Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Office of Communications.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Office of Communications records, 1991-1993.
There are conference, seminar and meeting materials, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, congressional statements, reprints, papers, and audiocassette tape transcriptions. The records contain information on two areas where WHO has been involved in a public and controversial topic: deep ocean isolation of waste, and radioactive waste disposal in the ocean. There are also files on two congressional seminars, which include a trip report, edited by Charles D. Hollister, about a US delegation's trip to St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russian on Sept. 20-25, 1992. Lastly there are files relating to WHOI's Oral History Colloquy which Director Craig Dorman initiated and the Communications Office organized. The Colloquy fiels contain two copies of the tape transcription and participant's lists and correspondence, including information on Roger Revelle who died July 15, 1991, on the eve of the History Colloquy. There is related Colloquy information in the Director's fiels, Craig Dorman.
The Office of Communications was created in 1990, and Sally K. Riggs became the first and only Director from April 1, 1990 to December 1993. Her responsibilities included overseeing the Public Information Office, Institution publications including Oceanus, media relations, the Exhibit center, general public relations, and some aspects of the Institution's governmental relations program. She was part of WHOI's reorganization scheme started in the summer of 1990 by WHOI director, Craig Dorman, designed to create better flow of information between WHOI and Falmouth. Hierarchically, the Communciations Director came under the Assoc. Dir. for External Affairs (Charles Hollister), and handled the "Non-fund-raising, external affairs area", with the Development Office as the fund-raising arm. Sallie Riggs and her assistant Gail McPhee, hosted various people and groups, including the congressional staff. She also worked with Development, Education, and Industrial and International Programs to support the Institutions activities. The office closed in Dec. 1993 due to a change in funding allocations.
Revelle, Roger, 1909-1991-
Dorman, Craig.
Hollister, C. D.
Riggs, Sallie K.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution -- Public relations.
Face of the deep.
Public relations.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ocean.
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