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SERIOUSLY AMAZING®

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What makes stars sparkle or skyscrapers stand tall? Why does a 

certain species face extinction? Space travel was the stuff of science 

fiction until someone asked, “How?” 

At the Smithsonian, big questions are the common denominators that unite our museums, research 

centers, and programs. And curiosity is contagious. Today’s small child who looks in awe at 

the big dinosaurs that once roamed the earth and wonders, “What happened?” might just be 

tomorrow’s paleontologist.

Among this year’s stories is a dynamic example of the impact Smithsonian experts can have when 

they come together across disciplines: in African Cosmos, our experts tell an international story 

of how indigenous peoples have interpreted the mysteries of the universe. The dramatic arrival 

of the space shuttle Discovery excited visitors and inspires us with its particular blend of adventure 

and practicality. And the Smithsonian’s newest museum, the National Museum of African 

American History and Culture, will challenge visitors to ponder race, reconciliation, and how the 

story of one American is the story of all Americans. 

No matter what kind of questions you have, the Smithsonian has answers that will surprise and 

delight you. Visit us at www.seriouslyamazing.com to see how we make questions come alive.

None of this would be possible without you. We depend on private philanthropy to keep us 

vibrant and relevant to a new and increasingly diverse generation of Americans. The Smithsonian 

belongs to you, and we deeply appreciate the contributions of all who asked themselves, 

“How can I be a part of my Smithsonian?” Your response to that question makes all the difference.

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Q:

Does the 

Smithsonian seem 

different in 2012?
A:

If so, it’s by design.

What’s part man, part fish, and all latex? 

Find the answer at seriouslyamazing.com, 

a website that introduces a Smithsonian 

where questions come alive*.

To help younger, more diverse audiences understand 

who the Smithsonian is and why it matters, we recently 

took a new look at our venerable brand. “We want 

Americans to see our relevance, and to discover ways 

they can benefit from what we do,” says Pherabe 

Kolb, associate director of strategic communications. 

“We want to spark their interest, and offer more ways 

they can connect to us. We need to speak directly 

to young people in their own language, and show them 

we’re not your grandfather’s Smithsonian.” 

Using seven characters that give voice to questions 

the public asks, the Smithsonian’s first-ever ad campaign 

puts forth a serious message in a light-hearted way. 

Curiosity is innate and part of what makes us human. 

The iterative process of asking and answering questions 

is the basis of learning. And learning is at the Smith-

sonian’s core, whether it’s our conservation biologists, 

astrophysicists, curators, or community educators. 

As for those questions? We’ve got the answers. 

*Answer: Paul Thek’s sculpture Fishman at the Hirshhorn.

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The New is where technology and 

creativity collide.

The Storyteller is about America, 

its people, and the tales they tell.

The Masterpiece embodies artistic 

expression.

The Wild represents the diversity 

of the animal kingdom.

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The Discoverer explores our world and 

the universe.

The Smithsonian is all about 

questions and answers, 

and it is people who bring 

those questions to life.

We created seven quirky 

characters to symbolize the 

questions the Smithsonian 

asks and answers every day. 

Look for them inside the 

question mark, and then go 

to seriouslyamazing.com!

The Green reflects the wonder of the 

natural landscape.

The Mash Up stands for the ways 

people share culture.

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The Civil War at 150

Smithsonian-wide collaboration—

In a wide-ranging retrospective, 

the Smithsonian shined a light on 

familiar and surprising narratives 

and facts of the Civil War, from 

a thoughtful examination of the 

Emancipation Proclamation to an 

exploration of the little-known 

use of hot air balloons for reconnaissance by the Union Army. 

The monumental commemoration 

involved more than 20 museums 

and programs, engaging millions 

of visitors online and in-person, and 

brought new perspectives to this 

central chapter in the American 

story as only the Smithsonian can. 

Ai Weiwei by way 

of the Smithsonian

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 

Garden and Freer Gallery of Art 

and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery—

Chinese, contemporary artist 

Ai Weiwei came to Washington 

with a roar in three exhibitions. 

The Hirshhorn’s Ai Weiwei: 

According to What? and Fragments, 

at the Galleries, explored themes 

like the destruction of the old and 

the fashioning of the new in a 

changing society. Ai Weiwei: Circle 

of Animals/Zodiac Heads, a twelvepart, ten-foot-tall bronze sculptural 

suite installed outdoors at the 

Hirshhorn emphasized the artist’s 

and the Smithsonian’s shared 

desire to make art accessible to all. 

Preserving the Tree of Life

National Museum of Natural 

History and global partners—

It may look it, but this is no ordinary 

freezer room. Instead, the museum’s long rows of stainless steel 

tanks will hold up to five million 

non-human tissue samples, frozen 

as cold as -310 F. The permanent 

deep freeze is safeguarding a portion 

of the world’s biodiversity and will 

help researchers make potentially 

groundbreaking discoveries. This is 

the world’s largest museum-based 

biorepository and one big part 

of the Smithsonian-led Global 

Genome Initiative, which involves 

partner organizations around the 

world and aims in five years to hold 

50 percent of the world’s genomic 

diversity—on ice, in perpetuity. 

App paints a verbal picture

Office of the Chief Information 

Officer and Accessibility Program 

Office—Low-vision visitors to 

the National Museum of American 

History can enjoy a vivid picture 

of the exhibition American Stories

with a new smart phone app 

that gives crowd-sourced verbal 

descriptions of museum artifacts. 

In its next generation the app will 

include a video recording device 

for people with hearing loss. 

Eventually it may go Smithsonianwide, making millions of artifacts 

more accessible to those with 

limited sight and hearing. 

Smithsonian stories 

making news in 2012

People Who Lead 

Today and Tomorrow

What are the qualities necessary to 

lead one of the most visited museums 

in the world, which also sponsors 

world-class scientific research? Vision, 

for sure. Strong leadership skills, the 

ability to mentor bright young scientists, 

and impeccable credentials in the field 

of natural history. Roger and Victoria 

Sant made it easier to find and retain 

an individual with that combination 

of talents by endowing the directorship 

of the National Museum of Natural 

History. “We wanted to give the 

museum the best chance to attract 

high-quality leaders,” says Roger Sant, 

a Smithsonian Regent. “Those of us 

who have been involved with the 

Smithsonian know that the quality 

of its people is what fosters the quality 

of its ideas. Vicki and I hope this gift 

will help set a precedent that other 

donors will follow.”

Roger and Victoria Sant

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What do you get 

when you combine 

a shovel with a tent 

full of living history?

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A: A groundbreaking event on

the National Mall.

February 22, 2012, was a day more than a

century and a half in the making. Speaking at

the groundbreaking of the National Museum

of African American History and Culture,

President Barack Obama called it an idea

whose time had come. First proposed by

black veterans of the Civil War and picked up

again by civil rights advocates of the 1950s

and ’60s, the museum finally became a

reality through an Act of Congress in 2003.

Scheduled to open in 2015, the new museum will

be the nation’s only one devoted exclusively to

documenting African American life, art, history, and

culture. Celebrating its groundbreaking along with

the current First Couple were the museum’s council

members including former First Lady Laura Bush and

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), co-sponsor of the legislation

that created the museum. On a site adjacent to the

Washington Monument, the museum will honor the

extraordinary acts of ordinary Americans and display

artifacts ranging from Harriet Tubman’s shawl to a Jim

Crow railroad car to Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle

Douglas’s memorabilia from the 2012 London games.

“That day was the fulfillment of so many dreams,” says

museum Director Lonnie Bunch. “We are building a

museum that is about making America better. About

remembering those who were left out of history, about

finding reconciliation and healing. And it will tell a part

of your story as an American, no matter who you are.”

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Smithsonian history and 

culture stories of 2012

The American movie

National Museum of American 

History—With the opening of the 

high-tech Warner Bros. Theater, 

the museum not only offers visitors 

an enhanced viewing experience, 

but also adds film and its impact 

on the nation’s popular culture 

to its repertoire. In its first year, the 

theater celebrated the American 

movie with films of Clint Eastwood 

and Humphrey Bogart and deepened visitor appreciation with 

objects on view like studio chief 

Jack Warner’s silver phone. 

Grammy Hall of Fame

Center for Folklife and Cultural 

Heritage—Smithsonian Folkways’ 

American Anthology of Folk Music, 

a pivotal 84-song compilation of 

American Depression-era sounds, 

was inducted into the Grammy 

Hall of Fame. The treasured 

compilation—crucial to the mid20th-century folk music revival—

adds a key dimension to our 

understanding of American cultural 

heritage. It is the second of the 

label’s recordings to be inducted, 

joining This Land is Your Land, by 

Woody Guthrie. 

One-stop stamps

National Postal Museum—

The museum helped launch the 

Global Philatelic Library, an online 

database with millions of philatelic 

records. The free resource, which 

features 19 libraries including the 

Royal Philatelic Society London, 

serves as a one-stop reference for 

stamp enthusiasts everywhere 

and showcases the Smithsonian’s 

commitment to collaborating 

with new partners to reach and 

inspire as many people as possible, 

nationally and globally.

An urban river view

Anacostia Community Museum—

Reclaiming the Edge: Urban 

Waterways and Civic Engagement 

examined the historic, cultural, 

spiritual, and public health impact 

of the polluted Anacostia River 

in Washington D.C. and its global 

links to other compromised 

waterways like the Suzhou Creek 

in Shanghai. It posed philosophical 

questions and gave practical 

answers on how to restore these 

urban treasures.

Places That Make 

Knowledge Come Alive

Built on serious scholarship, the 

National Museum of Natural History’s 

paleobiology and dinosaur hall is also 

a place that makes children’s eyes 

grow wide with wonder. Now, an 

extensive renovation will combine the 

latest research on the evolution of 

life with the museum’s jaw-dropping 

specimens and artifacts to refresh 

the hall’s permanent exhibitions. This 

work is made possible by museum 

board member David H. Koch, whose 

previous gift established the Hall of 

Human Origins. “Given the immense 

popularity of dinosaurs, upgrading this 

magnificent hall will be a great step 

forward,” says Koch. “Natural history 

museums acquaint people with 

the phenomenal phases of the Earth’s 

history and the changes that have 

occurred over time. Great exhibitions 

are an effective way of getting this 

message across to people of all ages.”

David H. Koch

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How did the 

Smithsonian land its 

biggest Discovery

in 2012?

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By boldly going where no 

museum has gone before.

World-famous astronauts stood at attention. 

Young children rode atop their fathers’ 

shoulders, jockeying for the best view. And 

thousands gathered on April 19, 2012, to 

welcome the space shuttle Discovery into 

its new home at the James S. McDonnell 

Space Hangar at the National Air and Space 

Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. 

Representative of America’s continuing journey in space 

exploration, Discovery was NASA’s third shuttle to go 

into service, and it made more flights than any shuttle 

in the fleet. Over its lifetime, it spent a total of 365 days 

in space. “Discovery was a versatile, practical vehicle 

that yielded many benefits,” says Space History Curator 

Valerie Neal. “It held up to seven crew members, and, 

like a huge 18-wheeler truck, carried big cargo—such 

as satellites—into orbit. Discovery launched like a rocket, 

landed like an airplane, ferried scientists and engineers 

into space, and provided a laboratory for experiments. 

It mapped Earth’s hidden contours, and hauled 

equipment to build a space station. Its crews delivered 

and fixed the Hubble Space Telescope and restored 

confidence by returning to space after the shuttle trag-

edies. We built the shuttle to make space travel routine. 

Ultimately, though, we learned it was anything but.” 

Recognized around the world as a symbol of American 

ingenuity, Discovery blazed a trail through space, but 

important days are still ahead. Even grounded, it will 

inspire us to reach for the stars. 

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Smithsonian science 

stories of 2012

Landing the Mars rover

National Air and Space Museum—

NASA enlisted the help of Smithsonian geologist John Grant to 

find a safe and scientifically fertile 

landing site for its rover Curiosity, 

which successfully touched down 

Aug. 6, 2012, at Gale Crater on 

Mars, a 96-mile wide site featuring 

a sediment-rich surface. The layers 

of sediment record past environmental conditions which may carry 

clues about potential past or even 

present habitability on the red 

planet. The site also gives a clear 

picture of the planet's climate and 

geology, data that eventually can 

be used in preparing for a potential 

manned mission.

Preventing pandemic

National Zoological Park—

In Uganda, National Zoo scientists 

outfitted and trained park rangers 

with cell phones to photograph and 

communicate suspicious animal 

deaths, helping identify disease 

outbreaks that might spread 

to humans. This effort, along with 

pathology trainings conducted 

in Vietnam, are part of a collaborative global effort to build 

in-country capacity to detect 

and monitor emerging infectious 

diseases, ultimately helping 

prevent pandemics.

Fostering future leaders

Smithsonian Conservation Biology 

Institute—The newly completed 

green, high-tech, academic facilities 

for the Smithsonian-Mason School 

of Conservation are a brick-andmortar example of the Smithsonian's 

commitment to inspiring new 

generations of conservation biology 

leaders. The pioneering program 

partners with George Mason 

University to ensure that students 

of such diverse fields as journalism 

and biology are equally versed 

in protecting a biodiverse planet.

Tracking invasive species

Smithsonian Environmental 

Research Center—Modern trans­portation and a warmer planet 

create fertile water for destructive 

invasive species. But with a 

newly-launched online database—

NEMESIS—the Smithsonian 

Environmental Research Center 

provides scientists and students 

around the world with a tool 

to explore compromised local 

ecosystems like the Chesapeake 

Bay and more sweeping global and 

national waterway threats.

Programs To Inform 

and Inspire Research

Over 75 percent of the world’s population lives near a coastline, and millions 

more people depend on the ocean for 

food and recreation. Yet ocean health 

is increasingly threatened. What’s 

driving that change? How quickly is it 

accelerating? The Tennenbaum Marine 

Observatories, the first global network 

of coastal ecological observatories, 

will use sophisticated technology in 

multiple sites to measure ecosystem 

change over time and space. Their 

data will inform policy and influence 

generations of scientists. The Observatories are made possible by a gift from 

Smithsonian National Board member 

Michael Tennenbaum—an avid diver—

and his wife Suzanne. “I was stunned 

to learn that this data gathering hadn’t 

been done on a large scale and in a 

scientific fashion,” says Tennenbaum. 

“Billions of dollars of economic activity 

are being influenced by opinion not 

backed by statistics. It’s past time for 

that to change.”

Michael E. Tennenbaum

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What do you get 

when you combine 

ancient art, modern 

science, and the 

night sky?

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African Cosmos: Stellar Arts.

Who knew that every star makes its own 

sound, each as distinct as a fingerprint? 

That’s just one lesson from African Cosmos: 

Stellar Arts, a groundbreaking 2012 exhibition 

and publication developed by the National 

Museum of African Art that explored African 

cultural astronomy and how it intersects 

with ancient and contemporary African arts.

“African Cosmos emphasizes Africa’s contributions to the 

history of knowledge,” says exhibition curator Christine 

Mullen Kreamer. “How have Africans used their 

knowledge of the skies to chart their course through 

the physical landscape and to regulate agricultural and 

ritual calendars? How have African artists drawn on 

the sun, moon, stars, rainbows, and lightning to create 

great art?” The show featured more than 100 works of 

art from ancient to contemporary times that addressed 

these questions and others. 

The collective strengths of the Smithsonian were 

brought to bear as experts Institution-wide collaborated 

with the museum on cultural astronomy educational 

programs. The American Indian museum held a panel 

discussion on cultural astronomy. The Air and Space 

museum loaned a portable planetarium for a program 

they developed about the African sky. The Hirshhorn’s 

ArtLab+ worked with teens to document the event 

on video, and an astrophysicist from the Smithsonian 

Astrophysical Observatory spoke on Music of the Stars. 

“The exhibition resonated with anyone who was ever 

impressed by the beauty of the night sky and wondered 

about our place within the vast universe,” says Kreamer, 

“and that describes just about all of us.”

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South African artist Gavin Jantjes’ untitled 

painting, exhibited in African Cosmos, references 

a Khoi San myth about a girl dancing around an 

evening fire. She threw glowing embers skyward, 

where they remained as the Milky Way. 

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Smithsonian art 

stories of 2012

Doug Aitken: SONG 1

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 

Garden—Who said art has to 

be locked inside museum walls? 

Certainly not the Hirshhorn and 

artist Doug Aitken, who temporarily 

transformed the museum's 

cylindrical facade into the world's 

greatest movie screen, choreographing a 360-degree flow of 

moving images to a dreamlike pop 

soundtrack. The monumental 

SONG 1 offered public art at its 

best—immersing it into the city's 

pulse and streetscape, inviting 

both art lovers and casual 

passersby to engage and discuss.

Ancient Arabia Revealed

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. 

Sackler Gallery—The Middle East, 

so often in the headlines, also 

can boast of seven millienia of art 

and art history, as shown in the 

eye-opening Roads of Arabia: 

Archaeology and History of the 

Kingdom of Saudia Arabia. 

The exhibition, whose first 

North American stop was the 

Smithsonian, consisted of more 

than 300 works of Arabian art, 

from geometric stone steles to 

ornate incense burn­-ers. It gave 

new insight into how art changed 

from pre-Islamic to Islamic 

times and added to our overall 

understanding of the region.

Art in this century?

Smithsonian American Art 

Museum—Gamer or not, you know 

video games as an industry that 

generates billions of dollars, but 

“Is it art?” The Art of Video Games 

asked us to consider the question, 

presenting the intricate interplay 

of graphics, technology, and 

storytelling that helped create the 

angular, simplistic Pac-Man (1980) 

and the fluid beauty of Flower

(2009). The exhibition, which 

displayed 80 games selected with 

the help of gamers in 175 countries, 

drew 700,000 visitors.

Learning by design 

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design 

Museum—Design as a tool to 

teach life skills is a key educational 

goal of this New York City-based 

museum and a new space it 

opened in Harlem to reach even 

greater numbers of city youth. 

Students and community members 

are given basic design tasks, and 

in the process of seeing a project 

through from idea stage to finished 

product they learn practical verbal 

and math skills as well as out-ofthe-box critical thinking.

Treasures To Hold 

In Trust for All

The simple silk suit, originally a plum 

color that age has faded to brown, still 

speaks clearly of its owner, patriot and 

diplomat Benjamin Franklin. Worn 

during his 1778 trip to France, Franklin 

knew the garment’s understated 

elegance would stand out in the opulent 

French court, symbolizing the character 

of a new nation. Douglas N. Morton

and his wife, Marilyn L. Brown, helped 

the Smithsonian acquire this treasure. 

And for Morton, a descendant of Betsy 

Ross and lifelong student of American 

history, sharing it is the whole point. 

“Seeing Franklin’s suit on display is like 

having a Founding Father in front of 

you. Visitors come to the Smithsonian 

to see the objects that tell the story 

of the United States—starting with the 

Star-Spangled Banner—and they don’t 

forget them. I hope these treasures 

inspire people to learn more about our 

nation’s heritage.”

Marilyn L. Brown and Douglas N. Morton

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Q:

When do 

snowboarding 

and dance 

parties teach 

serious lessons?

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When math comes alive!

Scientists and engineers do it, for sure.

But so do chefs, fashion designers, and

special effects directors. We’re talking about

math, and from March 7 to June 3, 2012,

the Smithsonian hosted Math Alive, an

exhibition showing just how math underpins

our daily lives.

Nearly 354,000 people—including students from

more than 230 schools—visited Math Alive! and,

through hands-on activities, saw the role math plays in

calculating how tall buildings stay up in strong winds

and the size of pipe needed to carry water. “Many

children fall out of science and engineering because

math is challenging for them,” says Under Secretary

for Science Eva J. Pell. “If we can help students see

how math has application as they are learning it, they

may be more willing to study it and pursue careers

that require it. Math Alive! took the abstraction out

of math and made it relevant to everyday life.”

To make learning fun, Math Alive! invited kids to ride

snowboards in 4-D, design and play their own video

games, jump into a fractal dance party, operate

simulations of NASA's latest robotics, and test their

bridge-building skills. The take-away? Pell hopes “that

kids left saying, ‘Wow, that was so cool. So that’s what

we are doing in math.’”

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Smithsonian education 

stories of 2012

Across borders and habitats

Smithsonian Tropical Research 

Institute—Classroom video 

conferencing between students 

in Phoenix and students in several 

Panamanian schools is proving 

a winning formula for teaching 

middle-schoolers about ecosystem 

diversity. At an age when peers 

matter most, the students 

take field trips and do research 

projects in their respective natural 

and cultural habitats, then ask 

each other questions and share 

experiences online in the year-long 

experiential program, Desert to 

Rainforest.

Teachers’ Night turns 20

Smithsonian Center for Learning 

and Digital Access—The annual 

Teachers' Night—celebrated 

at the Smithsonian American Art 

Museum and National Portrait 

Gallery with museum educators 

and exhibits—has drawn tens of 

thousands of teachers from across 

the nation in its 20-year history. 

The teachers become Smithsonian 

ambassadors, sharing with their 

colleagues back home ways to use 

this vast, free online and in-person 

resource to enrich their students' 

learning experiences.

21st-century stargazers

Smithsonian Astrophysical 

Observatory and Smithsonian 

Affiliations—Middle and high 

school students in under-served 

districts across the nation learned 

how to use robotic telescopes and 

computer technologies just like 

professional astrophysicists with 

Youth Capture the Colorful Cosmos, 

a program of the Observatory 

and 15 Smithsonian affiliate 

museums. Students also created 

astro-photography exhibitions, 

giving them a key of their own 

making to unlock the mysteries 

of the Universe.

Global outreach

Smithsonian Center for Learning 

and Digital Access—Young 

inventors everywhere answered 

a challenge to invent a household 

item that makes life easier. 

Turns out the best and brightest 

solutions came from kids all over 

the world, including Turkey, Taiwan, 

India, and the U.S. The challenge 

shows what is possible when 

the Smithsonian joins the breadth 

and depth of its expertise with 

the reach of new online education 

partner ePals, whose web portal 

is used by one million schools 

worldwide.

Answering The Call, 

Investing In The Future

Dorothy E. Ebersbach went where 

she was needed. She was one of the 

first women trained to fly American 

military aircraft in World War II, 

and later she put her nursing degree 

to work immunizing children against 

polio. A recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal, the highest award 

Congress bestows on civilians, she 

was also a member of the Friends 

of the Smithsonian for more than 30 

years. And when she passed away 

in 2011, Ebersbach left a generous 

bequest to the Institution. In keeping 

with her status as a pioneering aviator, a portion supports the National 

Women in Aviation Collection. The 

remainder builds the Institution’s 

endowment, giving the Smithsonian 

the flexibility to answer the call 

and direct the dollars where they 

are needed. 

Dorothy E. Ebersbach

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Where can 

creatures who can’t 

talk tell a great 

American story?

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At the National 

Zoo’s newest exhibition, 

American Trail.

High atop Washington’s Rock Creek Parkway, 

America’s emblematic bald eagle and the 

dark raven immortalized by Edgar Allen 

Poe form part of a living tableau. Joined by 

majestic gray wolves, California sea lions, 

and a seal once trained for recovery missions 

by the United States Navy, they inhabit the 

American Trail, a new exhibit at the National 

Zoological Park showcasing the diversity of 

North American species.

Highlighting animals back from the brink of extinction, 

the exhibit makes room for ducks, geese, river otters, 

and beavers. New pools with below- and above-water 

viewing access let visitors enjoy delicate sea ballets by 

the many species who spend time in water. The animals 

gather on heated beaches, get regular check-ups, and 

benefit from the best practices in animal care. Designed 

to LEED standards, the American Trail operates using 

sustainable practices.

“The exhibit features the ambassador animals of 

America,” says Ed Bronikowski, senior curator in the 

Zoo’s department of Animal Programs. “And the 

rock- and seascapes—reminiscent of the northwestern 

United States—are exceptional. The Trail tells an 

American story.” To make learning fun for kids, planners 

added a “get your feet wet” tidal pool with waves and 

the occasional water squirt. On a hot summer’s day, 

it’s the most popular place at the Zoo.

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By the numbers

More people than ever before

engaged with the Smithsonian in

2012—through exhibitions, websites,

social media, educational outreach,

research programs, and events.

In the Rhode River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, Smithsonian

Environmental Research Center biologists seine for specimens as

part of a long-term study tracking the health of the ecosystem and

the impact of non-native species.

30 Million In-person Visitors

46 Traveling Exhibitions on View in 455 Locations in 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Guam

89 New Exhibitions

2,029 Free Educational Resources on SmithsonianEducation.org

209 Facebook and Twitter Accounts

1,944 Peer-reviewed Publications

Approximately 137 Million Collection Objects

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Five Most Visited Museums

1 National Museum of Natural History 7.6 million 2 National Air and Space Museum 6.8 million 3 National Museum of American History 4.8 million

4 Smithsonian National Zoo 2.3 million 5 National Museum of the American Indian 1.6 million

102.6 Million Unique Visitors at 143 Websites

565,372 Folklife Festival Visitors

Research in 94 Countries

6,206 Volunteers

175 Affiliate Organizations in 40 States, Puerto Rico, and Panama

4.5 Million Educational Program Attendees

67,506 Downloads of Smithsonian Mobile App

82,661 Friends of the Smithsonian

512 Fellows and 578 Research Associate

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In 2012, the Board 

of Regents focused 

on advancing the 

Smithsonian’s mission 

in the face of ongoing 

economic uncertainty 

and political change. Guided by its new 

chair, France A. Córdova, it furthered 

the ambitious goals of the strategic plan 

through engaged oversight and a 

constructive partnership with Secretary 

Clough and his leadership team.

The Regents recognize their responsibility to secure the 

financial resources necessary for the Smithsonian to 

remain relevant and strong. Guided by the Congressional Regents, the Board made the Smithsonian’s case 

for increasingly scarce federal resources. In parallel, 

leadership by the Citizen Regents helped advance 

a national fundraising effort and provided expertise 

and strategic guidance to grow Smithsonian business 

and social media initiatives and the endowment. 

Investing in this public-private partnership continues 

to be an investment in the nation and its future.

The National Museum of African American History 

and Culture now under construction on the National 

Mall will tell a vital part of America’s story. A renovated 

Arts and Industries Building will soon open its doors 

to visitors. The Board actively oversaw these two major 

projects and their continued progress. It maintained 

a strong focus on ensuring the continued excellence 

of research and educational programs. It encouraged 

the implementation of the ambitious strategic plan. In 

an era of rapid changes in technology, the Board gave 

its strong support to Secretary Clough’s initiative to 

create a more digitally accessible Smithsonian for all.

The Board renewed its leadership by electing 

as Vice Chair Regent John McCarter, former president 

and CEO of Chicago’s Field Museum and a citizen 

of Illinois. He joins Shirley Ann Jackson and Chair 

France A. Córdova as a member of the Executive 

Committee. In January 2013, the Board welcomed 

as new Regents Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma 

and former Ambassador Barbara Barrett, a citizen 

of Arizona.

Board of Regents Report

Above left: France A. Córdova, Chair, Smithsonian Board 

of Regents. 

Above right: The words of the Declaration of Independence, 

part of the exhibition Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: 

Paradox of Liberty, presented by the National Museum 

of African American History and Culture and the Thomas 

Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, and shown at the 

National Museum of American History.

With forward-looking leadership guided by the 

vision of the Smithsonian’s strategic plan, the Board 

continues to actively steward the progress of this 

uniquely American Institution, for the benefit of the 

nation and the world.

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Endowment Report

Fiscal year ending September 30, 2012

The Smithsonian’s endowment objective is to generate

sufficient returns over the long term to provide stable

and growing payouts, while prudently managing risk.

Over the past 10 years, the Endowment grew

from $552.2 million to $1,072.3 million, with annual

net investment returns of 8.2 percent. Annual payout

from the Endowment increased from $34.2 million

10 years ago to $57.7 million for this fiscal year, providing a cumulative $437.1 million for program support

and operations.

The Endowment has benefited from the addition

of alternative investments, its broad diversification,

and active management. The asset allocation represents

a higher overall allocation to equities, investments

in hedge funds to reduce risk and potentially increase

diversification, and real asset investments to provide

a hedge against inflation. Performance consistently

compares favorably against the policy benchmark,

which represents a blend of asset-weighted indices in

the portfolio.

Asset Allocation

as of september 30, 2012

■ Global Equity

■ Emerging Markets

■ Hedge Funds

■ Private Equity & Venture Capital

■ Real Assets

■ Fixed Income & Cash 35%

24%

11%

10% 10%

10%

Comparative Performance

as of september 30, 2012

14%

12%

10%

8%

6%

4%

2%

0%

Trailing 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years

■ Smithsonian Endowment

■ Policy Benchmark

Endowment Value Over Time

fiscal years

$1,200

1,000

800

600

400

200

0

2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012

in millions of dollars

Endowing Leadership

Ensures the Future

“I really hope this gift will be seed money,”

says Dame Jillian Sackler, D.B.E.,

who recently created an endowment

to support the position of director

and programs at the Arthur M. Sackler

Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art.

“We want to ensure that the galleries

always have visionary leadership,

and are always able to present

contemporary Asian art that is a

vital counterpart to the ancient arts

on display. Building cross-cultural

bridges is more important than ever,

and the Smithsonian name allows us

to go places no one else has gone,

and borrow artifacts that no one else

could. I hope that this gift will lead to

more support and a larger endowment

so the Institution can continue to

draw visitors with exhibits that are

surprising and exciting and extend our

understanding of the world.”

Dame Jillian Sackler, D.B.E.

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Financial Report

Fiscal year ending September 30, 2012

The Smithsonian’s financial results for fiscal year 2012

were the best in more than five years. Significant

increases in contributions, up by more than $51 million,

and the strong performance of the endowment portfolio

led to an overall increase of $264 million in net assets

during the year.

The Smithsonian receives funding from federal

government appropriations, other governmental

entities, and private sources. Public dollars conserve

our national collections; sustain basic research;

educate the public; operate, maintain, and protect the

large Smithsonian museum and research complex;

and provide other administrative and support services.

Private funds leverage federal dollars and are

an investment in the Smithsonian’s people, places,

programs, and treasures. These funds provide the

critical difference for endowing positions, carrying

out innovative research, developing and building new

facilities, opening creative exhibitions, reaching out

to America’s diverse communities, and expanding and

strengthening national collections.

The 2012 annual audit was conducted by KPMG

LLP. For a complete set of audited financial statements,

contact the Office of the Comptroller at 202.633.7250. Financial Activity

in millions of dollars, fy 2012 and 2011

2012 2011

Operating Revenue $1,244 $1,150

Operating Expenses 1,033 993

Increase in Operating Net Assets 211 157

Increase in Other Assets 53 (57)

Total Increase in Net Assets 264 100

Financial Position

in millions of dollars, fy 2012 and 2011

total funds

Trust Federal 2012 2011

Assets $2,224 $1,572 $3,796 $3,516

Liabilities 334 423 757 741

Net Assets 1,890 1,149 3,039 2,776

smithsonian enterprises report

Smithsonian Enterprises provides unrestricted funds

to the Institution and its museums through the

operation of revenue-generating activities that include

museum stores, restaurants, IMAX theaters, the

Smithsonian Catalog, Smithsonian and Air & Space

magazines and associated websites, Smithsonian

Channel, Smithsonian Books, product licensing, and

travel programs for adults, families, and students.

Smithsonian Enterprises contributed $29.5 million

in net gain to the Institution in fiscal year 2012, an

increase of 1.4% over 2011, on revenues of $142.5

million—the sixth consecutive year of net gain growth.

Smithsonian Magazine unveiled a redesign and new

editorial focus, engaging noted writers and photographers and adding travel, food, style, and design

sections. The changes are redefining the magazine’s

look and appeal for its seven million readers. The

magazine also launched an enhanced, digital edition

for Apple and Android platforms, which has been

downloaded more than 100,000 times.

Growth in Net Assets

in millions of dollars, over five years

2008

2009

2010

2012

2011

$2,394

$2,473

$2,676

$3,039

$2,776

Expenses

in percent, fy 2012

■ Salaries & Benefits

■ Other Operating Expenses

■ Capital Expenses

45%

39%

16%

Revenues

in percent, fy 2012

■ Federal Appropriations

■ Contributions & Private Grants

■ Government Grants & Contracts

■ Investment Earnings

■ Business Activities

■	 Other

3% 3%

19%

11%

6%

58%

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Philanthropy Report

Fiscal year ending September 30, 2012

As this report illustrates, the generosity of individual

donors, corporations, and foundations is essential for

the Smithsonian to transform itself for the 21st century,

realize the vision set forth in its strategic plan, and

achieve its full potential.

These gifts allow the Smithsonian to strengthen

national collections, create dynamic exhibitions,

employ the latest technology, lead research on issues

critical to humankind, and innovate on site and online

in ways that inspire lifelong learning in people of all

backgrounds and ages.

The Smithsonian gratefully acknowledges the many

individuals, corporations, and foundations whose

contributions are vital to the Smithsonian’s ambitious

vision to educate and inspire future generations.

Information on the sources and uses of private

dollars contributed to the Smithsonian in 2012 is

provided in the graphs and tables below.

Digital Enterprises published two new apps,

The Space Shuttle Era, and GoSmithsonian Visitors

Guide, with maps, floor plans, daily events, and

shopping and eating information. Smithsonian.

com’s monthly unique visitors grew by nearly 90

percent over last year.

Smithsonian Channel won an Emmy for

Outstanding Science and Technology Program

for Decoding Immortality, a documentary about

Nobel Prize-winning biologist Elizabeth Blackburn

and her work with an enzyme that can keep

cells young forever. The Emmy is the third for

the Channel.

Smithsonian Books’ facsimile edition of

The Jefferson Bible received positive reviews

and was reprinted three times.

Retail Group marked the arrival of the Space

Shuttle Discovery with an expanded merchandise

selection for the thousands of people visiting

the spacecraft at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy

Center. The group had record sales of Cherry

Blossom merchandise for the 100th anniversary

year. The majority of merchandise offered for sale

in Smithsonian stores is now made in America.

Licensing entered into new arrangements with

Subway, Segway, Danbury Mint, and others,

and continued to expand books published in

partnership with Dorling Kindersley. Licensing’s

Dino Tablet was named Game of the Year by

Creative Child Magazine. Smithsonian Libraries Imaging Technician Stefaan Hurts

prepares to digitize a rare volume in the libraries’ collection.

Purpose of Funds Raised

in millions of dollars

■ $53.6 Facilities & Public Spaces

■ 47.7 Museums &

Research Centers,

General Support

■ 45.7 Exhibitions, Education

& Public Programs

■ 24.1 Smithsonian,

General Support

■ 23.5 Research

■ 14.9 Acquisitions & Collections

$209.5 Total

26%

23% 22%

11%

11%

7%

Funds Raised by Source

in millions of dollars 4%

■ $119.7 Individuals

■ 48.7 Corporations

■ 32.9 Foundations

■ 8.2 Other

$209.5 Total

23%

57%

16%

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Leadership Gifts

Building a bright future for the Smithsonian

We are grateful to 2012’s leadership 

donors, those who have made gifts 

and pledges of $1 million or more.

people

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s $2 million grant 

to the National Museum of African American History 

and Culture helps establish a strong foundation for 

collections stewardship at the new museum. The funds 

will support new positions of objects conservator, 

photographs curator, and film archivist, and establish 

a curatorial and conservation intern and fellows 

program, all for three and a half years. The professional 

positions provide essential collections management 

capacity as the museum prepares for its 2015 opening. 

The student opportunities are an investment in the 

future of promising young scholars. For more than 30 

years, the Mellon Foundation has partnered with the 

Smithsonian on a wide range of initiatives.

The Coca-Cola Foundation 

A $2 million contribution from The Coca-Cola 

Foundation advances three Smithsonian priorities. 

It launches an African curator-in-residence program 

that will bring new scholarship to the National 

Museum of African Art, helps design and build the 

National Museum of African American History and 

Culture, and helps renovate the seals and sea lions 

area within the National Zoological Park’s American 

Trails exhibition. The Coca-Cola Company has been a 

Smithsonian Corporate Member since 1989. Support 

from the company and its foundation has benefited 

the construction of the National Museum of the 

American Indian and many 

other Smithsonian museums 

and programs.

Small World Institute Fund at Silicon 

Valley Community Foundation 

Frank H. Levinson’s gift establishes an endowed 

chair in Global Forest Science for the Smithsonian 

Tropical Research Institute and the Smithsonian 

Institution Global Earth Observatories. The Observatories’ global network of almost 50 forest research 

and monitoring stations on five continents furthers 

Smithsonian efforts to gather quantitative, long-term 

information on the dynamics of tropical forests and 

biodiversity. The gift is made through the Small 

World Institute Fund, a donor-advised fund of the 

Silicon Valley Community 

Foundation. Frank Levinson is a 

Smithsonian National Board 

alumnus and chairs the Institute’s 

advisory board. He has long 

been a generous benefactor of 

the Institute and its Global Earth 

Observatories.

places

Annenberg Foundation 

The Annenberg Foundation’s gift of $1 million to the 

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden supports 

the design and construction of a dramatic new space 

for learning and engagement, a seasonal inflatable 

structure. The 14,000-square-foot temporary space 

will turn the museum’s central plaza into a place to host 

exhibitions and programs and nurture dialogue and 

exchange on issues in contemporary art and culture. The 

Annenberg Foundation has supported exhibitions, projects, and programs across the Smithsonian since 1977. 

Barbara and Craig Barrett 

With their gift of $1 million to the National Museum 

of Natural History, Barbara and Craig Barrett help 

establish the museum’s science education center. The 

center will engage visitors in scientific research, using 

museum specimens and the same methods employed 

by career scientists. In recognition of their generosity, 

the facility’s Focused Investigation Lab will be named 

in the Barretts’ honor. Barbara Barrett is a Smithsonian 

Regent, an alumna of 

the Smithsonian National 

Board, and a member 

of the museum’s 

Advancement Committee and Gemstone 

Collectors Group.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

In memory of Mrs. Anne Chenault, Bloomberg 

Philanthropies gave $1 million to support design and 

construction of the National Museum of African 

American History and Culture. The gift honors the 

mother of Bloomberg Philanthropies trustee Ken 

Chenault, a museum council member. When it opens 

in 2015, the new facility will help tell America’s whole 

story to visitors from across the nation and around 

the world. The donor’s previous philanthropy has 

benefited the National Museum of the American 

Indian, Hirshhorn Museum 

and Sculpture Garden, 

and Cooper-Hewitt, 

National Design Museum.

Dr. and Mrs. T.B. Boyd III and Family

The R.H. Boyd Company 

A $1 million gift to the National Museum of African 

American History and Culture by Dr. and Mrs. T.B. 

Boyd III and their family represents a major contribution 

toward the completion of the new building on the 

National Mall. In 1896, the Boyd family founded 

a publishing company, which generations of family 

members have grown into a diversified business. Along 

with their monetary donation, the Boyds are making 

a gift of historic artifacts related to the R.H. Boyd 

Company. These items support the museum’s commitment to tell the story of African American businesses 

and their contributions to our nation. These are 

the Boyd family’s first gifts to the Smithsonian and 

the museum. 

Margaret A. Cargill Foundation 

A $3 million gift to the National Museum of Natural 

History from the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation 

makes possible the construction of the museum’s new 

science education center and content development 

within it. An additional challenge grant from the 

foundation has the potential to increase this gift. When 

the center opens, its Margaret A. Cargill Collections 

Zone will give students and visitors the opportunity 

to use collections and technology to explore and 

understand the natural world. The late Margaret 

Cargill long supported 

the Smithsonian and 

the National Museum 

of the American Indian.

The Ford Foundation

A grant of $7.5 million to the National Museum of 

African American History and Culture from The Ford 

Foundation funds the design and development of a 

gallery that will highlight the historical era that began 

with Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. Visitors to The 

Ford Foundation Beyond 1968 Gallery will explore how 

the quest for racial equality has helped shape popular 

culture, education, entertainment, politics, and social 

policy for four decades. The foundation has previously 

supported this museum, the National Museum of 

the American Indian, and many other Smithsonian 

museums, research centers, and programs.

Mars, Incorporated

A $5 million gift from Mars, Incorporated helps create 

American Enterprise, an exhibition at the National 

Museum of American History that will engage visitors 

in learning how this nation has become one of the 

world’s largest and most influential economies. The 

exhibition will open in 2015 in The Mars Hall of 

American Business. Mars, Incorporated is a Smithsonian Corporate Member. In addition to this gift, the 

company and the Mars family have for many years 

generously supported the Smithsonian and its museums 

and research centers including the National Zoological Park, National Air and Space Museum, National 

Museum of the American 

Indian, and Smithsonian Tropical 

Research Institute.

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James L. and Juliette McNeil 

Through their gift of $1 million to the National Museum 

of African American History and Culture, James L. and 

Juliette McNeil support the new museum building’s 

design and construction. Their gift helps ensure that 

the museum will tell vital stories of African American 

accomplishment from the earliest days of settlement 

on this continent 

through the Civil Rights 

Movement and beyond. 

The gift is the McNeils’ 

first to the Smithsonian 

and the museum. 

The Rockefeller Foundation 

A $2 million grant from The Rockefeller Foundation 

will help bring history to life at the National 

Museum of African American History and Culture. 

The funds make possible the Rockefeller Foundation 

Panorama of the Modern Civil Rights Movement 

and Interactive Lunch Counter, part of a gallery that 

immerses visitors in learning about the migration 

of African Americans from the South, the Harlem 

Renaissance, and the Civil Rights Movement. 

Past foundation grants have supported the design 

and construction of the museum’s new building and 

many other exhibitions, programs, and initiatives 

across the Smithsonian.

Deborah Sara Santana

Deborah Sara Santana’s $1 million gift for design 

and construction of the National Museum of African 

American History and Culture helps the project make 

progress toward its anticipated 2015 opening. The 

new museum will be a place where all Americans can 

learn about the richness and diversity of the African 

American experience, what it 

means to our lives, and 

how it has shaped this nation. 

This is Deborah Santana’s first 

gift to the Smithsonian and 

the museum.

programs

ExxonMobil 

With its gift of $1 million, ExxonMobil helped bring 

to America for the first time recent archaeological 

finds from the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient trade 

routes and pilgrimage roads. The sponsorship helped 

fund Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the 

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the Arthur M. Sackler 

Gallery. Additional funds supported the exhibition’s 

tour of other U.S. cities. ExxonMobil has been a 

member of the Smithsonian Corporate Membership 

Program for more than 

a decade.

Dr. Leonard M. Greene

A gift of $1 million from the Institute for 

SocioEconomic Studies to the National Air and Space 

Museum commemorates the late Dr. Leonard M. 

Greene, the Institute’s founder and first president. 

Greene and the company he founded, Safe Flight 

Instrument Corporation, invented many devices that 

improved flight safety, including the stall warning 

indicator. The gift builds an 

endowment that allows the 

museum’s director to carry out 

priority projects, including 

educational programming and 

internships.

Peter B. Kibbee 

Peter B. Kibbee was for 28 years a staff member at 

the National Zoological Park. His commitment of 

$1.1 million to the Smithsonian Conservation Biology 

Institute is the largest gift yet received by the Front 

Royal research facility and provides support for its 

conservation breeding and science programs. A portion 

of the gift will underwrite the Smithsonian-Mason 

School of Conservation, a vital part of the Smithsonian’s 

commitment to training the next generation of 

conservation biologists and 

sustaining a biodiverse planet. 

Peter Kibbee is a longtime 

Smithsonian member and 

has supported the Institute’s 

Clouded Leopard project.

Leadership Gifts

Building a bright future for the Smithsonian

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Life Technologies Foundation 

Sponsorship support of $3 million from the Life 

Technologies Foundation enables the National 

Museum of Natural History to introduce its on site 

and online visitors to the technology-driven genomics 

revolution in an exhibition planned to open in 2013. 

The exhibition will examine the Human Genome 

Project, the pioneering international research effort 

that sequenced and mapped the human genome, and 

highlight using hands-on 

experiments and activities the 

ethical and social challenges 

posed by this new, 21stcentury field of science.

Lockheed Martin 

Lockheed Martin’s $15 million gift to the National 

Air and Space Museum continues the company’s 

support of the museum and its activities. One of the 

museum’s most popular destinations, the Lockheed 

Martin IMAX Theater, helps inspire future generations 

of innovators and technology pioneers with programs 

about science, technology, engineering, math, and 

our nation’s air and space history. Lockheed Martin 

sponsors the museum’s annual Space Day. The 

company has generously supported the National 

Postal Museum and many other Smithsonian museums, centers, and programs, and it contributed to 

the construction of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Los Alamos National 

Laboratory Foundation

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation’s 

$1.5 million contribution to the Smithsonian Science 

Education Center benefits the Center’s Leadership 

and Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) 

initiative. The funds match a five-year U.S. Department 

of Education grant and enable students and teachers 

affiliated with eight regional centers to participate 

in a national study evaluating the effectiveness of the 

LASER initiative. LASER is a comprehensive, researchbased science education program that reaches 75,000 

students and 3,000 teachers across the nation and 

helps districts and states build leadership, commitment, and preparation 

for innovative science 

teaching.

Monsanto

Monsanto’s gift of $2 million to the National Museum 

of American History helps develop and build the 

planned American Enterprise exhibition. Scheduled to 

open in 2015, American Enterprise tells the story 

of progress and ingenuity in agriculture as part of the 

larger story of the nation’s business and economic 

history. Monsanto’s prior gifts to the Smithsonian 

have benefitted the 

American History 

museum’s Hands-On 

Science Center.

Pearson Foundation 

The Pearson Foundation this year donated funds, 

hardware and software, and services valued at more 

than $1 million to the Smithsonian Center for Learning 

and Digital Access in support of the Next Generation 

Learning program. Since 2010, the program has 

engaged teachers and teens in workshops at eight 

Smithsonian museums in which participants have 

explored collections and exhibitions using digital media 

and creating original digital works they share with 

others. In addition to engaging thousands of participants, putting new media to work in museum learning, 

and supporting media labs at the Hirshhorn Museum 

and Sculpture Garden and the National Postal 

Museum, the program is 

paving the way for future 

Centers for Innovation in 

Smithsonian museums. 

Valerie and Jack Rowe

Valerie and Jack Rowe’s $1 million gift to the National 

Museum of the American Indian will further its 

educational mission at the museum in New York City. 

With these funds, the museum will be able to expand 

its educational facilities and programs for New 

York-area youth. Valerie Rowe chairs the board of the 

National Museum 

of the American 

Indian-New York. 

The Rowes have 

been committed 

friends of the 

museum since 2005.

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Alice and David Rubenstein 

Alice and David Rubenstein’s gift of $4.5 million to 

the National Zoological Park supports its giant panda 

exhibit and giant panda research and reproduction 

science. In honor of this contribution, the zoo’s panda 

habitat will be named for the Rubenstein family for 

five years and panda conservation training fellowships 

will be named for David M. Rubenstein. Alice Rubenstein is a board member of the National Museum 

of the American Indian. David Rubenstein is a Smithsonian Regent and a board member of the American 

History and Natural 

History museums. 

Since 1999, the 

Rubensteins have made 

philanthropic gifts to 

the American History, 

Natural History, 

and other Smithsonian 

museums. 

Shell 

Shell’s gift of $1 million to the Smithsonian Science 

Education Center makes possible the vital and 

innovative work of its Leadership and Assistance for 

Science Education Reform (LASER) initiative. The 

contribution matches a five-year U.S. Department of 

Education grant that funds a national research study 

of LASER’s impact on student achievement, especially 

in lower-income urban and rural communities. 

Now reaching school districts serving 30 percent of 

the U.S. student population, the LASER initiative helps 

teachers bring science to life in their 

classrooms. Shell’s previous philanthropic support has benefitted the 

Center and the National Zoological Park.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 

The foundation’s $1 million grant to the National 

Museum of Natural History is its third in support of 

the Encyclopedia of Life. The Smithsonian-led global 

program is gathering information on the 1.9 million 

named species of animals, plants, and other life forms 

on Earth and presenting it on a single, open, multilingual website, eol.org. The Encyclopedia is a free 

resource for all—scientists, policy makers, educators, 

students, and curious citizens. Beginning with marine 

life, this grant expands the project’s scope to offer 

macroscopic data resources for analysis. The Sloan 

Foundation has also supported the museum-led Consortium for the Barcode of Life and projects at several 

other Smithsonian museums and programs.

Patty Stonesifer and Michael Kinsley 

Patty Stonesifer and Michael Kinsley’s gift of $1 

million to the National Museum of African American 

History and Culture helps the museum build its online 

presence and social media outreach. This gift will 

improve the museum’s website, Facebook page, and 

Twitter conversations, thereby encouraging lifelong 

learning, engaging audiences in active dialogue, and 

reaching out to new friends and potential donors. 

Stonesifer is a Smithsonian Regend and a former chair 

and vice chair of that board. Previous philanthropy 

by the couple has benefited a wide array of outreach 

projects across the Smithsonian.

United Soybean Board

A $1 million sponsorship from the United Soybean 

Board helps make possible American Enterprise, an 

exhibition at the National Museum of American 

History scheduled to open in 2015. The exhibition 

will share with visitors the dramatic story of the role 

of business and innovation 

in the United States from the 

mid-1700s to the present, 

including the development 

of agriculture.

Leadership Gifts

Building a bright future for the Smithsonian

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The World Bank 

Tiger conservationists hope to double wild tiger 

populations by 2022. A second grant of $1 million from 

The World Bank to the National Zoological Park’s 

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute continues 

to help achieve this goal. The grant supports the 

Global Tiger Initiative, an international alliance of 

governments, agencies, and private-sector organizations that have united to save wild tigers. It funds 

training for protected-area management teams in the 

13 countries where wild tigers still live, as well as 

online learning and peer exchanges that help teams 

share knowledge and apply expertise 

to their local situations. As a founding 

partner of the Initiative, 

the Bank first committed its support 

to the National Zoo in 2008.

treasures

J & AR Foundation

A $1 million gift from the J & AR Foundation honors 

the late Arthur Ross, a founding member, chairman, 

and honorary chairman emeritus of Cooper-Hewitt, 

National Design Museum’s Board of Trustees. His 

widow Janet Ross is a trustee of the foundation. 

The gift supports the museum’s renovations, which 

will create 60 percent more gallery space and a new 

National Design Library with a reading room named 

in honor of Arthur Ross. Through the Arthur Ross 

Foundation, Arthur Ross had established endowment 

funds to support 

the design and 

maintenance of the 

museum’s terrace, 

garden, and wroughtiron fence.

Joseph Manfred Ennis

Through his estate, Joseph Manfred Ennis bequeathed 

$1.7 million to the Smithsonian to acquire items 

to build the national philatelic collection and for the 

purchase of scientific research equipment. His gift 

to the National Postal Museum will enable acquisition 

of new philatelic treasures for the national collection, 

which will be displayed in the new stamp gallery 

scheduled to open in 2013. His gift for scientific equipment will further exploration of our universe by 

helping build the Giant Magellan Telescope, which 

will collect more light and provide better resolution 

than any telescope yet built.

Workers install the finial atop the highest point of the Arts 

and Industries Building, February 2013. The landmark, 1881 

building is scheduled to reopen during 2014. 

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Donors to the Smithsonian

Recognizing our Benefactors

Anonymous

Airbus

American Express

Annenberg Foundation

Barbara and Craig Barrett ■ ✚

Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Boeing Company

Dr. and Mrs. T.B. Boyd III 

and Family

The R.H. Boyd Company

Fleur Straus Bresler ● 

Dr. Peter Buck ●

Margaret A. Cargill Foundation

Mr. Kenneth A. Chenault ●

The Coca-Cola Foundation 

Jim and Janet Dicke ✚ ▲

Paul and Becky Dhyse

Dorothy E. Ebersback

ExxonMobil

The Ford Foundation

Ford Motor Company Fund

Friends of the National Zoo

Bill & Melinda Gates 

Foundation

Dr. Leonard M. Greene 

J & AR Foundation

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Peter B. Kibbee

David H. Koch ●

Robert and Arlene Kogod ■ ♦

Life Technologies Foundation

Lockheed Martin

Los Alamos National 

Laboratory Foundation

John D. and Catherine T. 

MacArthur Foundation

Elizabeth and Whitney 

MacMillan ✚ ●

John and Adrienne Mars ♦ ✚

Mars, Incorporated

Nan Tucker McEvoy ✚

James L. and Juliette McNeil

The Andrew W. Mellon 

Foundation

Gus and Deanne Miller 

and Family ✚ ●

Monsanto 

Paul Neely ♦ ✚

North Carolina Science 

Mathematics and 

Technology Center

Northrop Grumman 

Corporation

Pearson Foundation ▲

John L. Peterson 

Ms. Sanae Iida Reeves

The Rockefeller Foundation

The Honorable Ronald 

A. Rosenfeld and Mrs. 

Rosenfeld ✚ ●

Valerie and Jack Rowe ●

Alice and David 

Rubenstein ■ ♦ ●

Dame Jillian Sackler, D.B.E. ✚

Victoria and Roger Sant, 

The Summit Fund 

of Washington ■ ●

Deborah Sara Santana

Shell 

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Small World Institute Fund at 

Silicon Valley Community 

Foundation ✚ ●

Patty Stonesifer and 

Michael Kinsley ■ ♦ ●

Target

UnitedHealth Group

United Soybean Board

Walmart

Warner Bros.

Ms. Duncan Whittome

Mr. Mike Wilkins and 

Ms. Sheila Duignan ●

The World Bank

The Smithsonian gratefully 

acknowledges those donors 

who made gifts, payments 

on gifts, or pledges during 

the fiscal year 2012.

$1,000,000 or more

The Dom Pedro Aquamarine, the largest 

know, was added to the Natural History 

museum’s National Gem and Mineral 

Collection and is on permanent display near 

the Hope Diamond. 

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$500,000 or more

Anonymous

3D Systems, Inc. ▲

A+E Networks ▲

Mrs. Agnes M. Brown ●

Hacker and Kitty Caldwell ✚ ●

Citibank N.A.

Dennis O. Dixon

Education Collaboration Fund

Gabonese Republic

Lloyd E. Herman

Janine and J. Tomilson Hill ●

Lisina M. Hoch ✚

Houston Endowment, Inc.

The Kresge Foundation

Peter and Paula Lunder ✚

Microsoft Corporation

Lester S. and Enid W. Morse ●

Franklin D. Raines ●

Smithsonian Women's Committee

Siewchin Yong Sommer

The Speedwell Foundation/Michael 

and Jenny Messner and family

Terra Foundation for American Art

Harry Winston Hope Foundation, Inc.

Yale University

$100,000 or more

Anonymous

1923 Fund

3M

Lee and Elizabeth Ainslie ●

Altman Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Alward

The Argus Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Avery

BAE Systems

Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing ●

Ms. Gina Diez Barroso ●

Susan Wilky Baxter and 

Thomas A. Baxter

Kenneth E. Behring Family ✚

Ms. Gisela Beker

Betsy Berkshire

Jane and Raphael Bernstein/

Parnassus Foundation ●

Randy and Nancy Best

The Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust

Mr. Richard P. Bland

Booz Allen Hamilton

Ms. Carol J. Bresler

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Bresler 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Brodie ●

Marilyn L. Brown and 

Douglas N. Morton

Bente and Gerald E. Buck ●

Peggy and Ralph Burnet ✚ ●

Café Nicholson Fund

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz 

Foundation

Constance R. Caplan ●

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Caterpillar Foundation 

(Caterpillar, Inc.)

Kathleen A. and William J. Cavanaugh 

The Chickasaw Nation ▲

Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy 

and the Culinary Arts

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma ▲

Mr. and Mrs. A. James Clark

Clear Channel Radio ▲

Comcast ▲

Ms. Elizabeth J. Comstock ●

Conservation International

Ms. Edith W. Cooper

Council on Library and Information 

Resources

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Cullman, Jr. ✚

Mr. Jeffrey P. Cunard ●

Mr. Maurice J. Cunniffe ●

Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Deichmiller ▲

Bruce Del Mar

Department of Science and 

Technology, Republic of South Africa 

The William H. Donner Foundation, Inc.

DuPont

Ms. Nancy L. Eaton ●

Anne and Travis Engen ♦

Entertainment Software Association 

Foundation

Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Fifth & Pacific Companies, Inc.

First National Bank of Alaska

Mrs. Marilyn C. Frantsov

Freemind Ventures

Ms. Marilyn Friedman ●

Ms. Kathryn S. Fuller ●

Mr. Bill Gale

E. L. and Thelma Gaylord Foundation

GE Aviation

Genentech, Inc.

General Motors Foundation

Geomagic ▲

Doris and Henry R. George

Georgetown University

Ms. Linda R. Gooden (Lockheed 

Martin Corporation) ● ▲

Alice R. Gottesman ●

Peter and Rhondda Grant

The Grantham Foundation for the 

Protection of the Environment

Marilyn Grossman

James M. and Anita K. Guyette ●

Thomas W. Haas Foundation

Mr. Harry Hagendorf

Hakuta Family

Robert Harris and Susan Rothermund

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley 

Charitable Trust

Heritage Auction Galleries ▲

Alexandra and Paul Herzan ●

Mr. and Mrs. Allan M. Holt, 

The Hillside Foundation, Inc. ●

The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz 

Foundation for the Arts

Judy and Bob Huret ✚

Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. and 

Morris Washington, Ph.D. ■

Gregory D. and Jennifer Walston 

Johnson ✚

Ms. Anne B. Keiser and 

Dr. Douglas M. Lapp 

The Joan and Herb Kelleher 

Foundation ●

William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust

Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Land O'Lakes Foundation

Philip Lathrap

Mrs. Deane C. Laycock

Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak

Dr. Egbert G. Leigh, Jr.

Ms. Rosealie Lesser

Jeanne and Richard Levitt ●

Leon Levy Foundation

Rod Lewis and Family ●

H. Christopher Luce and Tina Liu ●

Frank and Susan Mars ●

Margery and Edgar Masinter ✚ ●

McDonald's Corporation

Alison McNally and Bobby German

Mr. and Mrs. James G. Mead

Mark & Brenda Moore and Family

Mr. Stan Moore

Charles H. and Helen S. Moriyama

Mystic Stamp Company ▲

National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Mr. Frank T. Nickell

Nissan North America, Inc.

Noyce Foundation

NYSE Euronext Foundation

The Olayan Group

Russell E. and Wendy Palmer ✚

Mary and John Pappajohn ●

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Pastrick

Everett P. and Andrea Paup

Jack and Rose Pelton ●

PEPCO

Pepco Energy Services, Inc. ▲

Ms. Debbie Petersen (James F. 

Petersen Charitable Fund)

Pitchfork Media ▲

PNC Foundation

Poor Richard's Charitable Trust ●

The Prudential Foundation

Raytheon Company

James Renwick Alliance

Si and Betty Robin

Roche Diagnostic Corporation ▲

John F. W. Rogers ●

Rolls-Royce North America Inc.

Susan and Elihu Rose

John and Virginia Sall ●

Ambassador and Mrs. Rockwell 

Schnabel ✚

June and Paul C. Schorr III ●

Shell Gabon

Susan Stein Shiva Foundation

Siemens Medical Systems, Inc. ▲

Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Silberstein

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Smith

Robert H. and Clarice Smith ●

Ms. Marcia L. Sprules

Earl W. and Amanda Stafford

The Stiller Foundation/Artists For Haiti

TD Bank Financial Group

Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw 

Charitable Trust

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Thompson

Time Warner Foundation

The Upton Trust

University of California at Irvine

Verizon Foundation 

The Abraham and Virginia Weiss 

Charitable Trust/Amy and 

Marc Meadows ●

Coralyn Wright Whitney

Warren and Barbara Winiarski 

(Winiarski Family Foundation)

symbol key ■ smithsonian regent ♦ smithsonian regents’ advancement committee member ✚ smithsonian national board member or alumnus

● smithsonian advisory board member ▲ in-kind gift (full or partial)

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Donors to the Smithsonian

Recognizing our Benefactors

$50,000 or more

Anonymous

97.1 WASH-FM ▲

Accenture ▲

Jan and Warren Adelson

(Adelson Galleries, Inc.) ●

Adobe Foundation ▲

Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Akre, Jr.

Anheuser-Busch Foundation

ARISE Magazine (This Day)

Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne

AT&T, Inc.

Bailey Lauerman ▲

Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Berns

BET Networks

The David Bohnett Foundation

Bombardier

Mark C. Bowers

The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston

Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Cafritz ✚ ●

Capital One

Cascade Foundation

Mr. James K. Cavanaugh

Census of Marine Life

C.F. Foundation, Inc. ✚

Chevron

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

Chihuly Publication Fund

Joe Clark ●

Converse Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

Joseph & Joan Cullman Conservation

Foundation Inc.

Mr. Ravenel Boykin Curry, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Dauer

DC Children and Youth Investment

Trust Corporation

Jeffrey and Joan DeBoer ●

Georgia and Michael de Havenon ●

Deutsche Bank

Dibner Charitable Trust of

Massachusetts

Eisai Inc.

John and Margot Ernst ●

Mr. Gordon E. Eubanks, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Evans, Jr. ●

FBR

Fluor Corporation

Mr. Cary J. Frieze and Mrs. Rose Frieze

The Funger Foundation, Norma Lee

and Morton Funger ●

Ken and Madge Gazzola

The Goda Family

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

Government Employees Insurance

Company (GEICO)

Frederick Hammersley Foundation

The Honorable Herbert J. Hansell

The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation

Ruth S. Holmberg ✚

William L. Hopkins and

Richard B. Anderson

Houston Zoo, Inc.

Institute of International Education

International Elephant Foundation

Ms. Janice M. Johnson

Ms. Madeleine Rudin Johnson

(The May and Samuel Rudin

Foundation) ●

Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Jue

Marion K. Kochi

The Korea Foundation

Claudia B. Kotchka ●

Aimee and Robert Lehrman ●

Thelma and Melvin Lenkin

Ms. May Liang and Mr. James Lintott ●

LivingSocial

Mrs. Karen F. Lowe

Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin

Christian L. and Edna M. March

Nancy Abeles Marks ●

Mr. and Mrs. Colin R. Masson ●

Constance Corcoran Miller ●

Ms. Jane M. Mitchell and

Mr. Jeffery S. Bland

MIX 107.3 FM ▲

Morris Animal Foundation

Motorola Solutions ▲

National Geographic Society

NIKE, Inc.

Nutrients for Life Foundation

Mr. Richard S. Paegelow

Stephen Parks

Barbara Rescher Perry

The Pinkerton Foundation

The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska ▲

Thomas and Jamie Pumpelly ●

The Reed Foundation

Richard H. Robb and Rebecca E. Crown

Mr. Joseph E. Robert, Jr. ●

Rockwell Collins

Donna and Marvin Schwartz

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Segal

Ms. Ruth O. Selig

Mr. James B. Sherwood and

Dr. Shirley Sherwood OBE

Ms. Mary Bise Simon

The Simons Foundation

Society for Conservation Biology

Steelcase Inc.

Stockman Family Foundation

Christopher Columbus’ return of the horse to the Americas changed everything for Indians. A Song for the Horse Nation

at the National Museum of the American Indian told this story and included this circa 1860 Lakota painted drum.

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Mr. and Mrs. Kelso F. Sutton ✚

Jane and Leopold Swergold

Phyllis M. Taylor ✚

Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation ✚ 

Charles and Geneva Thornton

Gary and Marie Thunem

Toshiba International Corporation

Lillian Scheffres Turner and 

Stephen R. Turner, Ph.D.

United Airlines ▲

Esme Usdan and James Snyder ●

H. van Ameringen Foundation

Van Cleef & Arpels

Viajes Mundomex S.A. de C.V.

Washington Post/KidsPost ▲

Wegmans Food Markets

The Weissman Family Foundation, Inc.

Whole Foods Market ▲

Mrs. Sheila Wolk

Wyeth Foundation for American Art

Judy Francis Zankel ●

Zoo New England

$10,000 or more

Anonymous

ABC7 / WJLA-TV ▲

Abramson Family Foundation

Academy of Motion Picture Arts 

and Sciences

Rodney and Michelle Adkins ✚

Advantage Waypoint

Advertising Educational Foundation

Aerojet

AES Corporation

AFCEA Educational Foundation

Mr. Douglas Ahlers ✚

AICPA

Alcoa Foundation

Mr. David C. Aldrich

Mr. Michael Aldrich

Ms. Carolyn Small Alper

Alston & Bird, LLP

Lucy and Gordon Ambach ✚

American Academy of Cosmetic 

Surgery

American Bar Association

The American College

American College of Bankruptcy

American College of Rheumatology

American Institute for Conservation 

of Historic and Artistic Works

The American Institute of Architects

The American Law Institute

American Numismatic Association

American Postal Workers Union, 

AFL-CIO

American Society of 

Anesthesiologists, Inc.

American Stamp Dealers Association

American Swiss Foundation

Amherst Foundation

Amway Corporation

Analysis Group Inc.

The Anders Foundation ✚ ●

Anela Kolohe Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Philip F. Anschutz ✚

Appian Corporation

Mr. James Armstrong and 

Mr. Larry Connelly

Arnold & Porter LLP

Arrangements Unlimited

Association of American Universities

Association of Zoos & Aquariums

Atlas Air Worldwide

BAND Foundation

Banfield Pet Hospital

S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation

Catherine and Ralph Benkaim

Tamra and Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. ●

Ann E. Berman and Daniel J. Feld ●

David Bermant Foundation

Diane and Norman Bernstein

Ms. Ann Bissell ●

Barbara and James Block ●

Bloomberg

Mr. William H. Bohnett ✚

Bonnie Plants, Inc. ▲

Ms. Mary Boone

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.

Mrs. Jacqueline L. Bradley and 

Mr. Clarence Otis

BrandLinkDC

Embassy of Brazil

Bristol Bay Native Corporation

BMI

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. J. Kevin Buchi

Deborah Buck

John and Rebecca Budd

Bui Gallery

Building Engineering 

& Science Talent, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Burka

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bytnar

Mr. Edward Ogden Cabot ●

Dr. Cesar A. Caceres

CACI International Inc

Conrad Cafritz Charitable Trust

Calista Corporation

Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant

Campbell Soup Company

Canadian National Railway Company

Mr. Donald A. Capoccia and 

Mr. Tommy Pegues

Dr. Gilberto Cárdenas (Enterprises 

Sin Fronteras LLC) ●

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

Carl Zeiss, Inc.

Carnegie Institution for Science

Cassaday and Company, Inc.

Giuseppe and Mercedes Cecchi

Mrs. David Challinor

Mr. John S. Chalsty

Chaney Foundation ●

Dr. David Chang

CINDY CHAO The Art Jewel Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. Purnendu Chatterjee 

(Chatterjee Charitable 

Foundation) ●

Christie's ▲

Percy and Sally Chubb Fund ●

Chugach Alaska Corporation

Ms. Jane Chwick

CIBC

Mr. Roland H. Cipolla II

Citigroup

City Year

Mr. Johnny F. Clark (Blue Mountain 

Animal Clinic)

Ms. Savanna M. Clark

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Claussen ✚

The Club of Rome

Dr. M. Annette and Alsie Cluff, Jr.

Mrs. Dale Mason Cochran

Abby Joseph Cohen ✚

Mr. Arthur Cohen (LaPlaca 

Cohen, Inc.) ●

Mr. Richard D. Cohen

Dr. Bruce B. Collette

Ann and John Collins

Malcolm Collins, Miles Collins, and 

Catherine Collins Masterson 

Ashley Jackson

Michael and Sandy Collins ●

Colorado River Indian Tribes

The Community Foundation for the 

National Capital Region

Computer Sciences Corporation 

Confederate Stamp Alliance

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz 

Indians ▲

Cornell University

Mr. Darrell Corti ▲

Dr. Camille O. Cosby and 

Dr. William H. Cosby, Jr. ●

Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana

Ms. Anne Covert

Covington & Burling

Crowell & Moring LLP

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Crown

Cubic Corporation

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Mr. Philip R. Currie

Daniel B. Curtis

Cvent Inc.

Mr. Eric Daniels ●

Julia and Frank Daniels, Jr. ✚

George David and Wendy Anne David

Mr. John A. De Luca

Debevoise & Plimpton

Mrs. George O. DeGele

Deloitte Services, LP

Dr. Marion Deshmukh and 

Dr. Ashok Deshmukh

Design Within Reach

Valerie and Charles Diker ●

Mr. Alan Dones

Miranda and Robert Donnelley 

(The Donnelley Foundation) ✚

Mr. Albert E. Dotson, Jr.

Donald J. and Helen D. Douglass

Dow AgroSciences LLC

The Dow Chemical Company 

Foundation

Doyon, Limited

The Max and Victoria Dreyfus 

Foundation Inc.

The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation

Duane Morris LLP

Helen and Ray Dubois

Ducks Unlimited Canada

Duke Energy

Earth Share

Earthwatch Institute ▲

Mr. and Mrs. Farhad F. Ebrahimi ●

Mr. Barney A. Ebsworth

Dean S. Edmonds Foundation

Kim and Al Eiber ●

El Tiempo Latino ▲

Electronic Consulting Services, Inc. 

(ECS)

Mr. George W. Elliott

Mrs. Miriam F. Ellsworth

ePals ▲

Epker-Sinha Foundation

E*TRADE Financial Corporation

Evergreen

Every Child By Two

■ smithsonian regent ♦ smithsonian regents’ advancement committee member ✚ smithsonian national board member or alumnus

● smithsonian advisory board member ▲ in-kind gift (full or partial) symbol key

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Donors to the Smithsonian

Recognizing our Benefactors

Exelon Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

FAMILY Magazine ▲

Mr. and Mrs. A. Huda Farouki 

(Anham USA, Inc.)

Dr. Maria A. Faust

Ms. Gabriela Febres-Cordero ●

FedEx Corporation

Christopher Feldmann and 

Laura Beauchamp

Winnie and Michael Feng

Alan and Lois Fern

Ferris Family Foundation

Nancy B. and Hart Fessenden

Field Museum of Natural History, 

Ms. Laura M. Sadler

FIFPro Services BV

Roger S. Firestone Foundation 

(Mr. John D. Firestone, 

Ms. Gay F. Wray) ✚ ●

Mr. and Mrs. William Fisher ♦ ✚

The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable 

Foundation

Barbara G. Fleischman ●

The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

Follett Corporation

Dr. Ella M. Foshay and 

Mr. Michael B. Rothfeld

Michael R. Francis ✚

Mr. and Mrs. John French III ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Claude Fresnel, Jr.

Mr. Richard Friedberg

Albert and Marion Friedlander

The Hon. and Mrs. William H. Frist, M.D., 

The Dorothy Cate 

& Thomas F. Frist Foundation ●

Mr. Alfredo Frohlich

Ms. Susan B. Fulton

Fundacion Bolivar Davivienda

Ms. Nancy Swift Furlotti 

(Furlotti Family Foundation)

Mr. Larry Gagosian 

(Gagosian Gallery, Inc.)

Ms. Brenda J. Gaines ✚

Gannett/USA TODAY

Shelby and Frederick Gans ✚ ●

Ms. Jennie Turner Garlington ●

Jeff and Mary Lynn Garrett

Mr. Thomas Gauron ▲

Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Gaylord II ✚ ●

GE Foundation

Gemalto

George Kriarakis & Associates Ltd.

The George Washington University 

Georgetown Cupcake ▲

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon P. Getty 

(Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation)

Giant Food Inc.

Drs. James Lowell Gibbs, Jr. and 

Jewelle Taylor Gibbs

The Girl Friends Incorporated

Girl Scouts of the USA

Global BAE Systems, Inc.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Global Health Technologies Coalition

S. Taylor Glover ●

Golden Family Foundation

Goldman Environmental Foundation

Mrs. Dorothy Tapper Goldman ●

Ms. Ronnyjane Goldsmith

Goodwin Procter LLP

The Gores Group, LLC

Mr. and Mrs. Marc A. Grainer

Lisa Sharf Green and Eric A. Green ●

Mr. and Mrs. Fred F. Gregory

Miljenko Mike Grgich

Mr. Graham Gund (Gund Partnership)

Haines Gallery

Mr. and Mrs. Brenton Halsey 

(Brenton and Lindsay Halsey 

Family Foundation)

The Frederic C. Hamilton Family 

Foundation ✚

Mr. Michael Armand Hammer 

(The Armand Hammer Foundation)

Mr. Steven K. Hamp ●

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.

Ms. Myra M. Hart and 

Dr. J. Kent Hewitt ✚ ●

Hartford Fire Insurance Company

Colonel Brodes Hartley and 

Mrs. Hartley

Roger D. Hathaway

Michael R. and Marlys G. Haverty 

Family Foundation Fund ✚

Office of Hawaiian Affairs

The Hearst Corporation

Ms. Bertie M. Heiner

Drue Heinz Trust

Highstar Capital Fund III LP

Mr. Rod Hildebrant and 

Mr. Matthew Meehan

Helen and Edward Hintz ✚

Mrs. Olga Hirshhorn ●

Ms. Elizabeth Hisey

HITT Contracting Inc.

Steven and Jane Hoch ✚ ●

Hogan Lovells

Mr. John R. Hoke III (Nike, Inc.) ●

Mr. Alan Holyoake

G. Scott Hong Charitable Trust

Ms. Edna M. Hoover

Ms. Patricia B. Horlacher

The Horowitz Family

Mr. Eric R. Horowitz

Lee Houchins

The HSC Foundation

Mr. Glenn Hutchins (Hutchins Family 

Foundation)

Miss Elizabeth Ann Hylton

The IanThom Foundation ● ▲

Dr. Gregory I. Ibe

IBM Corporation

The Institutes

Intel Foundation

Intellectual Property Owners 

Education Foundation

Invent Now, Inc.

Ms. Merit E. Janow ●

Jenner & Block, LLP

Mr. Richard G. Jennings IV 

(Mactaggart Third Fund)

Mr. Ted Joffe

John Hancock Life Insurance

Johnson & Johnson

Mr. and Dr. Albert B. Johnson II

Ms. Shirley Z. Johnson and Mr. 

Charles Rumph ●

Mr. and Ms. Terry L. Jones ●

Mr. Phinis Jones

The Joyce Foundation

Ms. Bonnie Menes Kahn

Mr. Jerome A. Kaplan

Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family 

Foundation, Inc./Scott Kaplan 

Belsky

Mr. Omar A. Karim

Sheldon and Audrey Katz

The Katzenberger Foundation, Inc.

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kemper 

(William T. Kemper Foundation) ✚

Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

B.J. Killian Foundation

Vince and Becky King

Ann and Gilbert H. Kinney ●

F.M. Kirby Foundation

Marty Kittrell

David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation

John S. and James L. Knight 

Foundation

Knoll, Inc.

Mr. William I. Koch ●

Kohler Co.

Koniag, Inc.

Lt. Col. and Mrs. William Karl Konze

Government of the Republic of Korea

The Honorable Colleen Kotelly and 

Mr. John T. Kotelly ●

KPMG LLP

Mr. George J. Kramer

Constance and Harvey Krueger ●

Mr. Mark A. Kuller

Kuoni Destination Management, Inc.

Ms. Nanette L. Laitman

Mr. Mark Lamia

Mr. and Mrs. Allan R. Landon ✚

The Lauder Foundation, Leonard 

and Evelyn Lauder Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Lauder

Betsy and David Lawer ✚ ●

Mr. and Mrs. Willis Lawrence

Mrs. Dorothy Lemelson, 

The Lemelson Foundation ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Levinas ●

Aaron and Barbara Levine

Drs. Jerrold Levy and Maria Arias

Lincoln Automotive

The Link Foundation

The Jacques & Yulla Lipchitz 

Foundation, Inc.

Ling Woo Liu

Mr. W. Curtis Livingston

Mr. Nicholas Lowry ●

LPL Financial Corporation

The Honorable Eugene A. Ludwig 

and Dr. Carol Ludwig

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. MacDonald ✚

Ms. Susan MacKeen and 

Mr. Kenneth M. Zemrowski

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Madigan 

(Madigan Family Foundation) ✚

Jean B. Mahoney ✚ ●

Ms. Phyllis Mailman (The Mailman 

Foundation, Inc.)

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Charles 

Malmgren

Barbara and Morton Mandel ●

Mr. Greg Manning

Mr. Terry Mazany (The Chicago 

Community Foundation)

MARPAT Foundation, Inc.

The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott 

Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Marriott III ●

Ms. Jacqueline Badger Mars

Linda A. Mars

Mary Martell and Paul M. Johnson

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Mr. Robin B. Martin ●

Mr. Mariano Martinez

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martucci ✚ ●

Mary Kay Cosmetics de Mexico, S.A.

Maryland Space Business Round 

Table Inc

Mr. David J. Mason

Ms. Marissa Mayer ●

The Honorable Michael J. McCaffrey

Terry and Susan McCallister

Bruce and Jolene McCaw Family ●

Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation

Lowell and Dorothy McDysan

McGuire Woods, LLP

Mrs. Marilee McNeilus

Mrs. Anne Welsh McNulty 

(The John P. and Anne Welsh 

McNulty Foundation)

MedAxiom

Ms. Anne Mehringer and 

Mr. John T. Beaty

Mr. James R. Mellor (Mellor Family 

Foundation)

The Honorable Marilyn Logsdon 

Mennello and Michael A. Mennello

Mr. and Mrs. Barry M. Meyer 

(The Barry and Wendy Meyer 

Foundation) ●

Ms. Elizabeth E. Meyer 

(The Island Fund)

Debbie Millman/Sterling Brands

The Cynthia and George Mitchell 

Foundation

Robert Mnuchin and Dominique Lévy

Ronald and Deborah Monark ●

The Ambrose Monell Foundation

The Claude Moore Charitable 

Foundation

Ms. Bridget Moore 

(D.C. Moore Gallery) ●

Gordon C. Morison

Ms. Diane Morris

Catherine Morrison Golden ●

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz

Mr. James P. Muldoon

Mr. Henry R. Muñoz III (Kell Muñoz 

Architects, Inc.) ● ✚

The Curtis & Edith Munson Foundation

Ms. Mary Kathryn Nagle ▲

Sarah E. Nash and 

Michael S. Sylvester ✚

National Association of Insurance 

Commissioners

National Financial Services LLC

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

National Philatelic Exhibitions of 

Washington, D.C., Inc. ▲

National Trust for Historic 

Preservation

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Natow

Navistar International Corporation

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Nelson 

Ms. Elizabeth R. Nesbitt

New Breed Corporate Services

The New York Community Trust

New York Life Insurance Company

New York State Bar Association

NewsChannel 8

The Honorable and 

Mrs. William A. Nitze

NJVC

Novo Nordisk A/S

Mr. Robert P. Odenweller

Amelia and Bayo Ogunlesi ●

Daniel and Rebecca Okrent ●

Oppenheimer & Company, Inc.

Oracle Corporation 

Mr. Gilman Ordway

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Bernard and Barbro Osher

Ambassador Mary and 

Mr. Mandell J. Ourisman ✚

Pala Casino Spa Resort

Walter C. Parkins

Dr. Paul D. and 

Mrs. Elmerina L. Parkman

Kelly and Ken Patton

H. O. Peet Foundation

Arthur and Linda Pelberg

Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Peled

Ms. Daphna Peled

The Penn Mutual Life Insurance 

Company

Rabbi Amy and Gary Perlin

Peters Family Art Foundation

Dr. Patti McGill Peterson and 

Dr. Kate S. Woodward

Philatelic Foundation

Ambassador Dave and Kay Phillips ✚

Piedmont Environmental Council

Mr. Mark C. Pigott, OBE

Dr. and Mrs. Michael Pillsbury, Ph.D. ●

The John L. Plueger Family

W. F. Podlich

Mrs. Vivian L. Pollock

Mr. Marc Polonsky

Bill and Joan Porter

Mr. and Mrs. William Potter

Stephen and Benita Potters ●

Ms. Marla Prather and 

Mr. Jonathan Schiller ●

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 

The Principal Financial Group

The Procter & Gamble Company

Prudential Financial

Puyallup Tribe

Rabobank Nederland, N.V.

Radio One, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Ragland, Jr. 

(Triangle Community 

Foundation) ✚ ●

The Smithsonian has created the world’s first frozen bank for coral sperm and embryonic cells, which one day 

may help reseed ocean corals. Here National Zoo scientist Mary Hagedorn examines a coral colony near Bunaken 

Island, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. 

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Donors to the Smithsonian

Recognizing our Benefactors

Mrs. Lois S. Raphling (Sylvia and 

Alexander Hassan Family 

Foundation)

Range Rover of North America ▲

Curtis Everdy Ransom

Mr. William P. Rayner

Ready-Weld Metal Fabricators, Inc.

Regen Projects

The Regenstein Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Burton J. Reiner

Ms. Elaine Reuben

Mrs. Lucy S. Rhame (The C.K. 

Williams Foundation)

Rice University

Mr. and Mrs. Blair E. Richardson ✚ ● ▲

Mr. and Mrs. Allan J. Riley (Allan and 

Reda R. Riley Foundation) ●

Ms. Toni Ritzenberg

Sara Roby Foundation

Mr. David Rockwell 

(Rockwell Architecture Planning 

& Design PC) ●

Mr. and Mrs. Johnathan A. Rodgers

Mark C. Rogers, M.D. (Rogers Family 

Charitable Foundation, Inc.) ●

Romantica Radio ▲

Mr. George Rose (The Rose Family 

Foundation)

Matt and Lisa Rose ●

Rosenthal Jaguar/Land Rover

Robert and Marion Rosenthal

Dr. Wayne Rosing (Tabasgo 

Foundation) ●

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Ross-Larson

Robert P. Rotella Foundation

Ms. Pat Rubin and 

Mr. Theodore J. Slavin

Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation

Owen F. Ruggles

Nancy and Clive Runnells ✚

Running Strong for American 

Indian Youth

The Rural School and 

Community Trust

Bill and Gaile Russ

Mr. Daniel J. Ryterband

S & R Technology Holdings LLC

Sana Sabbagh

Dame Theresa Sackler

Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber 

of Commerce

Sands Capital Management, LLC

SAP America, Inc.

Lloyd G. and Betty A. Schermer ✚

The Schlinger Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Schlosberg III ✚

Ms. Marnie Schreiber (Herb and Cece 

Schreiber Foundation)

Mr. Mark S. Schwartz

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott

Colonel and Mrs. Jerry Scott, USA (Ret.)

Ms. Helena Sechrist

Mr. and Mrs. Asif M. Shaikh ●

Shirley and Ralph Shapiro

The Shared Earth Foundation

Mr. Frederic A. Sharf (Jean S. & 

Frederic A. Sharf Fund)

Mrs. Norma Gudin Shaw

Shelter Hill Foundation

Shelton, Mindel & Associates

SHI International Corp.

Ms. Clara J. Shin ●

Shounji Buddhist Temple

Lewis and Barbara Shrensky

Mrs. Joan S. Siedenburg

David & Lyn Silfen Foundation ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Silversmith ▲

The Gertrude E. Skelly Charitable 

Foundation

Mr. Sinclair Skinner

Mr. James C. Small and Mr. John A. Fry

Snack Food Association

Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Snyder 

(Cambridge Information Group) ●

Society for Human Resource 

Management

South Carolina State Society

Southern Ute Tribe ▲

Fredda Sparks and Kent Montavon

Alan and Terri Spoon ■ ♦

Sprott Asset Management

St. Louis Zoological Park

Starbucks Coffee Company

State Chamber of Oklahoma

Philip Henry Stephens III

H. Peter Stern and 

Helen W. Drutt English ● ▲

Gary G. and Rebecca A.T. Stevens

Howard and Fredericka Stevenson ✚ ●

Mr. Daniel E. Stone

Holly and George Stone and Family

Mr. David L. Straight 

Edward and Diane Straker

Mr. Jerry Straus (Hobbs, Straus, 

Dean & Walker)

Ms. Mara Strock

Hattie M. Strong Foundation

The Sumitomo Foundation

SunAmerica

Mr. David M. Sundman and 

Mr. Donald J. Sundman

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

The Surdna Foundation

The Honorable Gabriel Suswan

Roselyne Chroman Swig

Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Tananbaum 

(The Lisa and Steven Tananbaum 

Family Foundation)

Patricia and Henry Tang ●

Taronga Conservation Society 

Australia

Tauck, Inc.

TEDMED, LLC

Telemundo ▲

Suzanne and Michael Tennenbaum ✚

Teradata

The Tewaaraton Award Foundation

Ms. Julia Thieriot (Cedar Hill 

Foundation)

Dr. and Mrs. F. Christian Thompson

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Ms. Mildred Thompson

Tisch Foundation, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Todd

Toshiba America, Inc. ▲

Toshiba International Foundation

Toyota

Troshan, Inc.

Trust for Mutual Understanding

Mr. Christopher Tsai (Tsai Capital 

Corporation)

Turner Foundation, Inc.

Ann and Marshall Turner ●

Jane Smith Turner Foundation

Sharon and Thurston Twigg-Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse J. Tyson

UBS

Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Udvar-Hazy

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Uhler ●

University of Oklahoma Foundation

University of Pennsylvania

Univision Communications, Inc.

URS Corporation

URS Federal Services

U.S. Bank 

U.S. Philatelic Classics Society

Venture Metal Works Incorporated

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Mr. and Mrs. Adalbert Von Gontard III ●

Vulnerability Research Labs

Mr. Kirk Wagar and 

Mrs. Crystal Connor

Mrs. Valaree Wahler

The Walt Disney Company

The Washington Post Company

Washingtonian Magazine ▲

Mr. and Mrs. H. Thomas Watkins

Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Watson, Jr. ●

Denis Weil

Mr. and Mrs. James Weinberg ●

DarEll T. Weist and Diane Kenney

Mr. William Weston (William Weston 

Gallery Ltd.)

White & Case, LLP 

White Oak Technologies, Inc.

Whitmore Group ▲

John and Barbara Wilkerson ✚

Ms. Leslie Wilkes

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Willard

Jane Willcox and Bobby Dyal, Jr.

The William & Mary Alumni 

Association

Ms. Annie M. Williams

Nettie and David Williams Charitable 

Endowment

Edgar Wilson Trust

Deborah Wince-Smith (Council on 

Competitiveness) ✚

WMAL Radio ▲

WTOP Radio 103.5 FM ▲

Yellowbook ▲

Dr. Soon-Young Yoon and Mr. Richard 

M. Smith (The Richard M. Smith 

Charitable Fund) ●

Mr. Neil Christian Young

Mr. Gianfranco Zaccai (Continuum)

John and Sherry Ziegler

$5,000 or more

Anonymous

@radical media, inc.

Accelerate Colorado

The Agouron Institute

Mr. Edward F. Ahnert

Aircraft Mainenance Technicians 

Association

Mr. James Alefantis

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Alexander

Claudia R. Allen and 

Willis M. Allen, Jr. ✚

Allied Integrated Marketing Corp.

Mrs. Zee Allred

Ambassador Programs, Inc.

American Gas Association

American Society of Clinical Oncology

Mr. Perry M. Amsellem 

(Pryor Cashman LLP) ●

Amtrak

Albert A'Neals

Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass

Arup

Ms. Julie Aselstine and 

Mr. Martin J. G. Glynn

Association of Corporate Counsel

Association of Legal Administrators

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Avant

Milton and Sally Avery Arts 

Foundation

Eleanor D. Balch

Bank of America

Mr. John Barba

Mr. Peter Barnett

Barston’s Child's Play Toys

Battelle

John and Dolores Beck (Beck Family 

Foundation)

Benjamin Moore & Co.

Craig and Susan Berrington

Max N. and Heidi L. Berry ✚ ●

Ms. Lorraine Wrightson Besch

Mr. Ira E. Bilson

Bioprocess Technology Network, Ltd

Robert S. and Dawn M. Birmingham

Jane M. Black Charitable Lead 

Annuity Trust

Mr. Jean-Charles Boisset (Boisset 

Family Estates)

Mr. David R. Boochever

Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Bowe

Ms. Patricia A. Bradley

Susan and Steven Bralove

Brewers Association (U.S.)

Dara and Dan Brewster ●

Ms. Nancy Goodman Brinker

Mr. and Mrs. Jere Broh-Kahn

Elizabeth Broun

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buchanan

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Buckfire

Ms. Deanne M. Burch

Mr. and Mrs. I. Townsend Burden III

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard W. Burka

Mr. J. William Busch

Joung Hun Byun

C2 Technologies, Inc.

Embassy of Canada

Mildred Square Carrethers

Jason Carter

Jacqui and Tom Castro ●

Mr. Vincent R. Castro (The CDM 

Group, Inc.)

Casualty Actuarial Society

Celestron International

Max Chapman

CHG Healthcare Services

Children's National Medical Center 

Foundation

Ms. Susanna Choy

The Clearing House

Jean Rainey Coffin

College of Charleston Foundation

Con Edison

Concourse Ventures Inc.

Christopher Cope and Jamie Shaw

Ruth Covo Family Foundation

Mr. Paul W. Critchlow

The Cuatrecasas Family Foundation

CUNA

Alyssa Curtis

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Curtis

The Davidson Institute for Talent 

Development

Catherine V. Dawson

The Dedalus Foundation

The Charles Delmar Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Denton ●

Mr. and Mrs. Roland A. DeSilva ●

Discovery Emerging Networks

Mr. Sil DiGenova

Distant Horizons

Steven Duckor

EEC Incorporated ▲

EEI Mobile

Mr. Steven A. Elmendorf ●

Mr. and Mrs. Richard England, Sr.

Environmental Leadership Center 

of Warren Wilson College

Envision EMI, LLC 

Episcopal High School

Mignon Erixon-Stanford

Exclusive Resorts Club 

Management, LLC

FBB Capital Partners

Mr. and Mrs. John Fahey ●

Hossein & Dalia Fateh Fund

Mrs. Carol S. Feinberg ●

Dr. Krista Few

Clinton and Elaine Fields

Mrs. Carol E. Fiertz

Financial Executives International

Marjorie M. Findlay and 

Geoffrey T. Freeman

Dr. Peggie A. Findlay

Ms. Martha J. Fleischman ●

Diane and Blaine Fogg ●

Lord and Lady Foster of Thames Bank

Mr. James Larry Frazier ●

Friends of the Dickerson Park Zoo

Fundacion Alberto Motta

Ms. Donna J. Gambrell

Sumner Gerard Foundation

John A. and Lile R. Gibbons

Mr. Douglas Gill

Henry H. Goldberg and 

Carol Brown Goldberg

Ms. Gaylynn Golden and 

Mr. James P. Basara

Dr. Margaret A. Goodman

Graduate School USA

Drs. Mark Graham and Laneta 

Dorflinger and their family

Grand Hyatt Washington

Ms. Renita Greener and 

Mr. Alan Bender

The Group of 50 Foundation, Inc.

Mr. Erwin M. Gudelsky

Agnes Gund

Nancy E. Gwinn and John Y. Cole

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Donors to the Smithsonian

Recognizing our Benefactors

The Robert and Mary Haft 

Foundation, Inc.

Marie M. Halff

Mrs. Gloria Shaw Hamilton

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harding

Ms. Karen Harvey

The Hecht-Levi Foundation

Hecktman Family Foundation

The Henry Foundation

The Henry J. Family Foundation

Mr. Francis J. Henry, Jr. (Booz Allen 

Hamilton)

Martha Hertelendy

Paul Hertelendy ✚

Frederick D. Hill (Collisart, llc)

Dr. Nina Horowitz and 

Dr. Richard Sussman

Howat Family Foundation (John and 

Anne Howat) ●

Nora Hsu and Barry C. Davis

Giselle and Benjamin Huberman

IDEO

Integrity Applications Incorporated

International Foundation for Education 

& Self-Help

Mr. Larry Irving

Ivory Press

Mrs. Shirley Jacobs

Suzanne Denbo Jaffe ●

Robert L. and Anne K. James ✚

Ms. Wendy Jeffers and 

Mr. Anthony Orphanos ●

The John F. Kennedy Center for the 

Performing Arts

Johns Hopkins University

Bob and Lynn Johnston (Educational 

Ventures Inc.) ●

Conway B. Jones, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Hal Jones

Mrs. Judith G. Jones (Steaven K. and 

Judith G. Jones Foundation) ●

Michael and Diane Jones

Dr. Walter F. Jones and 

Ms. Cheryl L. Rash Jones ●

J. Lisa Jorgenson and David Doniger

Lou Josephs and Susan Koonin

K2M, Inc.

Mr. Alan Robert Kabat

Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason 

Foundation

Mrs. Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan and 

Dr. Louis D. Kaplan ●

Kass and Berger Family Foundation

Patricia A. Kaufmann

Joseph and Paula Kerger ●

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kessler (Kessler 

Family Charitable Fund)

Mr. Thomas G. Klarner

John and Susan Klein

Mr. and Mrs. John Klingenstein

Mr. Harinder Kohli

Kraft Foods

Ms. Anne E. Kreamer and 

Mr. Kurt B. Andersen ●

Ada Kugajevsky

Mr. and Mrs. James J. Lally

Saundra B. Lane

Lazarus Charitable Trust

Dr. and Mrs. LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr. 

(Howard University Hospital)

Mr. Julian Lethbridge and 

Ms. Anne H. Bass

Mr. John M. Liebes

Mr. Joel Limerick

Tom Lindley ●

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon F. Linke

Dr. Michael L. Lomax ●

Laura Lomeli

Mr. and Mrs. William Lomicka ●

James Long

Louis Vuitton

Ms. Kayrene Lunday

Tondra and Jeffrey Lynford

Ms. Diana T. MacArthur

Mr. and Mrs. Creighton R. Magid

Mantech Engineering Systems 

Corporation

Mr. Christopher Mao

The Marstine Family Foundation

Erin Martin

The J. P. Martin Foundation

Mrs. Barbara Mathes (Barbara Mathes 

Gallery, Inc.) ●

Mr. James Owen Mathews

Mrs. Linda L. Mayer

Mazuri Exotic Animal Nutrition 

(Land O'Lakes Purina Feed, LLC)

Mr. and Mrs. James H.T. McConnell, Jr.

Mr. Stephen McDonough

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander 

K. McLanahan ✚

John P. McGovern Foundation

McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Merchandise Mart Properties

Metron Incorporated

The Michelson Family Foundation

Michigan State Society

Scott Miller and Tim Gill

Minnesota Zoo Foundation

Mondriaan Foundation

Colonel David P. and 

Clemmer Montague

The Montpelier Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moore

The Moriah Fund

Mr. Raymond Muzyka

Mr. Soohyun Myung

NACS - The Association for 

Convenience & Fuel Retailing

Susan and Ron Nash

National Electrical Contractors 

Association, Inc.

National Film Preservation Foundation

The Nature Conservancy

Nature's Best Publishing, LLC

Dr. Homer A. Neal ●

Needham & Company

The Netherland-America Foundation

Mrs. Carol Neuberger (Art and 

Travel LLC)

Ms. Lacey Neuhaus

Katherine Neville ●

Dr. Van-Thanh Nguyen

NXTevent, Inc.

The Oak Foundation USA

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Obering

Octagon, Inc.

Oklahoma City Zoological Park

Dr. Phillip H.K. Omohundro ● 

Oregon State University

Janice C. Oresman ●

Mr. and Ms. Patrick O'Rourke

Ms. Caroline Orosz

Mr. and Mrs. David M. Osnos

OXO

Ms. Bola Oyedijo

The David and Lucile Packard 

Foundation

PanelClaw

Mr. Paul L. Peck ✚

Peco Foundation

Denise Perritt

Pfizer Inc.

Ms. Ellen Phelan and 

Mr. Joel E. Shapiro ●

Mr. and Ms. Wilson Pipestem ●

Pixia Corp

Ms. Jayne H. Plank

Mr. William H. Plank

Poarch Creek Indians

Mrs. Lekha Poddar (Cromwell 

Associates Corporation)

Ms. Monica Ponce de Leon

The Honorable Colin Powell and 

Mrs. Powell ●

Press Ganey Associates, Inc.

Ms. Lori Price

Ms. Judy Lynn Prince 

Quince Imaging, Inc. ▲

R/GA

Mr. Robert Rea

Ms. Jane Richards

Miss Elizabeth Candida Ridout

Mary Livingston Ripley Charitable 

Lead Trust

Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth X. Robbins

The Nora Roberts Foundation

Mr. Charles J. Robertson

Ms. Jane Washburn Robinson

Leila and Lowell Robinson ●

Rona and Richard Roob ●

Room & Board, Inc.

Samuel G. Rose and Julie Walters ●

Mr. Nathan Owen Rosenberg

Mr. Robert Rosenkranz and 

Ms. Alexandra Munroe

Mr. Richard Rosman and 

Mrs. Fran Morris-Rosman

Tom and Bonnie Rosse (Rosse Family 

Charitable Foundation, Inc.)

Rotasa Foundation

Mr. Mark Rothman ●

Robert Rounsavall

The Rubin-Henry Family Foundation

The Honorable and Mrs. Frederick J. 

Ryan, Jr. ●

Mr. and Mrs. Wade E. Saadi

The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation

The Safer-Fearer Fund in The New 

York Community Trust ●

Mr. Daniel H. Sallick (Home Front 

Communications) ●

Salve Regina University

Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund

Dr. and Mrs. Gregory Schaaf

Herb and Cece Schreiber Foundation

Seamon Corporation

Shenandoah National Park Trust

George L. and Clara S. Shinn 

Foundation

SHPS

V. Heather Sibbison, SNR Denton

Mrs. Alexandra T. Singer

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Singer

The Sivak Family ●

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory A. Smith

Leon Polk Smith Foundation

Sprint Nextel Corporation

Margaret and Terry Stent

Mr. Clarence A. Stillions

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Mrs. William C. Storey

Mr. Daniel Streng (Streng Design)

Strypemonde Foundation

Ms. Cathy Sulzberger and 

Joseph G. Perpich, M.D. ●

Sutherland

Dr. Yui Suzuki and Mr. Akio Tagawa

David and Lorraine Swerdloff

Swiss Re America Corporation

Mr. H. Patrick Swygert ●

Ambassador Nicholas F. Taubman and 

Mrs. Eugenia Taubman ●

Ruth and Vernon Taylor 

Foundation, MT ✚ 

TECRO

Tetrad Digital Integrity (TDI)

William E. Thomas, Jr.

Mr. Richard E. Thompson

Annie and Sami Totah

Transamerica Life Insurance Co.

Triad Advisors, Inc.

The Trull Foundation

TDI Corporation

Unique Events, Inc.

United Technologies Corporation

The University Club

Ms. Peri N. Urvek and Ms. Peg Urvek

Ms. Emily B. van Agtmael and 

Mr. Antoine van Agtmeal

Mr. Jan van der Lande (Kikkerland 

Design, Inc.)

Wouter K. Vanderwal

Verisign

Verizon Wireless

Virginia Chapter, The American 

Chestnut Foundation

Wabash College

Mrs. James Wallach (Mary and James 

G. Wallach Foundation)

Dr. Winfred O'Neil Ward ●

Washington Art Library Resources 

Committee

Washington Parent ▲

The Honorable and Mrs. Frank Weil 

(Hickrill Foundation) ✚

Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic 

Foundation

Adam J. Weissman Foundation

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Ms. Leslie A. Wheelock ●

Paula McCaskill Whitehouse and 

Michael Whitehouse

Ms. Charlotte Williams

Williams World Travel, LTD.

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. ▲

Willis North America, Inc.

Mr. Eli Wilner (Eli Wilner & 

Company, Inc.) ●

Kevin and Diane Wilshere

Ms. Jeanne Wilson

The Wireless Foundation

The Wolf Group, PC

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Wolkowitz

Mr. and Mrs. S. Roy Woodall, Jr.

Dr. Suzanne H. Woolsey and 

The Hon. R. James Woolsey ●

World Cocoa Foundation

World Vision

Wrinkle in Time Foundation

Mr. Fred Young

Mr. Greg Zeschuk

$2,000 or more

Anonymous

Mr. John Adams

Mr. and Mrs. Syed P. Ahmed

The Alaska Community Foundation

Mr. John Albanese

Mr. Terry L. Albertson and 

Ms. Kathleen A. Blackburn

Ms. Alexis Albion

Mr. Jaime E. Aleman

All Stage & Sound, Inc. ▲

Ms. Susan Marie Allen

American Airlines

American Entomological Society, Inc.

Mrs. Asha Anand

William S. and Janice R. Anderson 

Foundation of the Dayton 

Foundation ✚

Mr. Ralph Appelbaum (Ralph 

Appelbaum Associates, Inc.)

Mr. Orville M. Armstrong 

Atmosphere, Inc. ▲

Jeanne Azen

Phillip and Ruth Backup

Mrs. William Benjamin Bacon

Ms. Jamie Lee Baldinger

Marcie L. Bane and 

Michael X. Imbroscio

Elaine Dee Barker Revocable Trust 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Bartlett, Jr.

Dr. Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and 

Mr. Adam Bartos

Mr. Everett Bayliss

Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Beck, Jr.

Dr. Tyson and Ms. Katie Sutcliffe Becker

Mr. and Mrs. David Beddow

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Beech

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Beers

The Honorable Anthony C. Beilenson 

and Mrs. Beilenson ●

John and Marinka Bennett

Bering Straits Native Corp.

Ruth B. Berman

Mr. Robin Berrington

Mr. Olaf Bexhoeft and 

Ms. Jan McLin Clayberg

Martin and Mathilde Bienstock

Mr. and Mrs. Ross Bierkan

Marilyn F. Black

Ms. Barbara Bluestone and 

Mr. Alan J. Heller

Ms. Carol A. Bommarito

The Bonwood Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. John Boochever ●

Julia Childs’ kitchen, National Museum of American History. The museum marked what would have been the late 

French chef’s 100th birthday on August 15, 2012.

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Donors to the Smithsonian

Recognizing our Benefactors

Mr. Stephen S. Bowen

Mr. Robert J. Boyd III (Vapores Boyd, S.A.)

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Bradley ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Braitman

Frances D. Bratton

The Honorable Stephen F. Brauer and 

Mrs. Brauer (Stephen F. & Camilla 

T. Brauer Charitable Trust) ✚

Ms. Carolyn L. Brehm and Amb. 

Richard Boucher

Ms. Colleen D. Brindle

Marcia and Kenneth Brookler

Honorable John Landrum Bryant and 

Patricia Bauman

Melva Bucksbaum and 

Raymond Learsy ●

Uschi and Bill Butler

Mr. Warren F. Buxton, Ph.D., CDP

Margarita Calderón

California Community Foundation

Mary L. Carlsen

Mr. Tim Carroll

Capt. Eugene A. Cernan

Ms. Sheryll D. Cashin and 

Mr. Marque Chambliss ●

Mrs. C. Stanley Chapman, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Cherry

Chesapeake Operating, Inc.

Chesapeake Region Lace Guild

Ms. Cecilia H. Chin

Mrs. Brice M. Clagett

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Clark

Leslie Cockburn

Mr. David S. Cohen

Mr. Richard Cohen

George and Nina Cois

Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole and 

Mr. James Staton

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Collins ✚

Mr. Joseph A. Columbus

ConocoPhillips

Continua Gallery

Mr. Richard P. Cooley ✚

Dr. Ronald M. Costell and 

Ms. Marsha E. Swiss

Melissa Courtney

Dr. and Mrs. Maurice Coyle Crossbeam

Crystal Family Foundation

Karen L. Daigle, MD

General and Mrs. J. R. Dailey

Dr. and Mrs. Worth B. Daniels, Jr.

Mr. John Dannreuther

Mrs. Joan Danziger

Mr. David L. Davies and 

Mr. John D. Weeden

Bret Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Hal Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Arnaud de Borchgrave

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Dellheim

Mr. Niels Diffrient and 

Ms. Helena Hernmarck

Mr. Aaron Dignan (Undercurrent)

Mr. James C. Dinegar ●

Richard Ditton

Mr. Arrington Dixon (Arrington Dixon 

and Associates, Inc.) ●

Ms. Deborah Dodrill

Mary F. Dominiak

Ms. Barbara Donatelli

Ms. Kathleen M. Doyle 

(Doyle New York)

Ms. Mary N. Dryden

DuPont Center for Collaborative 

Research and Education

Mr. Jim Dyer ●

Colonel and Mrs. Eberly

Ms. Isobel Ellis

European Space Agency (ESA)

Mrs. John Dwight Evans

Ms. Andrea K. Evers ▲

Mr. Sidney Felsen and Ms. Joni 

Moisant Weyl (Gemini G.E.L.)

Dr. Linda S. Ferber ●

Fibre Space 

Mr. Chuck Fillah

Mrs. Shirley M. Fisher

Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Fiske

Mr. Anthony Flint

Mrs. Nancy M. Folger and 

Dr. Sydney Werkman

Mr. Alfredo Fonseca 

(Hormigon Express)

Ms. Debra J. Force (Debra Force 

Fine Art, Inc.)

Fowler Hoffman, LLC

Jacqueline Fowler

Mr. Brian Michael Foy

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Frankel (Maxine 

and Stuart Frankel Foundation)

Ms. Helen Frankenthaler (Helen 

Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc.)

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Linda and Jay W. Freedman

Mrs. Christine M. Freidel and 

Mr. Douglas Varley

Dale Friend

Richard Gaddes

Martha and Paul Gaffney

Dr. Cheryl R. Ganz ▲

Ms. Mary Ann Gardner

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Garfield

Gem, Lapidary & Mineral Society of 

Montgomery County, MD

Genessee & Wyoming Inc.

Ms. Linda George

Mrs. Gladys Navarro Gerbaud

Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Gewirz

Jere Gibber and J.G. Harrington

Angela and Craig Gildner

Ms. Jeanne Giordano and 

Mr. Robert Frasca

Goldman Sachs Community 

Teamworks

Mr. and Mrs. C. Michael Gooden

Ms. Julie Gordon

The Gottfried Family

Agnes M. Grady

Colonel and Mrs. Richard H. Graham, 

USAF, Ret.

Gran Propiedad del Futuro, S.A.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Greenbaum

Mr. Keith J. Greene

Greenville Zoo

Mr. Edward L. Greer

Mrs. Jane Guiliano

Raymond Gundlach, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Guthrie

Elizabeth W. Gwinn

Josephine Haden and Charles Ludolph

Ms. Joyce Hamel

Mr. and Mrs. M. Hill Hammock

You can navigate the National Zoo and 17 Smithsonian museums with an app developed in partnership with Google. 

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Mr. Collier Hands

Hard Rock Café

Hargrove, Inc.

Mr. Christie G. Harris

Mr. and Mrs. Marion Edwyn Harrison ✚

Felicie and Paul Hartloff

Harvard University

Rosan Hawkins

Roberta Lynn Hay

Ralph Heath ●

Mr. Pedro Heilbron ●

The Heiligenberg Foundation

Ms. Bertie M. Heiner

Ms. Karen Heithoff

Heming Travel Group

Mr. and Mrs. Miguel Heras

Catherine and Richard W. Herbst ✚

Mrs. Gloria Hidalgo

The Historical Miniatures Gaming 

Society, Inc.

Mr. Phil Hobbes

Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Hoch, Jr.

Mr. Richard Holbrook

Mr. Steven Holl

Ms. JunAnn Holmes

Ms. Jenny Holzer

Horizon Investments, Inc.

Ms. Nettie A. Horne and 

Ms. Susan Haynes

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Horning, Jr.

Virginia Hough

Mr. Lewis Howie

Ms. Fiona Hughes

Hunter Family Foundation

David and Johanna Hurley

Mr. Kent Hustad

Mark and Carol Hyman

Hynes, Himmelreich, Glennon & 

Company, LLC

ICF International, Inc.

Osagie and Losenge Imasogie

Mr. Richard S. Ingham

InterTribal Buffalo Council ▲

Sebastian and Mieko Izzard

Mr. William K. Jenkins, Sr.

Mr. Philip C. Jessup, Jr. and 

Dr. Helen I. Jessup

Jewell Foundation Limited

Ms. Barbara Johnson

Mr. Robert N. Johnson

Thomas and Elizabeth Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Tarun and Simi Juneja

Dr. Mark Kaiser

Ms. Collen Kalinoski

Ms. Diane Kaplan

Jacqueline Karel

Phil Kaufman

Ms. Margaret H. Kavalaris

Ms. Sharon Kavanagh

Dr. and Mrs. Ashok Kaveeshwar

Dona S. Kendall ✚

Mr. Jonathan K. Kern

Ms. Mary Bridget Kluwin

Mr. Frederick R. Koch

Dr. David and Roma Korris

Michelle and John Korsmo

Ms. Robyn S. Kravit

Dr. Stephen and Myra Kurzbard

Mr. and Mrs. Vello Kuuskraa 

(Advanced Resources International)

Mrs. Alix M. Laager

Ms. Elizabeth K. Labadie

Mr. Jerry H. Labowitz

Mr. and Mrs. Cameron La Clair

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Lader ●

Ms. Ann B. Lane and 

Mr. Rudolf H.J. Bergmans

Mrs. Climis G. Lascaris

Mr. Stephen S. Lash

Vivienne M. Lassman

Mr. Albert G. Lauber, Jr. and 

Mr. Craig W. Hoffman

Lavender's VA

Ms. Marta J. Lawrence

Ms. Mallory Lawson

Joan Pirie Leclerc

Barbara Lee Family Foundation

Dr. Lisa Lee

Mr. and Mrs. Rensselaer W. Lee III

Mr. and Mrs. James Lehrer

Jill Lepore, Ph.D. ●

Les Amis Belges De L'Universite 

Hebraique

Mr. Richard H. Levi and 

Ms. Susan Perry

Mr. Curtis Lewis

Ms. Dorothy Lichtenstein

Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lieberthal

Vanessa Lindquist-Barrie

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Linton

Mr. Michael Littleford

Mr. Donald R. Livingston

Mr. and Mrs. Jan Lodal ●

Dr. David E. Longnecker ●

Mr. Kyle B. Lukins ●

The Lynden Family of Companies

Mr. Thomas G. MacCracken

Mr. J. Bruce Mackey

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Macklowe

Mr. John T. Maeda ●

Sanjiv Mahan

Main Event Caterers ▲

Ms. Sheila Maloney

Nancy and John Mannes

Gail Maracle

Dr. and Mrs. E. Gregory Marchand

Norma B. Marin

Virginia Cretella Mars

Mr. and Mrs. David B.H. Martin, Jr.

Nicholas and Lovella Martin Fund, 

Community Foundation of 

North Texas

Ms. Maryam Massoudi

James and Marsha Mateyka

Michael and Hannah Mazer

Peter O. Mazur

David and Janet McCabe

Mr. William P. McClure

Hilda McDaniel

Ms. C. Gardner McFall and 

Mr. Peter F. Olberg

Mr. Douglas M. McKean

Mr. John J. Medveckis

Laurel and Robert Mendelsohn

The Merck Company Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Mich

Jo and Peter Michalski

Michigan State University

Louise Middlemiss

Mr. Sidney Migdon

Arnold Miller

Lawrence and Iris Miller

Sandee Minovi

Mr. Lee S. Minshull

Mr. Thomas Miree

Zareen Taj Mirza

Dr. and Mrs. Norman A. Mitchell

Mobile Giving Foundation

Ms. Mary V. Mochary

Molino Consulting, S.A.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Morgan ✚

Ms. Toshiko Mori (Toshiko Mori 

Architect)

Mr. and Mrs. Rajesh and Radhika Murari

Ms. Maxine L. Myers

Mr. Marvin J. Nakashima

Mrs. Frances Nation

National Audubon Society

National Indian Gaming Association

National Japanese American 

Memorial Foundation

Native Orchid Conference Inc.

NETSAP - DC Foundation, Inc.

Neugerriemschneider

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Newbill

Mr. Audrey Newton

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Nolen

Ms. Caroline Hooff Norman

Dr. Jules Oaklander

Mr. Martin E. O'Brien ●

Sandra Day O'Connor ✚ ●

OCR Services, Inc.

Mr. William E. Ogburn

Ms. Susan Ollila

John O'Meara

Dr. Peter Orenski

The Orentreich Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Orndorff

Mr. John B. Osborn

Mr. Stephen Oxley

Ozarks Chapter of the American 

Association of Zoo Keepers

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Page IV

Mr. George Palermo

Pan Am-National Retiree's Association 

N.C.F. Inc.

Mr. Jack S. Parker ✚

Mr. James D. Parker

Dr. Tushar Patel

Colonel Paul G. Patton, USAF (Ret.)

Jerome and Gwen Paulson

Mr. C. Jason Payne ●

Laura Peebles and Ellen Fingerman

Mr. and Mrs. Terry R. Peel

Peer Insight LLC

Pelligrini Solutions, Inc.

Pentagram Design, Inc.

Ms. Susan B. Perry

Dr. and Mrs. J. Peter Pham

Barry and Beverly Pierce

Mr. Charles M. Pigott ✚

Sally and George Pillsbury

Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Pitts, Jr.

Porter Scientific, Inc.

Mr. Paul R. Portney (The Johnson 

Foundation, Inc.)

Nancy Upp Potter

Mrs. Peter G. Powers

Mr. Gautam Prakash

Ms. Joyce E. Pratt and 

Mr. Jeffrey K. Harris

Karl H. Pribram, M.D.

Mr. James D. Price (Fieldland 

Investment Company)

Mr. Richard James Price

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Priest

Mr. Timothy Proctor

Mr. and Mrs. David R. Pruner

The Thomas L. and Eileen K.S. 

Pulling Fund

■ smithsonian regent ♦ smithsonian regents’ advancement committee member ✚ smithsonian national board member or alumnus

● smithsonian advisory board member ▲ in-kind gift (full or partial) symbol key

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Donors to the Smithsonian

Recognizing our Benefactors

Pureun USA Tours and Travel Inc.

David and Cheryl Purvis ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Quirk

Raison Pure International, Inc.

Emily and Mitchell Rales

Rahul P. Ranadive and Sujat R. Tipnis

Ms. Abbe Raven and 

Mr. Martin Tackel ●

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems

Mr. and Mrs. John Daniel Reaves

Mr. Christopher Reed 

(Stoss Landscape Urbanism)

Mr. and Mrs. David P. Rehfuss

Allan and Lynne Reich

Helen M. Reinsch

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Riboni

R. Lucia Riddle ●

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Robinson

Mr. Peter L. Robinson, Jr.

Robert Roche and Nancy Hirschbein

Sharon and John D. Rockefeller IV ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Francis C. Rooney, Jr. ✚

Frances & David Rose Foundation

Trude S. Roselle

Ms. Tia Rosengarten

Arthur Ross Foundation

John Rossi

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew V. Roswell

Ms. Roberta Ong Roumel

Ms. Sue Ruff

Ms. Dorothy D. Russell

Dr. Jeremy A. Sabloff ●

Dr. Oladayo Sanusi

Mr. Michael R. Savage

Dr. Robert E. Savage

Schnitzer Steel Indust. Inc.

Ms. Pam Scott and 

Mr. Timothy Koogle ●

Mr. William Schwert

Security Moving and 

Storage Company

Ms. Dolores A. Sena

Mr. Isao Setsu and Mrs. Takako Setsu 

(Setsu Gatodo Co., Ltd.)

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Murray Seymour, Jr.

Mr. Leonard Shaefer and 

Ms. Nan Dawkins

Mr. Jerrell W. Shelton ●

Ms. Virginia Shore and 

Mr. Thomas Hardart

Mr. David Sickey

Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP

Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Siegel

Silver Bullet Productions

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Sitzler

Dr. Mary Slusser

Albert and Shirley Small

Mark W. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smoyer

The Society of Government Meeting 

Professionals

Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sockwell

Mr. Walter R. Somerville, Jr.

Southcentral Foundation

Special Olympics

Mrs. Jennifer P. Speers

Mrs. Anne Felton Spencer

Mr. and Mrs. Edson W. Spencer ✚

Ms. Doris Sperber 

Mr. and Mrs. Victor G. Springer

Sanya Springfield

Mr. Burton B. Staniar 

(The Burton Foundation)

R. Julian and Margaret A. Stanley 

Charitable Trust

Ms. Debra Stevens

Ms. Stephanie Stokes

Straetz Foundation

Major Willard H. Strandberg, Jr. and 

Mrs. Ann Strandberg

Alan & Katherine Stroock Fund

Mr. Barry Stuppler

Fred and Laurel Stutzer

Mr. Timothy J. Sullivan ●

Sunoco, Inc.

Susan Gage Caterers ▲

Taconic Builders Inc.

Mr. Maynard Tapp

May Day Taylor

Frederick and Barbara Clark Telling

Mr. Robert J. Terkanian

Mrs. Fern Tessler

Donna J. Thal, Ph.D. and 

Mr. George Carnevale

Laura Tillery

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Peter and Lynn Tishman (Peter and 

Lynn Tishman Fund, Inc.)

Ms. Mirium J. Todd

Toh Michaels Private Wealth 

Management LLC

Mr. Jim Torgerson and 

Ms. Morgan Christen

Ms. Laurel Touby

Ms. Billie Tsien and Mr. Tod Williams

Tudor Farms, Inc.

United Jewish Endowment Fund

United States Stamp Society

University of Pennsylvania School 

of Design and Dean Marilyn 

Jordan Taylor

Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Varblow

Mrs. Helen B. Vogel

Wendy S. and John T. Wall ✚

Cheryl and Charles Ward

Glenn W. Ward

Washington Gas Light Company

Mrs. Ruth L. Webb

Mr. Andrew Weidert, Jr.

Marie-Hélène Weill

Mr. Fred Weinberg

Ms. Judith S. Weisman and 

Mr. John H. Vogel

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Weiss

Mrs. Franc Wertheimer

Dr. Terry L. and Faye A. Whitworth

Mr. Daniel Wiley

Robert Willasch

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher G. Willett

Williams & Connolly

Susan R. Wirths

Ms. Judy C. Woodruff and 

Mr. Albert R. Hunt

World Publications, Inc.

WSP Flack + Kurtz

Mr. and Mrs. David Y. Yao

Ms. Patricia A. Young

Young Presidents' Organization 

Mr. Mansun Yu

Zegar Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Zelenka

Margot and Paul Zimmerman

smithsonian 

corporate members

Corporate memberships forge dynamic 

ties with businesses nationwide 

and provide important unrestricted 

support to Smithsonian education, 

research, and exhibition initiatives.

3M

Altria Group, Inc.

American Express

Arnold & Porter LLP

Battelle

Bloomberg

Booz Allen Hamilton

BP America

Casey Family Programs

CH2M Hill

Chevron 

Clark Construction Group, LLC

CNA

The Coca-Cola Company

Converse Inc.

Deutsche Bank

The Economist Group

Express Scripts, Inc.

ExxonMobil

Federal Home Loan Banks

Financial Executives International

The Financial Services Roundtable

Ford Motor Company Fund

The Future Project

Gaylord Entertainment Foundation

General Electric Company

Honeywell

IBM Corporation

Ironshore

Johnson & Johnson

Kansas City Southern 

The King's College

Knoll, Inc.

KPMG LLP

Life Technologies Corporation

Maharam

Mars, Incorporated

Consulate General of Monaco

Moody’s

Morgan Stanley

Motorola Solutions

Napean, LLC

NECO Foundation, Inc.

New York Law School

Nissan North America, Inc.

PEPCO

Pfizer Inc.

Pratt Institute

Roundtable Investment Partners LP

S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.

School of Visual Arts

Siemens Corporation

Sony Corporation of America

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc.

Southern Company

Target

Texas Instruments

Time Warner Inc.

USM Modular Furniture

Vans, Inc.

Verizon Communications, Inc.

The Walt Disney Company

World Hunger Year, Inc.

Xerox Corporation

Ziff Brothers Investments

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bequests

We remember with appreciation 

the following generous donors whose 

gifts through bequests from their 

estates were received this year.

Anonymous

Walter E. Adams, Jr.

Charles F. W. Anderson

Jane W. Barager

James Bond

George W. Brett

Amy Brumgard

Gordon G. Carter

Barbara J. Coffey

Marion E. Crawford

Nazeli Davidian

Dorothy L. Downing

Roger and Dorothy Ducharme

Joseph Manfred Ennis

Lucile J. Fox

Frank Gettings

Betty Gilbert

Herbert H. Hamilton

Rita N. Hansen

Richard Hartman

Marjorie C. Hayes

JoGayle Howard

Violet K. Ihlenfeld

Thelma M. Kenison 

Blanche M. Koffler

Julia Kunes

Leslie Leonelli

Irwin A. Levy

Barbara Mary Macknick

Allen McReynolds, Jr.

Helene V. O'Neal

Nam Jun Paik

David E. Parker

John Parker

Franklin K. Ribelin

Malcolm S. and Evelyn Rountree

Marguerite V. Schneeberger

John O. J. Shellenberger III

Fred L. and Ruth B. Steele

Dennis Stein Trust

Byron C. Stickler

Mary F. Stowe

Joyce A. Thurston

Barbara V. Tufts

Walter G. Vogel

Cecel F. White

Hollin J. Whitten

Charles and Margret Withers

Francis W. and Carol J. Worrell

memorial and 

commemorative gifts

The following were honored by their 

families, friends, and other donors to 

the Smithsonian.

William H. Bohnett

Richard A. and Joanne Deer Brodie

Melva Bucksbaum and 

Raymond Learsy

Anne Chenault

Sally G. Chubb

Johnnetta B. Cole

Catherine G. Curran

Valerie and Charles Diker

Barbara G. Fleischman

Armin Frei

Sumner Gerard

JoGayle Howard

B. J. Killian

Nancy Kilpatrick

Fred Korematsu

Jo Carole Lauder

Mariana S. Leighton

Tere Linehan

Humayon and Dodie Mirza 

Bill Moggridge

Enid W. Morse

William A. and Ann K. Richards Nitze

Donald J. Ortner

Jim Petersen

Leonard S. Polonsky

William F. Readdy

Wendy Wick Reaves

Mary E. Rice

Cristián Samper

Henry Strong

James T. Ulak

Frank Ward

Norman C. and Catherine M. Willcox

Louise Ann Williams

The Smithsonian celebrated 100 years of the Girl Scouts with exhibits, programs, and activities. Here troop members view Frederick Douglass at the 

National Portrait Gallery.

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the smithsonian 

legacy society

The Society honors those who carry 

on James Smithson’s tradition by 

making legacy gifts, such as bequests, 

charitable gift annuities, charitable 

remainder trusts, pooled income 

fund gifts, gifts of retirement plans, 

or donations through other giving 

vehicles.

Anonymous

Lucian Abernathy

Mr. Michael C. Adams, Jr.

Dr. Seena Aisner

Ralph Albers

Mrs. Roberta M. Alden

Ms. Doris Alexander

Stephen T. Alexieff

Claudia R. Allen and Willis M. Allen, Jr.

Ms. Ruth Alliger

Ms. Aurora R. Almendral

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Alward

Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya

Mr. Richard C. Andersen

William S. and Janice R. Anderson

Ms. Rae R. Anderson-Marsh

Thelma L. Antal

Dr. and Mrs. C. Araoz

Ms. Beryl E. Arbit

Mark B. Ardis

Mr. Orville M. Armstrong

Dr. and Mrs. Paul H. Arnaud, Jr.

Mary Arnold

Rudolph E. and Frances B. Atmus

Mr. Robert J. Atwater

Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Avery

Rose Marie Baab

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Baecht

Dr. Sheryl Bair

William and Nellie Baker

Lorraine Idriss Ball

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ballinger

Mr. Roger Barnes

Mr. Dale S. Barnett, Jr.

Captain Celia Barteau

LeRoy T. Baseman

Betty Passmore Bass

Mrs. Florence Baston

Susan and Thomas Baxter

Mr. Gary F. Beanblossom

Mr. Walter Beasley

Ms. Gisela Beker

Leslie Ellen Beller

Mr. William C. Benner

Ms. Joan Benson

Mr. and Mrs. Jason R. Beresford

Mrs. Susanna Berger

Mr. Richard P. Bland

Mrs. Carolyn Boday

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Boggs

George and Bonnie Bogumill

Margaret W. and William J.D. Bond

Ms. Kathryn Boomsma

Mark and Eileen Boone

Colonel Charles Botula III, USAF (Ret.) 

and Mrs. Susan K. Botula

Mark C. Bowers

Ms. Jean Brackman

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Bradley

Ms. Annelise Brand

Mr. J. B. Brandt

Mrs. Linda Ann Brass-Terry II

Mr. James Brendel

Col. and Mrs. Arthur L. Brooke

Randall Brooks

Ms. Virginia Lou Brooks

Mrs. Agnes M. Brown

Harris and Diane Bruch

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Bruns

Rogene A. Buchholz

Mr. and Mrs. J. Kevin Buchi

Ms. Elinor Anne Budelier

Robert F. Bulens

Ms. Shirley L. Bunton

Edward A. Burka

Mr. Warren F. Buxton, Ph.D., CDP

Café Nicholson Fund

Ms. Margaret Capuder, RN

Mrs. Ruth Ogden Carroll

Ms. Joyce L. Carter

Michael W. Cassidy

Mr. James K. Cavanaugh

Kathleen A. and William J. Cavanaugh

Mrs. Fenner A. Chace, Jr.

Mr. Eric Chandler

Patricia and Samuel Charache

Ms. Mary Claire Christensen

Ms. Linda C. Clark

Ms. Tanya Marie Clark

Mr. Thomas L. Clark

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Claussen

Earl F. Clayton

Robert and Betsey Clopine

Ann and John Collins

Mr. Douglas Comerdinger

Mrs. Mary Gendernalik Cooper

Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Cotton

Mr. Curtis E. Croom

Ms. Carol Ann Crotty

Phillip and Betty Crum

Linda B. Cullen

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Culley

Mr. Hal J. Cunningham

Mr. James Curry

Mr. Ravenel Boykin Curry, Jr.

Miss Pauline R. Cushing

Ms. Candi Cutrell

Mrs. Phyllis Daderio

General and Mrs. J.R. Dailey

Mr. Carmen J. D'Angelo

Ms. Patricia Daniels

Doris M. Darmopray

Mrs. Lucile Daubner

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Davis

James and Dorothy Davis

Mrs. Aila G. Dawe

Mr. Walter Deans

Mr. and Mrs. Arnaud de Borchgrave

Mrs. Concetta Lucia DeGele

Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Deichmiller

Mr. Alan R. Dellinger

Ms. Sue A. Delorme

Ms. Patrice Kathleen Denman

Ms. Elaine A. Dependahl

Baroness Yvonne de Vilar

Paul and Becky Dhyse

Kenneth G. and Sherry L. Dietz

Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Dix, Jr.

Dennis O. Dixon

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Dixon

Ralph and Patricia Dixon

Alycia and Bruce Doctor

Alan and Elizabeth Duckett

Dr. Harold A. Dundee

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Dutton

Robert L. Dwight

Ms. Eleanor O. Earle

Ms. Nancy L. Eaton

Mr. Gabriel H. Ebersole

Frances A. Edmonds (Mohr) and 

Michael D. Mohr

Dr. Kay Edwards

Mrs. Ruth F. Effron

Mr. George W. Elliott

Valerie A. Emerson

Mrs. Joan Engberg

Ronald W. and Sophie M. Enger

Ken Ferrara

Miss Grace C. Ferrill

Mr. and Mrs. Dale E. Fincke

Mrs. Helen Flanagan

Mr. Fred R. Fonck

Ms. Norma L. Forbes

Mr. Ronald J. Foulis

Mrs. Marilyn C. Frantsov

Howard and Shirlee Friedenberg

Albert and Marion Friedlander

Ms. Patricia K. Frontz

Gudrun Fruehling

Dr. Martin A. Funk and 

Mr. Eugene S. Zimmer

Ms. Ann Reed Gaines

Mrs. H. Clay Gardenhire

Mr. David E. Garrett

Ms. Lois Gartlir

Ms. Suzanne M. Gartz

Jane W. Gaston

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Gazzola

Dr. Albert Gelderman and 

Dr. Martha Gelderman

Doris and Henry R. George

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas B. Gilbert

Mr. and Mrs. William Gjodesen

Mr. Gilbert W. Glass

Mr. Charles Goldsberry

Ms. Margaret K. Goldsmith

Mrs. Ruth H. Gooding

Dr. Margaret A. Goodman

Mrs. Renee Goodstein

Kenneth P. Gorelick, MD and 

Mrs. Cheryl Opacinch Fund

Gerald and Sheila Gould

Peter and Rhondda Grant

Ms. Margaret J. Grasston

Mrs. Taylor P. Grasty

Mrs. Aline K. Grayson

Mr. James A. Greco

Ralph Greenhouse

Joanne T. Greenspun

Mrs. Ruth Gresham

Alice L. Grindstaff

Marilyn Grossman

Mr. Donald J. Guiles

Lt. Col. and Mrs. Milton R. Gunther, 

USAF (Ret.)

Mr. Robert S. Guthrie

Nancy E. Gwinn and John Y. Cole

Valerie J. and D. Wilson Gyton

Mrs. Eileen Hamilton

Mrs. Gloria Shaw Hamilton

Ms. Josephine B. Hammond

The Tom and Char Hand Foundation

Mr. Ralph Hansen

Mrs. Nancy M. Harlan

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harmon

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Harmon

Mr. Christie G. Harris

Donors to the Smithsonian

Recognizing our Benefactors

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Ms. Margery F. Harris

Ms. Carrie R. Harrison

Ms. D. L. Hasse

Roger D. Hathaway

Mr. William C. Hauber

Ms. Judy Hauser

Patricia and Michael Hausknost

Ms. Jennifer E. Hawley

Mr. Geoffrey F. Hayes

Ms. Helen Heidgerd

Wilbert A. Heinz

Mr. Richard D. Henderson

Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Herold

Ms. Gail Hershenzon

Martha Hertelendy 

Paul Hertelendy

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Herzog

Dr. and Mrs. David C. Hess

Mr. Jeff Hill

Edward J. and Ruth W. Hodge

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart 

Hodgekinson-Price

Miss K. T. Hoffacker

Ruth S. Holmberg

Robert W. Holmes

Ms. Hanna Lore Hombordy

Dorothy Post Hoover

Ms. Edna M. Hoover

Mary Hopkins

Ray and Valerie Hopkins

William L. Hopkins and 

Richard B. Anderson

Ms. Patricia B. Horlacher

Catherine Marjorie Horne

Mrs. Roberta C. Hossbacher

Ms. Brenda Howard

Howat Family Foundation 

(John and Anne Howat)

Mrs. Edgar McPherson Howell

John Hoyda

Nora Hsu and Barry C. Davis

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Hugel

Captain Woodie W. Humburg

Dr. and Mrs. James C. Hunt

Mr. and Mrs. Milton M. Hyatt

Dr. Richard Ingraham

Keith Jackson

Karel & Virginia Jacobs Living Trust

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Jenkins

Dennis R. Jenkins

Lieutenant Colonel Robert B. Jenkins, 

USAF, Retired

Donald R. and Judy Jensen

David S. and Pat Jernigan

Dr. Karen Jespersen

Mr. Douglas B. Johnson

Ms. Janice M. Johnson

Mr. Woodrow C. Johnson

Mr. Denis F. Johnston

Ms. Heather Jones

Mr. Leonard H. Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Jue

Mr. Nelson Kading

Stephen and Linda Kamen

Ms. Judy Kaselow

Steven Kazan and 

Judy Heymann Kazan

Miss Rajinder K. Keith

Mrs. W. J. Kelnhofer

Robert F. and Nancy L. Kempf

Mr. John B. Kendrick

Ms. Kelly A. Kendrick-Bailey

Ms. Marjorie C. Kennedy

Jack L. Keyes

Peter B. Kibbee

Mary Jane Kilhefner

Mrs. Timothy King

Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Kirvan

Drs. Susan and Perry Klein

Mr. and Mrs. Townsend Knight

Mr. C. Wilson Kniseley

Mary Ann Knyff

John and Mary Lu Koenig

Richard and Marilyn Kolesar

Ms. Nancy Konkol

Lt. Col. William K. and 

Mrs. Alice S. Konze

Ms. Amy Kotkin

Ms. Cynthia Kowert

Mrs. Linda J. Kownacki

Ms. Ellen Kreighbaum

Richard I. Kuehl

Dr. Richard Kurin

Margo Kurtz

Ms. Lee L. Kush

Dr. Geraldine E. La Rocque

Mrs. James Spencer Lacock

Mr. Travis S. Lamberton

Mrs. Robert H. Lando

Gilbert H. Lang, M.D.

Jane Lanham

Mrs. Mary E. Lanham

Philip Lathrap

Cynthia Muss Lawrence

Mr. and Mrs. Willis Lawrence

M/SGT. Lionel L. Leblanc

Ms. Maryann D. B. Lee

Mr. Bruce Leighty

Ms. Rosealie Lesser

Loetta Lewis

Theodore W. and Barbara Ann Libbey

Ms. Jeanie Linders

Daniel M. Linguiti and Teri A. Smurl

Ms. Eleanor L. Linkous

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Liss

Ms. Anne R. Litchfield

Ms. Nina Liu

William and Katherine Livengood

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Long

Shirley Loo

Dr. and Mrs. Burton N. Lowe

Mrs. Karen F. Lowe

Frank J. Lukowski

Ms. Kayrene Lunday

Glen R. and Sally Mohr Lunde

Mr. Bradley Lutz

Ms. Susan MacKeen and 

Mr. Kenneth M. Zemrowski

Marion Maia da Cruz

Kim and Mark Mailloux

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Maluzzi

Ms. Janean L. Mann

Nancy and John Mannes

Christian L. and Edna M. March

Margery and Edgar Masinter

Mr. David J. Mason

Mr. John L. Mason

Mr. Paul Maxim

Dr. Bella J. May

Mr. Ronald W. McCain

Robert and Cynthia McCallum

Ms. June W. McCarron

Mr. and Mrs. Brandon McCrary

Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. McCrary

Mr. Stephen Davis McCrary

Lowell and Dorothy McDysan

Ms. Lowen McKay

Colonel Billy McLeod

Mr. Andrew McMahon

Alison McNally and Bobby German

Scott and Hella McVay

Miss Nora L. Melville

Ms. Mae Mercereau

Hans and Mary Miesler

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mikuletzky

Mrs. Elaine Milestone

Augustus and Deanne Miller

Dennis and Patricia Miller

Jerry Miller

Ms. Patricia Minard

Mr. George Mitchell

Mr. Emmet V. Mittlebeeler

Mr. Sidney F. Mobell

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Montanye

Dr. Judith A. Monte

Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Morgan

Charles and Helen Moriyama

Family Day dancers, 2012 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Mrs. Marie L. Morrisroe

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Jill Morrow-Gorton and 

Christopher Gorton

Robert E. Mortensen

Mr. George M. Muldrow and 

Mr. Robert G. Bragg

Joan C. Muzzillo and Paul R. Popick

Mr. and Mrs. Roger K. Myers

Mr. Marvin J. Nakashima

Lt. Col. Frank D. Neill, Jr. (Ret.)

David A. Neiss

Ms. Caroline K. Nelson

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Nelson

Ms. Arlene R. Newby

Ms. Myrtle S. Nord

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Novak

Mr. Homer C. Ogles

Ms. Setsuko Oka

Nancy L. O'Neal

Ms. Mildred S. Onion

Ms. P. Gail Osburn

Don and Lynn Owen

Mr. Richard S. Paegelow

Mrs. Irma Padgett-Haaland

Russell E. and Wendy Palmer

Stephen Parks

Mr. Robert Pastorino

John R. Patterson, Jr.

Dr. Robert C. Patton

Mary Ann and Carl Pearson

Mr. Paul L. Peck

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Pehta

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Pendlebury

Elaine and Patrick Perkins

Ms. Barbara Rescher Perry

John L. Peterson

Dr. Patti McGill Peterson and 

Dr. Kate S. Woodward

Ms. Nancy Phillips

Ms. Thelma B. Player

Mr. Don Polan

Mrs. Ann M. Potter

Bob and Janice Pound

Mr. and Mrs. Anco L. Prak

Mr. Delbert L. Price

Ms. Judy Lynn Prince

Mrs. Lakhbir Purewal

Ms. Martha Puricelli

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stanley Purvinis

Mrs. Frank K. Rabbitt

Mrs. William Rader

Mrs. Mildred F. Rafaj

Francis H. Rasmus, Jr.

Mr. Michael F. Reed

Ms. Sanae Iida Reeves

C. A. Reich

Mr. Donald L. Reinking

Reinsch Family

Jon and Emilee Reynolds

Mrs. Robert A. Rice

Colonel and Mrs. Robert F. Rick

Miss Elizabeth Candida Ridout

Mr. Robert E. Ritter

Ms. Eleanor A. Robb

Janice Stultz Roddenbery and 

Thomas Peale Roddenbery

Ms. Betty Rodgers

Mr. Scott Roeth

Ms. Laurel Rohrer

Dr. Ruth A. Roland

Mr. Norman Roscilo

The Honorable Ronald A. Rosenfeld 

and Mrs. Rosenfeld

Dr. Harry Rosenthal

Ms. Shari Rothstein

Mr. and Mrs. John Ruby

Owen F. Ruggles

Ms. Karen Russell

Louise Russell, Ph.D.

Mr. Richard T. Russell, Jr.

Ms. Sally D. Ryan

Mr. C. J. Ryburn

Edward H. Sachtleben

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Salter

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph R. 

Santa Barbara

Dr. Maria C. Santoyo-Stein

Lloyd G. and Betty A. Schermer

Donald and Marilyn Schlief

Norma Schmid

Miss Lois K. Schmidt

Ms. Deborah Schneide

Robert L. and Mary T. Schneider

Mr. Russell L. Schoudt

Andrew and Beatrice Schultz

Dr. Deanna Schupbach

Mrs. Ida Maxey Scott

Ms. Sharon Scott

Elinor Scotte-Virgona

Ms. Sheryl Scull

Mr. and Mrs. William Seely

Edwin N. Seiler

Madge Warden Selinsky

Mrs. Hope Sellers

Janice L. Settle

Robert A. and Deanne H. Seward

Mrs. Norma Gudin Shaw

Ms. Shari Diane Shaw

Winslow T. Shearman

Colonel and Mrs. Robert S. Sherman

Dr. Gerry Shigekawa

Mrs. William H. Shopp

Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Shumate

Shirley Phillips Sichel

Mary Hudson Siciliano

June and Harold Siebert

Mrs. Joan S. Siedenburg

Ms. Anne Copeland Silberman

Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Silberstein

Ms. Mary Bise Simon

Ms. Mary F. Simons

Mr. James C. Small and Mr. John A. Fry

Sandra and Lawrence Small

Dr. Barbara J. Smith

Denny G. Snyder

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen K. Soldoff

Siewchin Yong Sommer

Mrs. Irene M. Sorrough

Ms. Doris Sperber

Dr. Harry Wayne Springfield

Mr. and Mrs. George S. Sproesser

Ms. Marcia L. Sprules

Ms. Carolyn N. Stafford

Paul and Janet Stahlhuth

Mrs. Ginger Winters Stallings

Elizabeth E. Stanford

Mr. James Starkey

Ms. Eugenia L. Staszewski

Ms. Wanda B. Staszewski

Fred L. and Ruth B. Steele

Ms. Sandra Sterling

Judith Stoeri

Kevin B. Stone

Miss Irma Story

Ms. Amanda J. Stott

Edward and Diane Straker

Miss Iris M. Strauss

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Streckewald

Robert and Gail Strong

Joseph and Elizabeth Suarez

Delores Sullivan

Ralph Edward Tamper

Cuyler and Grace Taylor

George D. and Mary Augusta Thomas

Dr. and Mrs. F. Christian Thompson

Ms. Johanna W. Thompson

John and Ellen Thompson

Gary and Marie Thunem

Mrs. Diane D. Tobin

Mr. David E. Todd

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Todd

Mr. Robert Bruce Torgny

Anna Mary Tossey

Mr. and Mrs. David Tozer

Ms. Selena M. Updegraff

Fred G. and Lelia R. Valdivia

Susan A. Vallon and Andrew Beyer

Wouter K. Vanderwal

Dr. Lorna VanderZanden

Ms. Carol Vangelos

Dr. Alban Varnado

John Vernet

Mr. Davis H. von Wittenburg

Patty Wagstaff

Raymond Waite

Ms. Jeanette M. Walke

Bettye S. Walker

Ms. Esperanza R. Walker

Mrs. Peggy Wall

Miss Catherine M. Walsh

Mrs. Elizabeth Walther

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Ward

Mrs. Mary Watts

Ms. Mary Alice Waugh

Ms. Susan G. Waxter

Mrs. Virginia C. B. Webster

Mr. Les J. Weinstein

Angela Caveness Weisskopf

DarEll T. Weist and Diane Kenney

Mr. Paul E. Wellington

Mr. Walt Wells

Dale (Billie) L. Welton

Dr. Jacqueline H. Werner

Mrs. Harriet K. Westcott

Craig and Catherine Weston

Mrs. Donald W. White

Jason Sean White

Mr. Richard Whitekettle

Mr. Dale A. Whiteside

Ms. Duncan Whittome

Ms. Vivian Wilder

Mr. Donald E. Williams

Ms. Jeanne Wilson

Dr. Michael C. Wolf

Sue Ann Wolff

Gerald L. Wood

ADCS Scott B. Wood, USN, Retired

Mr. Phillip S. Woodruff

Mr. David F. Wright

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wynbrandt

Ms. Lillian Yamori

Ms. Gail Yano

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Yohannes

Judy Yoss

Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Zelenka

Dr. P. Joseph Zharn

John and Sherry Ziegler

Mrs. Nancy Behrend Zirkle

Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Zygielbaum

Donors to the Smithsonian

Recognizing our Benefactors

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Additional Support

Partners to the Smithsonian

contracts and 

grants

In addition to philanthropic support, 

the Smithsonian received the 

following government contracts and 

grants and non-government contracts 

in fiscal year 2012. Recognized 

below are organizations that provided 

support of $100,000 or more.

Annenberg Media Group

Autoridad del Canal de Panama

Ball Aerospace Technology 

Corporation

State of California

California Institute of Technology

Chevron USA Inc. 

DonorsTrust

Ecopetrol del Perù S.A.

Electric Power Research Institute

Exponent, Inc.

Fairfax County, Virginia

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation 

Commission

Giant Magellan Telescope 

Organization

Harvard University

Health Research, Inc.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 

California Institute of Technology

Government of Kenya

Lockheed Martin

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ministry of Heritage and Culture, 

Sultanate of Oman

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration

National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration, Ames 

Research Center

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration, Goddard Space 

Flight Center

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration, Marshall Space 

Flight Center

National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration, Shared 

Services Center

National Endowment for the 

Humanities

National Geospatial-Intelligence 

Agency

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

New York City Department of Cultural 

Affairs 

Shell Gabon

Stevens Institute of Technology

U.S. Agency for International 

Development 

U.S. Botanic Garden 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Farm Service Agency

U.S. Department of Commerce, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration

U.S. Department of Defense, 

Defense Contract Audit Agency

U.S. Department of Defense, 

Department of the Air Force

U.S. Department of Defense, 

Department of the Navy

U.S. Department of Defense, 

Education Activity 

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland 

Security

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Department of the Interior, 

Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service

U.S. Department of the Interior, 

U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

Federal Aviation Administration

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Postal Service, United States 

Postal Inspection Service

University of Alabama, Birmingham

University of California, Davis

University of Colorado

University of Florida

University of Maryland

Virtual Astronomical Observatory, LLC

The Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service’s Jim Henson’s Fantastic World visited the Museum of the Moving Image, New York.

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James Smithson Society

 And Friends of the Smithsonian

The common vision of James Smithson 

Society members is to support the 

Smithsonian and its mission. Through 

their philanthropy, members advance 

the research, scholarship, outreach, 

and education that are central to the 

Smithsonian and its strategic plan goals.

The year 2012 was one of the busiest for the Smithson 

Society. From July through November, the Food for 

Thought luncheon series offered Washington, D.C.-area 

members opportunities to hear from Smithsonian 

experts about music, foodways, and other topics. 

Gatherings in California, Illinois, New Jersey, and 

Wisconsin brought together members in or near their 

own communities. The 2012 Annual Smithsonian 

Weekend featured an elegant dinner at the Robert and 

Arlene Kogod Courtyard in the Donald W. Reynolds 

Center for American Art and Portraiture. For the 

first time, the weekend included top-level members 

from other Smithsonian giving circles. Weekend 

participants could attend programs at the National 

Zoological Park, a discussion of the Space Shuttle 

Discovery with an astronaut who flew on it, and 

an evening reception at the Hirshhorn Museum and 

Sculpture Garden culminating with the projection 

of multimedia artist Doug Aitken’s SONG 1 on the 

Enjoying the reception preceding the Annual Smithsonian 

Weekend James Smithson Dinner are, left to right, 

Drs. Maria Arias and Jerrold Levy, from North Carolina; 

Dr. Kathrin Mattox and Douglas Mattox, from Georgia; and 

Agnes Brown and guest David McGilvary, from Virginia.

museum’s exterior. At year-end, 447 Society members 

from almost all 50 states had contributed $1.75 

million to the Smithsonian. Many members made gifts 

of support to Smithsonian museums, research centers, 

and programs of their choice, and 11 members 

invested in the future of the Institution by making 

planned gifts.

With 82,661 member households, Friends of the 

Smithsonian continues to be among the largest 

museum membership communities in the nation. 

This year members enjoyed exclusive exhibition tours 

of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s The Great 

American Hall of Wonders; the National Museum of 

the American Indian’s A Song for the Horse Nation; and 

the National Museum of African American History 

and Culture’s Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox 

of Liberty; as well as a curator lecture on the Peacock 

Room and the Chinese art collections at the Freer 

Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Outside 

Washington, D.C., members were invited to see 

Smithsonian traveling exhibitions visiting their nearby 

Smithsonian Affiliate museums. In 2012, Friends 

contributed $13.1 million in general support to the 

Smithsonian, advancing vital programs and activities. 

Many also chose to make additional gifts or include 

the Smithsonian in their estate plans.

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james smithson 

society

Members share a deep commitment 

to the advancement of the Smithsonian 

through their dues and special 

gifts. This list shows members as of 

September 30, 2012.

john quincy 

adams circle

Anonymous (2)

Rodney and Michelle Adkins ✚

Mr. Douglas Ahlers ✚

Lucy and Gordon Ambach ✚

The Anders Foundation ✚

Barbara and Craig Barrett ✚

Mr. William H. Bohnett ✚

Mr. and Mrs. J. Kevin Buchi ▼

Peggy and Ralph Burnet ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Cafritz ✚

Abby Joseph Cohen ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Cullman, Jr. ✚

Julia and Frank Daniels, Jr. ✚

Mr. and Mrs. William Fisher ✚

Mr. and Mrs. John French III ✚

Mr. Cary J. Frieze and 

Mrs. Rose Frieze 

Ms. Brenda J. Gaines ✚

Shelby and Frederick Gans ✚

Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Gaylord II ✚

Mrs. Gloria Shaw Hamilton ▼

Ms. Myra M. Hart and 

Dr. J. Kent Hewitt ✚

Helen and Edward Hintz ✚

Lisina M. Hoch ✚

Steven and Jane Hoch ✚

Ruth S. Holmberg ✚

Judy and Bob Huret ✚

Gregory D. and Jennifer 

Walston Johnson ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kemper 

(William T. Kemper Foundation) ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Allan R. Landon ✚

John and Adrienne Mars ✚

Margery and Edgar Masinter ✚

Mr. and Mrs. James H.T. 

McConnell, Jr. ▼ 

Lester S. and Enid W. Morse ▼

Sarah E. Nash and 

Michael S. Sylvester ✚

Paul Neely ✚

Russell E. and Wendy Palmer ✚

Everett P. and Andrea Paup ▼

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Ragland, Jr. 

(Triangle Community Foundation) ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Blair E. Richardson ✚

The Honorable Ronald A. Rosenfeld 

and Mrs. Rosenfeld ▼ ✚

Ambassador and Mrs. Rockwell 

Schnabel ✚

David & Lyn Silfen Foundation ✚

Howard and Fredericka Stevenson ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Kelso F. Sutton ✚

Phyllis M. Taylor ✚

Suzanne and Michael Tennenbaum ✚

Steven and Caroline VanRoekel

Mr. Clifford J. Walker

John and Barbara Wilkerson ✚

Deborah Wince-Smith (Council on 

Competitiveness) ✚

joseph henry circle

Anonymous (2)

Ms. Doris Alexander

Altom and Carlson Foundation

Warren Ross Anderson ▼

William M. Bomar ▼

Hacker and Kitty Caldwell ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Claussen ✚

The Dorothy K. Davis Foundation, Inc. ▼

Mr. Dave Dewell

Richard Ditton ▼

Christopher Feldmann and 

Laura Beauchamp ▼

Roger S. Firestone Foundation 

(Mr. John D. Firestone, 

Ms. Gay F. Wray) ✚

Christopher James Damon Haig

Drs. J. Michael Hamilton and 

Myung H. Ham

The Frederic C. Hamilton Family 

Foundation ✚

Michael R. and Marlys G. Haverty 

Family Foundation Fund ✚ 

David and Pat Jernigan ▼

Betsy and David Lawer ✚

Drs. Jerrold Levy and Maria Arias ▼

Ms. May Liang and Mr. James Lintott ▼

Ms. Jeanie Linders

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. MacDonald ✚

Dr. and Mrs. David Machuga ▼

Elizabeth and Whitney MacMillan ✚

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Madigan 

(Madigan Family Foundation) ✚

Gus and Deanne Miller and Family ✚

Kent and Jean Papsun

Mr. James D. Parker ▼

Theron and Nancy Patrick

Ambassador Dave and Kay Phillips ✚

Lola C. Reinsch and J. Almont Pierce

Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Schlosberg III ✚

Mr. and Mrs. H. Thomas Watkins ▼

samuel pierpont 

langley circle

Anonymous (5)

Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Aldrich

The Arctica and Abbey Foundation

Lucy and Rudy Arkin

Susan and Thomas Baxter ▼

Dr. Tyson Becker and 

Ms. Katie Sutcliffe Becker

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Beggs ▼

Eve Berstein and Alex Gersznowicz

James E. Borleis ▼

Mark and Janice Buffler ▼

Robert F. Bulens ▼

Jacqui and Tom Castro ✚

Mrs. Judith L. Cherwinka ▼

Ms. Cathrine Coberly ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Cotton

Karen L. Daigle, MD ▼

Julia and Jim Davidson

Ms. Carol Deane ▼

Cheryl Dronzek ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Eacker

Jacqueline Fowler ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Frechette ▼

Mr. Alfred C. Glassell, III ▼

Ms. A.F. Greenfield

Joanne T. Greenspun ▼

Mrs. Eileen Hamilton

Felicie and Paul Hartloff ▼

Marilyn T. Heebner ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Galen Ho

Wilhelmina Cole Holladay ▼

Mary Hopkins

John A. Hoyda

Nora Hsu and Barry C. Davis ▼

Mary Jane Kilhefner ▼

Susan L. Klaus

Mr. Wayne E. Kurcz ▼

Ken and Ruthann Lehr ▼

Mr. Robert R. Little ▼

Forrest E. Mars, Jr. ▼

Mary Martell and Paul M. Johnson ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martucci ✚ 

Dennis and Patricia Miller ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Moran ▼

Ms. Marie L. Morrisroe ▼

Richard and Cheryl Moxley

Robert Oaks ▼

Marianne and David Pastor

Alan Perkins and Barbara Bonessa ▼

Helen M. Reinsch ▼

Ms. Toni Ritzenberg ▼

Ms. Jean A. Roberts ▼

Arthur and Toni Rock ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Andrew Rothkopf

Edward H. Sachtleben ▼

Ms. Susan Scanlan

Dr. and Mrs. William A. Schoenborn ▼

Madge Warden Selinsky ▼

Bob and Welmoed Sisson ▼

Sandra L. Sully ▼

Patricia S. Swaney ▼

Mary and Steven Swig ▼

Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation, 

MT ✚

William E. Thomas, Jr. ▼

Ms. Linda Vandeloop ▼

Craig and Catherine Weston ▼

Jim and Richie Wright ▼

Ellen and Bernard Young ▼

Doctors Rodney and Deborah Zeitler ▼

Kenneth M. Zemrowski ▼

s. dillon ripley circle

Anonymous (32)

Lucian Abernathy

David and Beryl Adcock ▼

Ralph Albers 

Mr. Terry L. Albertson and 

Ms. Kathleen A. Blackburn ▼

Mr. Terry G. Aldridge and 

Ms. Patricia Thomas

Mr. David H. Anderson

Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Avery ▼

Mr. Joseph F. Azara, Jr. ▼

Eleanor D. Balch

Ms. Penny Bank

Rhoda and Jordan Baruch ▼

Kathie and Jack Baumgart

John and Sally Beals

Thomas and Kathleen Beddow

Michael and Tootie Beeman ▼

Pearl Bell and Colonel Billie 

G. Matheson 

symbol key ▼ james smithson society sustaining fellow ✚ smithsonian national board member or alumnus endowed life member 

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Doctors David and 

M. L. Oster Granite ▼

Ms. Catharine Graton ▼

Mrs. Mary J. Graves ▼

Mrs. Alton B. Grimes 

Stuart Grossman ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Michael John Gunther

Margaret W. and Evan L. Haberman ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Hall ▼

Ms. Joyce Hamel

Mr. Daniel Richard Hammond

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Haney, Jr.

John E. Hansan, Ph.D.

Mr. Shawn Hansen

Mr. and Mrs. Dale S. Hanson

Andrew and Deborah Harris

Mr. Christie G. Harris ▼

Mr. Daniel W. Harris

Mr. and Mrs. Marion Edwyn Harrison ✚

Dr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Hartman, Jr.

Ms. Jill Hartman

Mr. Neil F. Hawks ▼

Mona L. Hayford

Mrs. Lucia M. Heard ▼

John E. Hennessey and Linda Polk

Catherine and Richard W. Herbst ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Herman

Barbara and Douglas Hiatt

Captain Deborah Hinkley, USN ▼

Carol and Mike Hoepner

Ms. Emma Hom

Ms. Elizabeth Homan

Mr. and Mrs. Roland A. Hoover

William Logan Hopkins 

Katherine and Joseph Householder ▼

Mr. Robert L. Howard

Ms. Vicki Howard

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Hugel ▼

William H. Hunter ▼

Diane and John Ippolito ▼

Dr. William W. Ishee

Drs. Jay A. and Mary Anne Jackson ▼

Ms. Susan Jenkins

Carolyn Johnsen and Richard Nye

Ms. Margaret E. Jones ▼

Michael and Diane Jones

Wells Jones and Donna Ceravolo

Dr. Kenneth L. Jordan ▼

Andrew Joskow and Lisa Sockett

Mr. Robin Lloyd Kaplan

Arnold and Marcia Kaplin ▼

Sheldon and Audrey Katz ▼

Richard and Elaine Kaufman 

Ms. Margaret H. Kavalaris

Mr. Jack Kay ▼

Stephen C. Keeble and Karen Depew 

Ms. Anne B. Keiser and 

Dr. Douglas M. Lapp ✚

Mrs. Nancy B. Kelly ▼

Vince and Stacie Kelly

Mr. Thomas S. Kenan III

John B. Kendrick and 

Emily M. Kendrick

Mr. Christopher Kinsey ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Kitchen ▼

Lt. Col. and Mrs. William K. Konze 

Michael and Gretchen Kriss ▼

Terri Kwiatowski and George Grogan

Judge Marion and Irene Ladwig ▼

Richard Laiderman and Jung-Wha Song

Cynthia Muss Lawrence

Ms. Linda L. Lawson ▼

James and Beverly Leach ▼

Les and Janice Lederer

Susan Lindemuth ▼

David Lloyd

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lohmann

Kirill Lokshin

Mr. Dan Longo ▼

Shirley Loo ▼

Glen R. and Sally Mohr Lunde

Penn Lupovich

Captain Kathleen M. Lyman, 

USN (Ret.) ▼

Mr. Sandy Lyons

Mr. Robert Mack ▼

Jean B. Mahoney ✚

Ms. Candice Bennett and 

Mr. William Hewitt

Mrs. Pegi W. Bernard ▼

Craig and Susan Berrington ▼

Mr. John H. Blazek ▼

Dr. George P. and Bonnie M. Bogumill ▼

Mark S. Box, M.D. ▼

Robert and Adele Boydston

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Bradley ✚

Jerry and Cheri Brady

Frances D. Bratton

The Honorable Stephen F. Brauer and 

Mrs. Brauer (Stephen F. & Camilla 

T. Brauer Charitable Trust) ✚

Mr. Eric Briggs

Mr. Andrew Brill ▼

Agnes M. Brown

David and Lois Brown

Ms. Kathryn T. Campbell ▼

Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan L. Chang ▼

Ms. Li Chu ▼

Ms. Virginia B. Clark and 

Mr. Lane Taylor

Kay L. Clausen ▼

Mr. and Mrs. J. Donald Cline

Bruce E. Cobern ▼

Joan and Harvey Cohen ▼

Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family 

Foundation ▼

Gene and Elizabeth Colice ▼

Ms. Ruth Boyer Compton 

Lori Cooke-Marra ▼

Mr. Richard P. Cooley ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Crawford

Bill and Dee Crawford

Patrisha C. Creevy, PAC ▼

Kitty and David Crosby

Stewart and Cynthia Dall

Dr. and Mrs. Paul T. Davis ▼

Dr. William R. Defoor

Gloria Foller Dehart ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard G. Dennis, Jr. ▼

Mr. David DePrest and 

Ms. Jessica DePrest

Geert M. DePrest and 

Laura Travis-DePrest ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Denis J. Deutsch

Lee and Mary Alice Dickerson

Dennis O. Dixon ▼

Doctors Joseph and Carolyn Drage ▼

Gregory A. Drake

Debbie Driesman and Frank F. Islam

Mr. and Mrs. W. John Driscoll

Diane Dudley ▼

Claudia and Dennis Dulmage

Adrienne M. Edens

Jim and Betsy Edmonds ▼

Charlotte K. Ehrenhaft ▼

Miss Babs Eisman ▼

Paul D. Ekman

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Elste

Mr. and Mrs. Richard England, Sr. ▼

Jean M. Esswein ▼

T. Faries

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Farrall

Christine R. Faser ▼

Mr. and Mrs. James J. Ferguson, Jr.

Michael Finan and Pamela Frazier

Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Fischer

Ms. Sonia Florian (The Northern 

Trust Company)

Kevin J. Flynn, FAIA

Mary and Henry Flynt ▼

Sara and Phillip Fought

Bonnie S. Franklin

Wendy Frieman and David E. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. David Morgan Frost ▼

Ms. Kerry Galvin

Kathy Buckman Gibson ▼

Mr. Ian C. Gibson-Smith

Mr. Daniel Gilbert 

Karyn C. Gill and George McC. 

Gill, MD 

Mr. Charles Goldsberry ▼

Max and Jeanne Gonzenbach ▼

Kenneth P. Gorelick, MD and 

Mrs. Cheryl Opacinch Fund ▼

Dr. Hugh Mainzer and 

Ms. Jill Jarecki Mainzer 

Ms. Patricia Maloney

Mr. Reed Michael Marquand

Ms. Jacqueline Badger Mars ▼

Virginia Cretella Mars ▼

Wayne and Tina Mathews ▼

Mr. Robert Mattox ▼

Drs. Tim and Karen Maves

Richard and Vivian McCrary ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. McCullough ▼

Mary F. McFadden ▼

John R. McIntyre

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. 

McLanahan ✚

Richard T. McMurray

Mrs. Gilbert Mead 

Ms. Eleanor Miller

Drs. Orlando J. and Dorothy A. Miller

Frances A. Edmonds (Mohr) and 

Michael D. Mohr

Mrs. Betty Montgomery

Lois and W. T. Moran, III ▼

Jill Morrow-Gorton and 

Christopher Gorton

Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Morgan ✚

Robert E. Mortensen ▼

Dr. Gary L. and Dr. Carolyn R. Mueller ▼

Drs. James and Pamela Mulshine ▼

Mrs. Don Carr Musick ▼

Joan C. Muzzillo and Paul R. Popick

Charles B. Nam ▼

RADM and Mrs. David Nash

Susan and Ron Nash

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Nelson

Mr. Richard P. Nespola, Jr.

Werner E. and Judith Neuman ▼

Ms. Deborah A. Norton ▼

Ms. Nancy Novak

Melanie and Larry Nussdorf ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Merlin G. Nygren ▼

Mike O'Dell and Judy Grass ▼

Tim and Debra Osburne

James Smithson Society

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Ambassador Mary and 

Mr. Mandell J. Ourisman ✚

Mr. Jack S. Parker ✚

Robert S. Parker ▼

Michael and Barbara Pate

Lieutenant Colonel Marra Peche, 

USANC, Ret.

Laura Peebles and Ellen Fingerman

H. O. Peet Foundation ▼

Ms. Charlotte Perret

Susan Peters and Richard Lee ▼

Ms. Debbie Petersen (James F. 

Petersen Charitable Fund)

Mr. Charles M. Pigott ✚

Mr. and Mrs. James Pigott ▼

Carol Pochardt 

Sydney M. Polakoff and Carolyn 

Goldman

Dr. Robert C. Prentice ▼

Jack and Pat Pruitt

David and Cheryl Purvis ✚

Mr. William Raduchel

Tim and Karen Ramsey ▼

Dr. Matthew J. Raymond and 

Mrs. Sonya Raymond

Justin and Jeana Redmond

Catherine A. Rein

Dr. and Mrs. Jerry M. Rice ▼

Mrs. Carlyn Ring ▼

Nancy Robertson and 

Mark Cookingham ▼

John and Anne Rollins

William P. and Brenda J. Romenius ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Francis C. Rooney, Jr. ✚

Mr. and Mrs. Greg A. Rosenbaum

David J. Rosenthal 

Tony Rosenthal and Ruth Ganister 

Howard and Janice Rosser ▼

Maryà Rowan ▼

Nancy and Clive Runnells ✚

Mr. Noel Salinger and 

Ms. LeAnne Sawyers

MajGen(Ret) Alan and 

Florence Salisbury ▼

Catherine F. Scott 

Ms. Donna Scott

Dr. Diane Scott-Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Mike Shealy

Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Sheffield 

Mr. John W. Shepard, SR.

Barbara L. Shortridge ▼

Mr. Frank Shrontz ▼

Shirley Phillips Sichel 

Dr. Mary Hudson Siciliano ▼

William and Sally Siegel Foundation

Joseph C. Smith ▼

Robert D. Smith ▼

Marianne and V. James Solfronk ▼

Mrs. Irene M. Sorrough ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Edson W. Spencer ✚

Jack B. St. Clair ▼

Gustav and Mary Staahl

Sidney Stern Memorial Trust

Mr. and Mrs. David D. Stirrett ▼

Shepard and Marlene Stone ▼

Dr. Tina H. Straley ▼

Mr. Dennis Swartz

Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Takvorian ▼

Eileen and Michael Tanner

Peter and Ann Tanous ▼

Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Teerlink ▼

Tom and Mary Evelyn Tielking ▼

Charles E. and Lois J. Toomer

Jack and Claire Tozier

The Honorable and 

Mrs. Russell E. Train ▼

Helen Brice Trenckmann ▼

John and Eileen Trent

Harvey S. Trop ▼

Bryan Troutman and 

Margaret Fischer ▼

Joseph and Cynthia Urbano

Amy and Horacio Valeiras

David and Karen Van Buren

Mr. Dennis J. Van Buskirk

Araceli R. Vargas ▼

Colonel Harold W. Vorhies 

Wendy S. and John T. Wall 

Mrs. Richard L. Watson ▼

Mr. Rodney T. Weber

Angela Caveness Weisskopf ▼

W. A. Wheeler

Mrs. Ben White ▼

Mrs. Donald W. White 

Mr. Jeffrey Williams ▼

Pat Wilmeth ▼

Janice Wilson ▼

Mr. Neal L. Wood ▼

Dianne and David Worley

Wallace and Mona Wu ▼

Dolores Yankauskas ▼

Linda J. Young ▼

Mary L. Zicarelli

Roads of Arabia featured archaeological discoveries not previously shown 

in the United States, like this 4th millennium BCE anthropomorphic stele.

symbol key ▼ james smithson society sustaining fellow ✚ smithsonian national board member or alumnus endowed life member 

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Smithsonian National Board

Leadership, Counsel, and Philanthropic Support

Above: Leadership of the 2012 Smithsonian National Board, 

from left: Sakurako D. Fisher, Vice Chair; Paul Neely, Chair; 

Judy S. Huret, Vice Chair.

Opposite: A fossilized whale uncovered in Peru’s Atacama 

desert was digitally scanned to document it in 3D in a 

project involving Natural History museum scientist Nicholas 

Pyenson and a team of Smithsonian 3D experts. 

The Smithsonian National Board 

furthers the mission and strategic plan 

goals of the Institution through the 

dedication and commitment of its 40 

members and more than 175 alumni. 

These individuals provide advice and counsel to the 

Secretary and his leadership team, are ambassadors 

who expand the Smithsonian’s place in the lives of 

people everywhere, and are philanthropic leaders who 

help raise the private funds that are transforming the 

Institution through their own gifts and by encouraging 

gifts from others. 

Spring and fall meetings in Washington, D.C., 

advanced the Board’s commitment to Smithsonian 

leadership development, broadening access, fellowships, and the branding initiative. The Board traveled 

to Panama for its mid-winter meeting, hosted by 

the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, where 

attendees learned about the Institute’s global leadership in tropical biodiversity, saw its commitment to 

sharing its learning with the public, and attended the 

groundbreaking of the new Gamboa campus. 

The Board continued to be the Institution’s ambassador by hosting the Secretary and other leaders at 10 

“friend-raising” events in member and alumni home 

towns and Chair Paul Neely and Vice Chair Judy Huret 

gave presentations in their communities about the 

Smithsonian, its mission, and its goals. The Board’s 

engagement in the Smithsonian’s future continued to 

expand, with 28 members and alumni serving on 14 

Smithsonian advisory boards and the Board of Regents 

Advancement Committee.

In 2012, Smithsonian National Board members 

and alumni contributed $1.28 million in general support 

to the Smithsonian, and the Secretary directed 

Board-provided support to university partnerships, 

broadening access, new initiatives, and research. 

Overall, National Board members and alumni gave 

a total of $18.2 million to the Smithsonian, advancing 

its mission and investing in its people, places, 

programs, and treasures.

Paul Neely, Chair

Sakurako D. Fisher, 

Vice Chair, 2013 Chair-elect

Judy S. Huret, Vice Chair

Members

Rodney C. Adkins

Douglas Ahlers

Gordon M. Ambach

Valerie Anders

Judy Hart Angelo

Barbara McConnell Barrett

William H. Bohnett

Peggy P. Burnet

Jane Lipton Cafritz

Thomas H. Castro

Abby Joseph Cohen

Edgar M. Cullman, Jr., 

2013 Vice Chair-elect

Vin Di Bona*

Michael R. Francis

John French III

Brenda J. Gaines

Shelby M. Gans

E. K. Gaylord II

Myra M. Hart

Edward R. Hintz

John C. Jay

Jennifer Walston Johnson

Dennis J. Keller*

Jonathan M. Kemper

David S. Kidder

Allan R. Landon

Betsy Lawer

Cheryl Winter Lewy*

Robert D. MacDonald, 

2013 Vice Chair-elect

Sarah E. Nash

Russell E. Palmer, Jr.

William M. Ragland, Jr.

Kristin M. Richardson

Ronald A. Rosenfeld

Alison Wrigley Rusack*

Marna Schnabel

Fredericka Stevenson

Phyllis M. Taylor

Michael E. Tennenbaum

Wendy Somerville Wall 

(ex officio) 

L. John Wilkerson

Emily B. Willey (ex officio)*

Deborah L. Wince-Smith

Honorary Members

Robert McC. Adams

William S. Anderson

Max N. Berry

L. Hardwick Caldwell III

Frank A. Daniels, Jr.

Charles D. Dickey, Jr. 

Patricia Frost

I. Michael Heyman

James M. Kemper, Jr.

Jean B. Mahoney

Sandra Day O’Connor

Francis C. Rooney, Jr.

Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.

Lloyd G. Schermer

Frank A. Weil

Gay F. Wray

*Term began October 2012

2012 smithsonian national board

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Distinguished Benefactors

Donors to the Smithsonian

Anonymous

3M 

AAA

Charles Francis Adams

Hugh Trumbull Adams

M. Clay Adams

A&E Television Networks

Aflac Incorporated

The Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Lee and Elizabeth Ainslie

Airbus

Alcoa

American Airlines

American Chemical Society

American Express

American International Group, Inc. (AIG)

American Public Transportation Association

American Road & Transportation Builders 

Association

AMS Foundation for the Arts, Sciences and 

Humanities

Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar

Analytical Graphics, Inc.

Anheuser-Busch Foundation

Annenberg Foundation

Apple Computer, Inc.

Art Research Foundation

Association of American Railroads

Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc.

Herbert and Evelyn Axelrod

Bank of America 

Laura Barney

Barbara and Craig Barrett

Kenneth E. Behring Family

Max N. and Heidi L. Berry

Barbara and James Block

Mary and Leigh B. Block

Bloomberg

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Winton M. “Red” Blount

The Boeing Company

Bombardier

Mrs. Virginia O. Boochever

F. Otis Booth, Jr.

Agnes C. Bourne

Dr. and Mrs. T.B. Boyd III and Family

The R.H. Boyd Company

Fleur Straus Bresler

 The Bresler Foundation

The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston

Hildegard Bruck and Alfred Egerter

Dr. Peter Buck

The Emil Buehler Trust

The Burkle Family Foundation 

William A. Burleson

Burroughs Wellcome Fund 

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz 

Foundation

Hacker and Kitty Caldwell

Margaret A. Cargill Foundation

Susan and Jim Cargill 

 Meghann and Patrick Harker

 Christian Harker

The E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter 

Foundation

Cessna Aircraft Company

CIGNA

The Coca-Cola Company

Dr. and Mrs. David A. Cofrin 

The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family 

Foundation

The Comer Foundation

The Commonwealth of Virginia

Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial 

Foundation

Lee H. Cruse Trust

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Cullman, 3rd

The Daniels Fund

Peggy and Richard M. Danziger

Richard Darman

Marcel and Serge Dassault

Florence Coulson Davis

Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen

Bern Dibner

Jim and Janet Dicke 

Valerie and Charles Diker 

Discover Financial Services, Inc.

Discovery Communications, Inc.

Patricia C. Dodge

Donald J. and Helen D. Douglass

DuPont

EDS

The Eberly Family Charitable Trust

Dorothy E. Ebersbach

Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz

EMC Corporation

Anne and Travis Engen

Joseph Manfred Ennis

Charles H. Ettl

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Evans

ExxonMobil

FedEx Corporation

The Fertilizer Institute

Nancy B. and Hart Fessenden

Barbara G. Fleischman

Martha Parks Forrest

The Ford Foundation

Ford Motor Company Fund

Charles Lang Freer

Patricia and Phillip Frost

Fujifilm

The Funger Foundation, Norma Lee 

and Morton Funger

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

General Motors Foundation

The Glenstone Foundation, 

Mitchell P. Rales, Founder

Goldman Sachs

Alice R. Gottesman

Arvin Gottlieb

Katharine Graham

Dr. Leonard M. Greene

William H. Gross

The George Gund Foundation

George Gund III and Iara Lee

James E. Gysin

Karl H. Hagen

Enid A. Haupt

William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Drue Heinz Trust

Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.

Edward P. and Rebecca R. Henderson

Janine and J. Tomilson Hill

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Ikuo Hirayama

Joseph Hirshhorn

Frank and Lisina Hoch

Hubert N. (Jay) Hoffman, III

The Distinguished Benefactors Room in the Smithsonian 

Castle building honors the Institution’s most generous 

contributors—individuals whose gifts total $1 million or 

more, and foundations and corporations that have made 

one-time gifts of the same amount.

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Holenia Trust

Ruth S. and A. William Holmberg

Janet Annenberg Hooker

Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz

Grant W. Howell

John R. Huggard

IBM Corporation

Intel Corporation

International Lease Finance Corporation

J & AR Foundation

Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation

James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs

Robert L. Johnson

Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.

The JSM Charitable Trust, James S. 

McDonnell III, John F. McDonnell

Georgette and Herman Kamenetz

Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan

The W.M. Keck Foundation

Herb Kelleher

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

R. Crosby Kemper

William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust

Peter B. Kibbee

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

David H. Koch 

Robert and Arlene Kogod

The Korea Foundation

Kraft Foods

The Kresge Foundation

Constance and Harvey Krueger

B.Y. Lam Foundation

Lannan Foundation

Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak

Robert Lehrman

The Lemelson Foundation

Thelma and Melvin Lenkin 

Barbara Riley Levin

Edith S. and Arthur J. Levin

Frank Levinson Family Foundation

Leon Levy Foundation

Rod Lewis and Family

Life Technologies Foundation

Lilly Endowment Inc.

Lockheed Martin

Jeffrey H. Loria

Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation

Jon and Lillian Lovelace

Lower Manhattan Development 

Corporation

The Henry Luce Foundation

The Lunder Foundation

Peter and Paula Lunder

The Elizabeth Carolyn Lux Foundation

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur 

Foundation

Elizabeth and Whitney MacMillan

Barbara and Morton Mandel 

Christian L. and Edna M. March

Nancy and Edwin Marks

Alice S. Marriott Lifetime Trust/The J. 

Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation

Mars, Incorporated

John and Adrienne Mars

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation

Margery and Edgar Masinter

McDonald’s Corporation

Nan Tucker McEvoy

MCI WorldCom

James L. and Juliette McNeil

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc.

Microsoft Partners in Learning

Gus and Deanne Miller and Family

Sidney Mobell

The Mohegan Tribe of Indians of 

Connecticut

The A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney 

Møller Foundation

Monsanto 

The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Mark & Brenda Moore and Family

Morgan Stanley

Lester S. and Enid W. Morse 

Susan and Furman Moseley

Motorola Foundation

Robert O. Muller

NAMM - International Music Products 

Association

National Asphalt Pavement Association

National Association of Realtors

National Business Aviation Association, Inc. 

National Mining Association

National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association

Paul Neely

H. Duane Nelson

NYSE Foundation

The Nippon Foundation

Nissan North America, Inc.

Nordic Council of Ministers

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Occidental Chemical Corporation

Ocean Conservancy

Carroll O’Connor and 

Nancy Fields O’Connor

Timothy and Linda O’Neill

Oneida Indian Nation (New York)

Yoko Ono

The Moses and Frances Asch Collection documents American and world music. It is being 

digitized to make its treasures, like this letter by Woody Guthrie, accessible to all. 

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Orkin Exterminating Company, Inc.

Bernard and Barbro Osher

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Russell E. and Wendy Palmer

Richard D. and Laura A. Parsons

Pearson Foundation

Paul Peck

Peterson Family Foundation

The Pew Charitable Trusts

Pioneer Electronics (USA), Inc.

Pitney Bowes Inc.

Robert W. Pittman

Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation

Poor Richard’s Charitable Trust

The Principal Financial Group

The Prudential Foundation

Franklin D. Raines

Rasmuson Foundation

Raytheon Company

Reve Foundation

Donald W. Reynolds Foundation

Robinson Helicopter Company

Sara Roby Foundation

David Rockefeller

The Rockefeller Foundation

Rolex

Rolls-Royce

Samuel G. Rose and Julie Walters

Susan and Elihu Rose

Arthur Ross Foundation

Valerie and Jack Rowe

Alice and David Rubenstein

Arthur M. Sackler

Arthur M. Sackler Foundation

Dr. Elizabeth Sackler/The Arthur M. Sackler 

Foundation 

Dame Jillian Sackler, D.B.E.

Else Sackler

John and Joy Safer 

Victoria and Roger Sant 

Deborah Sara Santana

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Mr. and Mrs. B. Francis Saul II

Lloyd G. and Betty A. Schermer

S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.

Nina and Ivan Selin

Seneca Nation of Indians

Shell

Frank B. and Faye Sherry

Shirley Phillips Sichel

Paul Singer

Sketch Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Albert and Shirley Small

Small World Institute Fund at Silicon Valley 

Community Foundation

Robert H. and Clarice Smith 

Soil Science Society of America

Guenther and Siewchin Yong Sommer

The Speedwell Foundation 

Michael and Jenny Messner 

and Family

Alan and Terri Spoon

Earl W. and Amanda Stafford

The Starr Foundation

State Farm Insurance Companies

Margaret and Terry Stent

Patty Stonesifer and Michael Kinsley

The Summit Fund of Washington

Target

Terra Foundation for American Art

Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw 

Charitable Trust

Tiffany & Co. Foundation

Time Warner Foundation

Timex Corporation

TRW

Earl S. Tupper

Turner Foundation, Inc.

TWA

Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Udvar-Hazy

Richard O. Ullman Family Foundation

UnitedHealth Group

United Soybean Board

United States Mint

United States Postal Service

UPS

The Upton Trust

Esme Usdan and James Snyder

Anne van Biema

Van Cleef & Arpels

Reginald Van Lee

Verizon Foundation

Teodoro Vidal

VOLVO

Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan

Jean and Davis H. von Wittenburg

Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund

Walmart

The Walt Disney Company

Warner Bros.

Alexander and Annie B. Wetmore

Coralyn Wright Whitney

Norman C. and Catherine M. Willcox

The Oprah Winfrey Foundation 

Harry Winston Hope Foundation, Inc.

Harry Winston Research Foundation, Inc. 

Ronald Winston

The World Bank

Xerox Corporation

Distinguished Benefactors

Donors to the Smithsonian

A mammoth or mastodon figure incised on this Ice Age bone fragment is unique in the 

Americas, and dates to about 13,000 years ago, Natural History museum and University of 

Florida researchers announced.

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Ways to Give

Your Support Helps Educate, Inspire, and Bring People Together

Each year, gifts from friends and 

benefactors help the Smithsonian 

meet the enormous cost of providing 

programs and services, year‐round 

and free of charge, to millions 

of people throughout the world.

Today’s Smithsonian is:

● The world’s largest provider of museum 

experiences through in-person visits, traveling 

exhibitions, and online resources that reach across 

the nation and around the globe; 

● An international leader in science and scholarship, 

whose experts probe the boundaries of space, 

explore the evolution and diversity of life, and help 

us understand the American experience and the 

diversity of human cultures;

● A partner in education, providing informal 

education for life-long learners, standards-based 

classroom materials for K-12 students, teacher 

training materials, and intern and fellowship 

opportunities that benefit undergraduate through 

post-doctoral scholars; and

● A national treasure caring for America’s most 

cherished and iconic objects and holding in trust for 

every citizen its priceless collections.

Never before has your gift been more valued or 

made so great an impact. We rely on the thoughtful 

and generous support of individuals, foundations, 

and corporations. There are many ways to support the 

Smithsonian. Please contact us to learn more. 

Giving Online

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may enjoy a wide variety of benefits and events. 

Annual membership levels range from $75 to 

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As members of the Smithsonian Legacy Society, 

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For Further Information

To learn how you can support the Smithsonian and 

its dynamic mission “for the increase and diffusion of 

knowledge,” please contact:

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Office of Advancement

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www.si.edu/giving

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board of regents

The Chief Justice of the United States 

Ex officio, Chancellor

France A. Córdova

Citizen of New Mexico, Chair

John W. McCarter, Jr.

Citizen of Illinois, Vice Chair

The Vice President of the 

United States 

Ex officio

Thad Cochran

Senator from Mississippi

Patrick J. Leahy

Senator from Vermont

Jack Reed

Senator from Rhode Island

Xavier Becerra

Representative from California

Tom Cole

Representative from Oklahoma

Sam Johnson

Representative from Texas

Barbara M. Barrett

Citizen of Arizona

Steve M. Case

Citizen of Virginia

Shirley Ann Jackson

Citizen of New York

Robert P. Kogod

Citizen of Washington, D.C.

David M. Rubenstein

Citizen of Maryland

Roger W. Sant

Citizen of Washington, D.C.

Patricia Q. Stonesifer

Citizen of Washington State

John K. Lapiana

Chief of Staff to the Regents

Scott S. Dahl

Inspector General

As of May 1, 2013 

administration

G. Wayne Clough

Secretary

Albert G. Horvath

Under Secretary for Finance 

and Administration

Richard Kurin

Under Secretary for History, Art, 

and Culture

Eva J. Pell

Under Secretary for Science

Claudine K. Brown

Assistant Secretary for Education 

and Access

Patricia L. Bartlett

Chief of Staff to the Secretary

Virginia B. Clark

Director, Advancement 

and Philanthropic Giving

Judith E. Leonard

General Counsel

Evelyn S. Lieberman

Director, Communications 

and External Affairs

Christopher Liedel

President, Smithsonian Enterprises

Era L. Marshall

Director, Office of Equal Employment 

and Minority Affairs

To contact staff members listed above, 

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museums

Anacostia Community Museum

Camille Giraud Akeju, Director

MRC 777, P.O. Box 37012

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202.633.4839

Cooper‐Hewitt, 

National Design Museum

Caroline Baumann, Acting Director

2 East 91st Street

New York, N.Y. 10128‐0669

212.849.8400

Freer Gallery of Art and 

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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Sackler Director of the Arthur M. 

Sackler Gallery of Art and the 

Freer Gallery of Art

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Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

202.633.0456

Hirshhorn Museum and 

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Richard Koshalek, Director

MRC 350, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

202.633.2824

National Air and Space Museum and 

The Steven F. Udvar‐Hazy Center

Gen. John R. Dailey 

(USMC, Ret.), Director

MRC 310, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

202.633.2350

National Museum of African 

American History and Culture

Lonnie G. Bunch, Director

MRC 509, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

202.633.4751

National Museum of African Art

Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Director

MRC 708, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

202.633.4610

National Museum of American 

History, Kenneth E. Behring Center

John Gray, The Elizabeth 

MacMillan Director

MRC 622, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

202.633.3435

National Museum of the 

American Indian

Kevin Gover, Director

MRC 590, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

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National Museum of Natural History

Kirk Johnson, The Sant Director

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Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

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National Portrait Gallery

Kim Sajet, Director 

MRC 973, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

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National Postal Museum

Allen R. Kane, Director

MRC 570, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

202.633.5500

National Zoological Park

Dennis W. Kelly, Director

3001 Connecticut Avenue N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20008

202.633.4442

Smithsonian American Art Museum 

and its Renwick Gallery

Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and 

Terry Stent Director

MRC 970, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

202.633.8430

research centers

Archives of American Art

Kate Haw, Director

MRC 937, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, D.C. 20013‐7012

202.633.7940

Museum Conservation Institute

Robert J. Koestler, Director

4210 Silver Hill Road

Suitland, Md. 20746‐2863

301.238.1205

Smithsonian Astrophysical 

Observatory

Charles R. Alcock, Director

60 Garden Street

Cambridge, Mass. 02138

617.495.7100

Smithsonian Conservation 

Biology Institute

Steve Monfort, Director

1500 Remount Road

Front Royal, Va. 22630

541.635.6506

Smithsonian Environmental 

Research Center

Anson H. Hines, Jr., Director

P.O. Box 28

Edgewater, Md. 21037

443.482.2208

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What makes stars sparkle or skyscrapers stand tall? Why does a 

certain species face extinction? Space travel was the stuff of science 

fiction until someone asked, “How?” 

At the Smithsonian, big questions are the common denominators that unite our museums, research 

centers, and programs. And curiosity is contagious. Today’s small child who looks in awe at 

the big dinosaurs that once roamed the earth and wonders, “What happened?” might just be 

tomorrow’s paleontologist.

Among this year’s stories is a dynamic example of the impact Smithsonian experts can have when 

they come together across disciplines: in African Cosmos, our experts tell an international story 

of how indigenous peoples have interpreted the mysteries of the universe. The dramatic arrival 

of the space shuttle Discovery excited visitors and inspires us with its particular blend of adventure 

and practicality. And the Smithsonian’s newest museum, the National Museum of African 

American History and Culture, will challenge visitors to ponder race, reconciliation, and how the 

story of one American is the story of all Americans. 

No matter what kind of questions you have, the Smithsonian has answers that will surprise and 

delight you. Visit us at www.seriouslyamazing.com to see how we make questions come alive.

None of this would be possible without you. We depend on private philanthropy to keep us 

vibrant and relevant to a new and increasingly diverse generation of Americans. The Smithsonian 

belongs to you, and we deeply appreciate the contributions of all who asked themselves, 

“How can I be a part of my Smithsonian?” Your response to that question makes all the difference.

Letter from the Secretary 

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Office of Advancement

1000 Jefferson Drive S.W., 4th floor

MRC 035, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

Phone: 202.633.4300

Front cover: Seen through the submerged viewing window, the

Seal and Sea Lion Exhibit comes alive. Read more about the

National Zoo’s newly-opened American Trail on pages 22–23. 

Smithsonian

SERIOUSLY AMAZING®

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