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Vol. 26:2 ISSN 0160-8460 June 1998
Ann Newhall Appointed Executive Director
Ms. Ann Clifford Newhall has accepted the position of Executive Director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. She will join the NHPRC in August. Ms. Newhall comes to the Commission with more than 20 years of experience in archival administration. She is currently the archivist of the Records and Communications Unit, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland. She is responsible for the administration of archives, records management, internal communications, and reproduction services operations for the UNHCR headquarters and all field office and special operations. From 1993 to 1995, Ms. Newhall was the chief of the Records and Archives Unit, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, in Rome, Italy.
Ms. Newhall has also held positions as Archivist of the Ford Foundation in New York, and as an archivist at Yale University Library in New Haven, CT. While at Yale, Ms. Newhall indexed and assisted in the editing of the Diary of Colonel Edward M. House. She holds Master of Arts degrees in American Studies from Yale University and in American History from Southern Connecticut State University. She is currently Vice Chair of the Section on International Organizations, International Council on Archives.
