Freelance Author Research Articles

Cultural history museums and human ecology—a challenge to integration

Bo Nilsson was born in Sweden in 1941. Degree in art history, ethnology, ethnography and archaeology. Worked with school programmes and later with archive questions at the Nordic Museum in the 1960s and early 1970s. From 1976 to 1983, was head of the photographic department at the City Museum of Stockholm. Since 1984 has been at the National Council for Cultural Affairs working with projects on ecology and new technologies in museums. Bengt Rosen was born in Sweden in 1941. PhD. In ecology. A teacher of natural sciences, since 1971 at the high school of Visby, Gotland Island. Has worked as a freelance author in news media since 1968. Promoter of the Museum of Nature of Gotland 1974–85. Member of the special committee on education of the Swedish Society for the Preservation of Nature. Has done evaluative work on behalf of the Swedish Board of Research 1985/86.

History inside Business

1. Through my participation in the Public Historical Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and my employment, I have met and heard of a number of fellow historians serving the business world. Among the living examples of historians inside business and the variety of work they do are the following people: Corporate Archivists-Edie Hedlin and Harold Anderson, Wells Fargo Bank; Philip Mooney, Coca Cola Company; Douglas A. Balken, Ford Archives; Greg Lennes, International Harvester; and John Donofrio, Bank of America. Corporate Historians (authors and researchers of business histories and other business-related historical literature)-Enid Douglass, Arco; William Heintz, freelance author of historical biographies of California wineries; Philip Cantelon (C & W consultants) on Three Mile Island; Stephen S. Oakford, Hotel Del Coronado; Karen Smith, Salt River Project Company; Mimi Stein, Silicon Valley oral history project; Kathy Lang, Lawry's Foods; and Frank H. H. King, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Policy, Economic, and Regional Analysis-Lawrence Bruser, Mitsui Corporation; Florence Alberts, Bank of America; and Robert W Pomeroy, Inter-American Development Bank.

Talking shop

In March 1981 a conversation was arranged between two people whose work in English language teaching has become well known in very different ways: Christopher Brumfit of the University of London Institute of Education, and Donn Byrne, formerly of the British Council and now free-lance author, teacher and teacher-trainer. More detailed biographical information follows these extracts.

Erratum: Translation Program

The note that announces E. L. Reynolds' visiting appointment to Hiroshima Women's College [ Science 132, 213 (22 July 1960)] indicates that Reynolds is a member of the staff of the Fels Research Institute, when in fact he has not been actively associated with the institute for a decade. During the past 10 years he has been employed by the Atomic Energy Casualty Commission in Japan and self-employed as a freelance author and lecturer and owner-navigator of the yacht Phoenix .