

66 Please have lectures — in a lecture hall
— on specific Museum exhibits, like the Art

Institute does.

TAXI
DAY II:
BUG &
BREAK-
FAST

The Museum’s sec-
ond annual Taxi Day,
June 3, designed to
acquaint Chicago’s
cab drivers with the
Museum and its
exhibits, featured a
special tour of
“Backyard Monsters:
The World of
Insects.” Right, a
cabbie leaves the
event with a bag of
souvenirs; below,
others check out
Alexia Trzyna’s spi-
der and roach show.

Linda Dorman / GN86398.28

Linda Dorman / GN86399, 19

July/August 1992

Mrs. Michael A. Bilandic, a member since 1977, was elected president of the Women’s Board at the
group’s annual meeting May 13, succeeding Mrs. Howard J. Trienens. In the photo at left, Mrs.
Bilandic (right) and Mrs. Trienens are shown with Museum trustee Bill Kurtis, the luncheon speaker.
In the group portrait, Mrs. Bilandic is joined by the other new officers, from left: Mrs. Byron C.
Karzas, vice president; Mrs. David C. Hawley, secretary; Mrs. Robert A. Beatty, treasurer; Mrs. Roger
W. Stone, vice president; and Mrs. Robert Doane Nichols, vice president.

Membership Survey:

66 Why don't you have all the beautiful
Malvina Hoffman statues in one room? 99

Exploring Gift Opportunities?

Field Museum’s guides can help you chart your course.

When planning your gift to Field Museum,

; why not let our experts guide you

through the dozens of giving opportunities
to the one best suited to your needs?

Write or call for a complimentary copy of
“Your Guide to Effective Giving.”

Call Melinda Pruett-Jones / (812) 332-8868

John Weinstein / GN86371.16A

CALENDAR OF EVENTS
HISTORIC CARPENTER PHOTOS

lassic photographs of Native

Americans by Charles H.

Carpenter, who was the Museum’s

chief photographer from 1899 to
1947, are on display in the Native American
halls on the first floor, where temporary walls
have been erected for construction work. The
portraits, which are character studies of indi-
viduals rather than “types,” were taken during
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis
in 1904.

Carpenter’s extraordinary 48-year tenure
at the Field Museum produced thousands of
photographs of objects, exhibits, and expedi-
tions that remain a vital part of the Museum’s
scientific resources. The St. Louis portraits,
however, also belong to the realm of art.

Right, the Apache
leader Geronimo.
Below, Bob Harris
and Charles Nowell,
Kwakiutl, of Fort
Ruper, British
Columbia, smoothing
a copper.

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HELD MUSEUM

THE SMART WAY TO HAVE FUN.

LOCKED IN STONE:
PREHISTORIC CREATURES OF FOSSIL LAKE

ntriguing fossils from a 52-million-year-

old lake community in Wyoming are on

view through November 15 in “Locked in

Stone: The Prehistoric Creatures of Fossil
Lake.” The more than 100 fossils are a select
representation of specimens collected over the
past fifteen years by Lance Grande, associate
curator of fossil fishes in the Department of
Geology.

The fossils were extracted from Fossil
Lake, which is part of the Green River
Formation that covers parts of Wyoming,
Colorado, and Utah. Located in southwestern
Wyoming, Fossil Lake has proved to be one of
the richest fossil areas in the world — an entire
lake community fossilized in limestone and
frozen in a time when that part of the country
had a tropical climate. Grande has assembled
for the Field Museum the world’s finest collec-
tion of Green River fossils.

The work at Fossil Lake is unusual
because scientists are able to look at an entire
lake community rather than having to piece
together scattered objects. Insects, shrimps,
snails, plants, fishes, amphibians, turtles, birds,
13- foot-long crocodiles, and other fossils can
all be found in a narrow horizon of limestone
— acompressed picture of an entire lake sys-
tem representing a contemporaneous communi-
ty of organisms from the Early Eocene time
period.

At Fossil Lake, instead of studying isolated
specimens, scientists are able to examine a
whole community: Fish eating other fish, fish
with other fish in their stomachs, leaves that
have been chewed by insects, and the insects
that most likely did the chewing. Grande is also
able to study fossil evidence of the life histories

of now extinct animals, including growth series
of fishes from hatchlings to large adults.

Another quality that makes Fossil Lake
such an important research site is the amazing
preservation of the fossils. It is not unusual, at
Fossil Lake, to find whole fishes preserved in
the limestone, for example. The condition of
these fossils allows Grande and other scientists
not only to study the past, but to include those
fossils in studies of fish living today. The fos-
sils are so detailed that scientists can determine
where their nearest living relatives are today.
This kind of information is crucial in studies of
evolutionary patterns.

The Green River fossils have opened a
window on the past, providing a startling view
of life on earth more than 50 million years ago.

DINOSAURS FIND TEMPORARY SHELTER

hile most of the Museum’s

dinosaurs are being refurbished

for “Life Over Time,” a spectac-

ular new exhibit on evolution

scheduled to open in 1994, some may be seen

in mini-exhibits on the east side of the second

floor. These include Lambeosaurus, the “vic-

tim” dinosaur formerly found at the feet of a

triumphant Albertosaurus in Stanley Field Hall;

the skulls of Triceratops, Diplodocus, and

Edmontosaurus (the “Duckbill Dinosaur’); and
the 6'7" thigh bone of Argyrosaurus superbus.

The dinosaurs are joined by a number of

large fossil reptiles in the vicinity of “Moving

Earth,” an exhibit on plate tectonics and conti-

nental drift that features a big-screen video pre-
sentation on the earth’s geological history.

“Life Over Time” will complete the trans-
formation of the Museum’s major permanent
exhibits that began in 1982 with “Maritime
Peoples of the Northwest Coast and Alaska.”
In all, some 60 percent of the Museum’s public
space will have been redone with large mullti-
disciplinary exhibits, resource centers, and
introductory exhibits like “Families at Work”
—all in time for the Museum’s centennial cele-
brations in 1993-94.

Friday
Wanderers Return

Founders’ Council tour group returns to
Chicago from Alaska.

Saturday
Independence Day

The Museum is open.

Tuesday
Literatosaurs

Theo the Dinosaur promotes reading, aided
by his creator, Phil Yeh, and Cartoonists
Across America. Book-signing and cartoon
mural-painting from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

7/ 8 Wednesday

Donor Reception

Reception and tour of new exhibit, “Locked
in Stone: Prehistoric Creatures of Fossil
Lake,” with Dr. Lance Grande. For Field
Explorers, Naturalists, and Adventurers.
5:30 p.m. in the South Gallery.

July/August 1992

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Snake Husbandry

Chicago Herpetological Society hears Dr.
John Rossi on captive maintenance and
husbandry techniques for North American
snakes. 7 p.m. in the Simpson Theater. All
are welcome.

Sunday
Kites

Members of Chica-
go Skyliners Club
will teach kite con-
struction and
demonstrate kite-
flying techniques.

8/23 sen

Exhibit Closes

Last chance to see “Powwow: Photographs
of Shoshone and Arapaho Powwow
Dancers” by Elijah Cobb. In the Webber
Gallery.

8/29 suse

Iluminations

Art instructor April O’Connor and Field
Museum librarian Ben Williams teach a
day-long course on “II]uminated
Manuscripts and Rare Books.” Includes a
visit to the Rare Book Room of the Museum
Library. 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. $32 ($28 mem-
bers). Call (312) 322-8854.

The Field Museum wishes to thank its
Chicago promotional partners for
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EDUCATIONAL FUN FOR

ALL AGES

World of Games

July 30 — August 2

tes, hula hoops, string games, jump
ropes, and board games are what you
. will find in Stanley Field Hall and on
the north steps of the Museum during The
World of Games at Field Museum. This fun-
filled program offers children and adults of all
ages an opportunity to discover other cultures
from across town and across the world through
hands-on demonstrations and performances.
Each activity features a “You are Here“ world
map indicating the country from which each
activity originates.

Program highlights include a kite flying
demonstration by the Chicago Skyliners Club
on Sunday, August 2 and a performance of
Chinese: dance by Olinda Chang on Friday,
July 3. Other activities include kite making,
Pacific games, games of the United States,
American Indian games, and African games.
For dates and times, see the Visitor Programs
page overleaf.

~ ield Museum offers an array of fun
: ummer workshops, classes, and
field trips for all ages and inter-
sts. Families can venture out on a
‘Museum safari” or hang out
overnight with the mummies and
Sephants: Adults can try their hand at paper-
making or take a night hike to see bats at Volo
Bog. For a complete schedule, call (312) 322-
8854 during regular business hours weekdays.
Among the summer’s highlights:

Saturday, July 11
Legendary Tombouktou
Adult Course/Lecture

Deborah Mack, senior exhibit co-developer
of the Museum’s forthcoming comprehensive
exhibit on Africa, presents a slide-illustrated lec-
ture on the African city of Tombouktou, an
important center of learning and trade for nearly
one thousand years. Dr. Mack will discuss the
rise, decline, and evolution of this once powerful
city.
10 a.m.—_noon. Admission $12; $10 members.

Sunday, August 2
String Games from Around the World

Family Workshop
Adults and children grades 3-6. Learn string
games from many different cultures including
Double Diamonds, Witch’s
., Broom and Grandpa’s

Overalls.
10 a.m. — noon. Admis-
sion $9 per participant; $7
members.

Sunday, August 9
Cascarones!
Children’s Workshop — Grades 1 and 2
Cascarones is the Spanish word for egg
shells filled with confetti. Discover what life in
Guatemala is like, play with toys, try on tradi-
tional clothing and make some cascarones to
take home.
10 a.m. — noon. Admission $14; $12 for mem-
bers.

Sunday, August 16
Who Lives in the Pond?
Adult/Toddler Workshop

Children ages 3 and 4 and their adults will
meet jumping fish, hopping frogs, and graceful
dragonflies when we visit our puppet pond.
10-11 a.m. Admission $14 ($12 members) for
one adult and one child.

Sunday, August 16
Sunset Cruise on Lake Michigan
Adult Field Trip

Travel the Chicago River and the lakefront
as Dr. Irving Cutler, professor emeritus of geog-
raphy at Chicago State University, shares infor-
mation on lake geology, urban architecture past
and present, and historic patterns. Box supper
provided.
6-9 p.m. Admission $40; $33 members.

And coming in the fall...

New family workshops including “Bear Essen-
tials” and “New Games!”; a family evening
behind-the-scenes with the Division of Birds;
new adult courses including “Women of Ancient
Egypt” and “The Traditional Art of Batik”; and
field trips hiking along the Des Plaines River
and bird-watching at Horicon Marsh. One of our
guest lecturers will be Kate Ezra, a curator with
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
She’ll discuss “The Royal Art of Benin” on Fri-
day, October 9. Our fall Field Guide brochure
will be available in mid August. If you don’t
receive one in the mail call (312) 322-8854.

Deborah Mack
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annual report

10% discount at all Museum stores
Use of our 250,000-volume

natural history library

Discount on classes, field trips, and seminars
for adults and children
Members-only tour program
Opportunity to attend the annual .
children’s Holiday Tea

Discount at Chicago’s largest furniture
wholesaler

Children’s “dinosaur” birthday card

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VISITOR PROGRAMS

Robert White

Monday - Friday

Museum Highlight Tours

11am & Ipm Visit Ancient
Egypt, the Northwest Coast
Indians, animals of the Prairie
State, and the Mayan people of
Middle America during a high-
light tour of the Museum. Please
check the monitors & Field
Note Sheets for tour topics and
other details. All tours meet at
the north fountain in Stanley
Field Hall.

Monday - Sunday Arthro-cart
Insect, arachnid, and arthropod
activities to complement “Back-
yard Monsters: The World of
Insects.” Please check monitors
& Field Note Sheets for com-
plete details.

Saturday, July 4
11am - 4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation

Sunday, July 5
11am - 4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation

Tuesday, July 7

10 am - 5pm Theo the
Dinosaur Mural Painting

12 - 2pm Theo the Dinosaur
Book Signing
Join Phil Yer and Cartoonists
Across America as they create a
mural “ Explore New Worlds —
Read.” Theo, Dewy, Dinah, and
Dallas, four dinosaurs who
avoid extinction by learning to
read and recycle, will be fea-
tured in the mural. A host of
Chicago area cartoonists will be
on hand to help create the
mural. Copies of Theo The
Dinosaur will be available for
sale. Author and cartoonist Phil
Yeh will offer cartoons and per-
sonalized greetings in each
copy of Theo the Dinosaur.

Wednesday, July 8

1pm Awadagin Pratt, winner of
the Naumburg Competition for
young, up-and-coming pianists,
will perform. This performance
is made possible by the Grant
Park Music Festival, Chicago
Park District Flex Fund, and
Baldwin Piano Company.

Saturday, July 11

9:30am - 2:30pm Insect Speci-
men Preparation

11 & 11:30am Stories Around
the World

1pm Tenor Robert White,
accompanied by pianist
Michael Cullen, will perform
“Songs My Father Taught Me,”
a repertoire of Irish songs and
ballads. This per-
formance is made
possible by the
Grant Park Music
Festival, Chicago
Park District Flex
Fund, and Baldwin
Piano Company.

Sunday, July 12
11am - 4pm Insect
Specimen Prepara-
tion

Saturday, July 18
9:30 am - 4pm
Insect Specimen
Preparation
1:30pm Tibet
Today & A Faith in
Exile - A slide pre-
sentation.

Sunday, July 19
11am - 4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation

July/August 1992 $

Wednesday, July 22

1pm Pianist Chris O’Riley,
recent winner of the Van
Cliburn Award, will perform
selections by Chopin, Liszt,
and Villa-Lobos.This perfor-
mance is made possible by the
Grant Park Music Festival,
Chicago Park District Flex Fund,
and Baldwin Piano Company.

Saturday, July 25
11am - 4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation

Sunday, July 26
11am - 4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation

Celebrate the world of games
during four days of fun-filled
activities. Kites, hula hoops,
string games, jump ropes and
board games are just a few of
the games from many cultures
you will be able to participate
in July 30 — August 2.

Thursday, July 30

11am - 3pm Pacific Games
Join Hinemoa Hilliard as she
demonstrates the lively stick
games popular with the Maori
people of New Zealand. String

2pm Kite Flying Demonstration
by Chicago Skyliners Club.

1pm World Music performance
featuring original Brazilian
compositions by Venicio De
Toledo.

Saturday, August 8

11am - 4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation

1pm Panamanian Folkloric “Mi
Lindo Panama” The dance,
music and colorful costumes of
Panama will be presented by
this children’s folkloric group.
3pm World Music presentation
of Hispanic & Chicano poems
by Carlos Cumpian.

Sunday, August 9

11am - 4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation

1pm World Music performance
of African drums and drum
making by Musa Mosely.

Saturday, August 15

11am - 4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation

1pm World Music performance
of African American music by
Vandy Harris.

Webber Resource Center
Native Cultures of the Americas
Books, videotapes, educator
resources, tribal newspapers,
and activity boxes about native
peoples of the Americas are
available.

Daily 10am - 4:30pm

Harris Educational Loan Center
Chicago Area educators may
borrow activity boxes and small
dioramas from Harris Center.
For more information call: (312)
322-8853.

Open House Hours: Tuesdays &
Thursdays 2:30 - 5pm and Sat-
urdays 9am - 5pm

Place For Wonder

A special room of touchable
objects where you can discover
daily life in Mexico, in addition
to an array of fossils, shells,
rocks, plants, and live insects.
Weekdays: 11am - 4:30pm
Weekends: 10am - 4:30pm

Pawnee Earth Lodge

Walk into a traditional home of
the Pawnee Indians of the Great
Plains and learn about their
daily life during the mid-19th
century. Free program tickets

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games from many Pacific peo-
ples will also be demonstrated.
11am - 3pm Games of the U.S.
Hopscotch, hula hoop, and ball
and jacks are just a few of the
games that will be played.
11am - 1pm Jump Rope
Demonstration

Friday, July 31 ;
11am, 12:30pm & 2pm Kites
Members of the Chicago Skylin-
ers Club will be on hand to help
visitors build a simple kite to fly
in front of Field Museum and to
take home.

11am, 12:30pm & 2pm Chinese
Dance Traditional dance from
many regions of China will be
demonstrated by Olinda Chang.
11am - 3pm Chinese Games
Tangrams and shuttlecock are
just two of the games to play.

Saturday, August 1

9:30am - 2:30pm Insect Speci-
men Preparation

11am - 3pm American Indian
Games Ring and pin, dice, and
hand games are among the
games played by America’s first
peoples .

11am - 3pm Games of the U.S.
Hopscotch, hula hoop, ball and
jacks and more American
games.

11am - 1pm Jump Rope
Demonstration

1pm World Music performance
of classical flamenco guitar by
Emory Callaway.

Sunday August 2 ;

11am - 4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation

11am - 3pm African Games
Marion Thomas will demon-
strate Owari and other African
games.

11am & 12:30pm Kites
Members of the Chicago Skylin-
ers Club will be on hand to
help visitors build a simple kite
to fly in front of Field Museum
and to take home.

AVOID

Land of the Thunder Dragon —
A slide presentation

Saturday, August 16

11am - 4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation —

1pm World Music performance
of Pre-Columbian music by
Diego Juarez Sanchez.

Thursday, August 20
1pm Carter Brey will
perform “Music for
Cello Alone.” Selections
of J.S. Bach, Kreisler,
O'Connor, and Kodaly
will be presented. This
performance is made
possible by the Grant
Park Music Festival,
Chicago Park District
Flex Fund, and Baldwin
Piano Company.

Saturday, August 22
9:30am - 2:30pm Insect
Specimen Preparation
1pm World Music per-
formance of Argen-
tinean tangos and Latin
American folk songs by
Alba Guerra.

Sunday, August 23
11am -4pm Insect Spec-
imen Preparation

Tpm World Music per-
formance of the zheng,
Chinese zither, by Fan
Wei-Tsu.

Saturday, August 29

11am - 4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation

1pm World Music performance
of the classical Chinese erhu
by Ji Qiu Min.

Sunday, August30
11am-4pm Insect Specimen
Preparation.

1pm World Music performance
of Jamaican music & stories by
Keith Eric.

TINCTION.

1:30pm Tibet Today & Bhutan,

available from the South Infor-
mation desk in Stanley Field
Hall.

Weekdays: 11am, 11:30am,
1pm, 1:30pm program
Saturdays: 10am - 4:30pm;
free ticketed programs at 11am,
12,2 & 3pm.

Sundays: 10am - 4:30pm

Carter Brey

Rice Animal Study Area
Volunteers Are Needed

Join the exciting world of Field
Museum — become an Educa-
tion Department volunteer.
Weekday and weekend volun-
teer facilitators are needed to
help visitors answer questions
about the animal kingdom,
operate multi-media equip-
ment, conduct demonstrations
and more. Training begins in
mid-August. Contact the Muse-
um Volunteer Coordinator,
(312)922-9410, ext.360.

UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS

MEMBERSHIP SURVEY

early 8,000 members responded to a
N mail survey that asked for their evalu-

ation of Museum services and opera-
tions. Below are the most frequently cited
responses, but Marilyn Cahill, membership
manager, says all responses and suggestions
have been recorded for use in planning future
programs. Numbers in parentheses represent
percent of responses; absence of same indicates
rank order in a long, open-ended list.

1. Why did you join Field Museum?
¢ Support the institution (77)
¢ Free admission (53)
e Special previews of new exhibits (35)

2. How did you first learn about the Museum?
Visit to the Museum (63)
¢ Childhood experience (42)
¢ Chicago landmark (22)

3. Type of membership
* Family (64)
e Individual (19)
° Life (8)
e Associate (3)

4. Why do you maintain your membership?
¢ Support the institution (83)
e Free admission (55)
e Special previews of new exhibits (42)
¢ Members’ programs (41)

———————_ = = @#&;*; + ©
Membership Survey:

66 This [the Holiday Tea]
is delightful! You need more
for the young ones. Our
children talk about this all
year long.

5. How long have you been a member?
e 2-5 years (24)
¢ 6-10 years (18)
e 11-15 years (11)

6. How often do you and your family visit the
Museum?

¢ 2-3 times a year (36)

* once a year (21)

¢ 4-6 times a year (19)

7. What Museum activituies do you and/or your
family participate in throughout the year?

e Shopping at Museum stores (57)

¢ Members’ Night (53)

* Viewing exhibits ( 52)

¢ Members’ previews (46)

8. What events have you attended in the past
two years [1990-91]?

¢ Members’ Night (67)

° “Traveling the Pacific” preview (35)

e “Pacific Spirits” preview (25)

° Viewing exhibits (25)

9. What exhibits would you like to see at the
Museum?

e Dinosaurs

e Native American

* Egyptian

e Animals / birds

¢ Earth sciences / gems

10. What do you most like about the Museum?
¢ Quality of exhibits

Membership Survey:

66 More gorilla
photographs and
animal exhibits! °?

——_____ sds

¢ Variety of exhibits

e “Everything”

° Inside Ancient Egypt exhibit
¢ Native American exhibits

11. What do you think could be improved?
e Parking
¢ Continue to renovate exhibits
e Food service

12. Should there be more members’ programs?
¢ No (45)
e Yes (21)
¢ No answer (35)

13. What topic would you be interesed in for a
members’ program?

e Native Americans

e Early humans

e Environmental issues

14. How important is In the Field to you?
¢ Important (66)
¢ Not important (25)

15. How often do you read In the Field?
e Every issue (73)
e 3 times a year (6)
* twice a year (5)

16. Why do you read In the Field?
* Info on special exhibits and programs (52)
¢ Info on previews of new exhibits (52)
¢ Calendar of Events (42)

17. When is it most convenient for you to par-
ticipate in a members’ program?

° Weekend

¢ Weekend evening

e Evening

18. Would you be willing to participate in a
members’ program outside the Museum?

¢ No (48)

¢ Yes (29)

19. How many persons are in your household?
e 1-2 (56)
° 3-4 (28)
° 5-6 (9)

20. What are the ages of each person?
¢ 36-50 (43)
* 65+ (33)
¢ 51-65 (31)

21. What is your total household income?
¢ $60,000+ (48)
* $40,000-49,000 (10)
¢ $50,000-59,000 (9)

SS
Membership Survey:

66 Access by car is

tricky. You need better

road signs. 99

22. What is the highest level of education com-
pleted by each member of your household?

° Master’s (26)

° College (17)

¢ Doctorate (11)

23. Do you use the food service at the Museum??
° Yes (62)
¢ No (32)
If yes, which?
¢ Picnic in the Field (36)
¢ McDonald’s (86)
¢ Vending (25)

24. Which of the following institutions do you
belong to or visit?

¢ Art Institute of Chicago (80)

¢ Museum of Science & Industry (75)

e Shedd Aquarium (68)

¢ Lincoln Park Zoo (66)

e Adler Planetarium (49)

25. Rate the following membership benefits in
order of priority to you. (Answers listed in
descending order of frequency.)

e Free admission

¢ Previews of new exhibits

e Store discount

e In the Field

¢ Members’ Night

° Yearly calendar

¢ Discount on classes

¢ Tour program

¢ Reduced magazine subscriptions

¢ Holiday Tea

Membership Survey:

66 Yow’re on target in
striking a balance between
glass case exhibits and
environmental settings as
in ‘Traveling the Pacific.’ 49

SS

26. Indicate whether you agree or disagree
with the following statements about the Muse-
um. (Items receiving 90%+ agreement)

¢ Conveniently located

¢ Easy to find exhibits and services

¢ Good place for children, adults & tourists

¢ Inexpensive family entertainment

e Easy to spend a day there

e Interesting (70% disagreed that the

Museum is “boring.’’)

27. Have you ever participated in the Museum’s
tour program?

e Yes (9)

¢ No (90)

If yes, how often?

* once or twice (72)

° 3 times (12)

° 5-6 times (5)

If yes, where did you travel?

Answers included Chicago, Illinois, Midwest,
Egypt, Africa, Mexico and Central America,
China and the Pacific region.

If no, would you consider taking a tour in the
future?

¢ 70% said yes, but were uncertain about their
destination.

+ Survey was completed before expansion and
remodeling of Picnic in the Field.

9 July/August 1992

7)

cusses his current
July/August 1992 1 () research.

MEMBERS’ NIGHT 1992

early 6,000 members
and guests roamed the
Museum’s halls for
five hours the night of
May 15 for snéak previews of
exhibits in the making, show-and-
tell with curators and collections —
managers, games for the kids, and
_ entertainment for everyone.

Among the night’s many spe-
cial events was the showing of a .-
film on Chicago’s underground

freight railroad,.which operated
from 1899 to 1959 in the tunnel
beneath the Loop that flooded in
April. The film was narrated by

John Weinstein / GN86375.8

Above, a member
who’ knows how to
_get the editor’s atten-
tion. He did not
wrap those fish with
In the Field.

Ron Dorfman

John Weinstein | Chen oa

|

Above, youngsters try
their skill at comput-
erized extinction
-game, one of the
interactive units
being considered for
inclusion in the “Life
Over Time” exhibit.

Above, a hands-on
experience. Above

left, a heads-up expe-
rience.

Left, Anita Keller,
coordinator of volun-
teers, at the recruit-
ing station. Right,
Olivier Rieppel, cura-
tor of fossil amphib-
ians and reptiles, dis-

Ron Dorfman

John Weinstein / GN86376,24

a sate

MEMBERS’ NIGHT 1992

Bruce Moffat, author of Forty
Feet Below.

Developers of a new exhibit
on evolution field-tested some
hands-on units that are being
considered for inclusion. The
ever-popular “Blood and Guts”
demonstration of mammal skin-
ning and fleshing drew the usual
gallows crowds, and a good time

was had by all.

John Weinstein / GN86378, 264.07

John Weinstein / GN86377.19

Ron Dorfman

Top to bottom, this
side of page: Young-
sters examine model
of the new dinosaur
hall; exhibit develop-
er Rich Faron makes
note of visitor
response to intérac-
tives; Marilyn Cahill,
membership director
(left) and Janet
Kamien, chair of
design and produc-
tion, survey their
handiwork; Janet
Voight, assistant
curator of inverte-
brates, points out the
finer features of
octopus anatomy.

John Weinstein /GN86377,31

Above, Barry Chernoff, associate curator of fish-
es, shows off a mean-looking but no doubt mis-
understood creature to an appreciative audi-
ence (top). Below, a boy watches on a monitor
as geology preparator William Kephart scrapes
away at a fossil-bearing rock under the micro-

scope.

Diane Alexander White / GN86374.13

John Weinstein / GN86377.13

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312/322-8862

Egypt and the Nile by Yacht

February 7-27, 1993

A truly grand tour of the lands of ancient — and modern —
Egypt. Your guides are Frank Yurco, the Museum’s Egyptology
consultant, and Dr. Ismail Aly, a distinguished native
Egyptologist. From Cairo to Aswan, you'll see in intimate close-
up all the greatest monuments of ancient Egypt: the pyramids at
Giza, the temples and tombs at Luxor and Karnak, the statue of
Ramses II and the Alabaster Sphinx at Memphis, the temple of
Horus at Edfu, the colossal temples of Ramses II and Nefertari at
Aswan, and many more. At the same time, you'll see modern life
along the Nile and meet contemporary Egyptians at work and at
play.

The tour is priced at $6,995 per person, including air fare
and a $200 voluntary contribution to Field Museum.

Madagascar

Island of the Ancestors and Nature’s Sanctuary

18 days: November 6 to November 23, 1992

A wondrous immersion in Malagasy art and culture and an
opportunity to see an amazing array of plants and animals,
including the sacred black lemur, found nowhere else on earth.
The itinerary includes Antananarivo, Ranomafana National Park,
Nosy Be, Lokobe Reserve, Nosy Komba, Fort Dauphin, Berenty
Reserve, and Perinet Reserve.

The tour is priced at $6,425 per person.

. ~ COMING UP: 1993 TOURS

_ © West Africa: Senegal and Mali — January 27—February | 1
_¢ The Galapagos Islands — February 5-16
e Turkey, Past & Present — May 13-30