FROM THE STACKS - Volume 4
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The Esther Heydt Collection
sent to Alan Cook. The 25 cartons of puppets, weighing 500 pounds total included sets of puppets sculpted by Helga Forster and three puppets carved by an artisan in Roswell, N.

Many things have been sent out to exhibits and are now ready to return. And some have found a new home in Seattle with our beneficiary Dmitri Carter of the Carter Family Marionettes at the Northwest Puppetry Center. Dmitri has sucessfully used them in TWO exhibits. One at the Seattle Center, and another at the Northwest Regional Puppetry Festival.

Meanwhile, we had an exhibit in Ogden, Utah that went up and was so successful that the Childrens' Treehouse Museum asked that we extend the stay as their attendance increased dramatically. They also asked us to leave them PERMANENTLY! (Unfortunately they are scheduled for elsewhere) This just proves the wonder that puppets have for the public.

Lest I am remiss I would like to welcome two new volunteers to the fold:

First came Phaedra Giannini, from Chapman University who" enjoys building, seeing, and generally being around puppets & puppet people". She has been going into each of the storage boxes and making sure that ALL the puppets have COMPLETE & ACCURATE documentation, and that everyone is in the proper boxes, with NO A.W.O.L.s.