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UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 27, April 17


            Administrative changes made in art conservation
     
     Joyce Hill Stoner, chairperson of the Department of Art
Conservation and director of the joint Winterthur/University
of Delaware Master's Degree Program in Art Conservation,
will resign those positions, effective July 1, to devote her
energies full-time to the teaching, research and service
missions of the department and its programs.
     Bryant F. Tolles Jr., director of the Museum Studies
Program, will become interim chairperson of the department,
and Debra Hess Norris, associate professor of art
conservation and associate director of the Winterthur/UD
program, will become director of the program.
     Stoner has chaired the Department of Art Conservation
since 1990 and has served as director of the Winterthur/UD
program since 1982. Major accomplishments during that period
include raising endowments to support students in the
master's degree program and for support of doctoral
students, the founding of the first Ph.D. Program in Art
Conservation Research in North America in 1989 and the
achievement of an international reputation for the program,
its faculty and graduates.
     Tolles, who also is an associate professor of history
with a joint appointment in art history, brings associations
with various museums and visual arts-related programs to his
new position as interim chairperson. He has served as
director of UD's Museum Studies Program and a member of the
history and art history faculties since 1984.
     Norris, a specialist in photographic conservation, has
taught at the University since 1982. She joined the
Winterthur/UD program as a full-time faculty member and
assistant professor in 1988. Currently, she is serving her
second two-year term as president of the American Institute
for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, the
leading professional organization in the field of art
conservation.