Annual Report of the Archivist, 1986
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ARCHIVIST - 1986 Your archivist has had to labor under adverse conditions this past year. First, the pastor held out the promise that the Archives would be moved back to the old Trustees' Room in the tower - with the proviso this time around that it would be heated, lighted, cleaned, painted, supplied with cupboards and (most important) freed of pigeons. That hasn't happened yet. What has happened is that the Archives workroom has had a pull-down ladder put into its ceiling. You can rest assured that this was not at my urging. In the process, about a ton of plaster dust has been deposited over my desk, everything on the desk, and on the table given by Virginia Cambreleng, as well as on the stacks of archive boxes. The large pictures that were moved out of the room were moved into the Archive display room, effectively blocking access to files and cupboards there. Under these conditions I have prepared an address for one Forum sessio...