Press Release

For The Federalist - June 2001

History Associates Incorporated (HAI) of Rockville, Maryland, has marked the occasion of its twentieth anniversary by publishing a written history titled The Best Company in History™: History Associates Incorporated, 1981-2001, which chronicles the company's evolution as a historical research firm since its founding in 1981. HAI formally commemorated this milestone on April 7 at Rockville's Glenview Mansion with a gathering of more than a hundred guests that included former and current employees and clients. The event, hosted by company President Dr. Philip L. Cantelon, featured a photographic and documentary exhibit depicting the company's achievements.

An article about public history titled "Today's History Lesson: Look to the Past for a Job With a Future," which discussed HAI and quoted Dr. Cantelon at length, was published in the March 31 issue of the International Herald Tribune.

The Public Welfare Foundation has been named a Gold Award winner in the 2001 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program for Excellence in Communications for Seeking the Greatest Good: The Public Welfare Foundation, written by HAI Senior Historian Dr. Peggy M. Dillon, a member of the Society for History in the Federal Government. The D.C.-based foundation, established in 1947, won the award for both Dr. Dillon's book and a companion biography of the founder, Anonymous Giver: A Life of Charles E. Marsh, written by Philip Kopper and to which Dr. Dillon contributed a chapter. The awards program, co-sponsored by the Council on Foundations and the Communications Network, "recognizes and encourages excellence in communications by foundations and corporate giving programs."

History Associates archivists, in collaboration with personnel at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), recently completed a Profiles in Science website about Nobel laureate Marshall Nirenberg. The section on Dr. Nirenberg—who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on deciphering the genetic code—marks the sixth and latest addition to the Profiles site, which makes available to Internet users the papers of prominent twentieth-century American biomedical scientists, most of whom have won the Nobel prize. The website is at http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov, and the link to the Nirenberg papers is http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov//JJ/.

HAI Historian Linda A. Hahn organized two panel discussions at the 54th Annual Pacific Northwest History Conference, whose theme was "Northwest 2001: Spaces and Landscapes in Our Region," held April 19-21 in Portland, Oregon. One panel was titled "Protesting Progress: Reclamation, Dams, and Endangered Species," the other "Perspectives on Fisheries of the Columbia River Basin," at which she presented a paper titled "Science, Fish Culture, and E.E. Wilson, 1935-49."