Elena S. Danielson Appointed Associate Director at Hoover Institution; Charles G. Palm Retires.News Editors/Education Writers STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2002 Elena S. Danielson has been appointed associate director of the Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President and director of the Hoover Library and Archives. She succeeds Charles G. Palm, who retired as of Dec. 31, 2001. Danielson joined the Hoover Institution in 1978 and has served in positions of increasing responsibility since then. In 1981, she was named an assistant archivist ARCHIVIST. One to whose care the archives have been confided. , in 1988, was promoted to associate archivist, and in 1997, was named archivist. She also serves as curator of the Institution's West European Collection. Danielson has written for a number of academic and archival publications, such as American Archivist, and she has presented information at conferences in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, and Russia. She is a regular contributor to the Hoover Digest. Before her Hoover appointment, Danielson held teaching positions at Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. University and Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . Danielson holds a Ph.D. and an A.M. degree in German studies from Stanford, a master's degree in library science and an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal . Charles G. Palm joined the Hoover Institution in 1971 and served as deputy director of the Hoover Institution since 1990. Palm's long and distinguished career at Hoover included a 1992 negotiated agreement between the Institution and the Russian State Archival Service, which led to the worldwide distribution on microfilm of more than 12 million pages from the Soviet Communist Party and State Archives. Palm directed the acquisition program that brought to Hoover many other major collections, including 2.5 tons of materials on the collapse of communism and the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and the voluminous archives of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He was appointed by President George Bush to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in 1990, serving until 1996. In 1998, he was appointed to the California Heritage Preservation Commission, which promotes preservation of the state's history. Palm was elected chairman of the commission in 1997. Palm was cocompiler of Herbert Hoover: A Register of His Papers in the Hoover Institution Archives (Hoover Institution Press, 1983) and Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives (Hoover Institution Press, 1980). Palm was associate director for the library and archives, 1987-90; head librarian, 1986-87; and archivist, 1984-87. He is a fellow of the Society of American Archivists The Society of American Archivists (established 1936) is the oldest and largest archivist association in North America, serving the educational and informational needs of more than 3,400 individual and institutional members. . He was president of the Society of California Archivists from 1983 to 1984. He earned his A.B. degree in history from Stanford University in 1966 and graduate degrees from the University of Wyoming UW is a national research university prominent in the fields of environment and natural resource research, specializing in agriculture, energy, geology, and water resource related fields. and the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. . The Hoover Institution, founded at Stanford University in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, who went on to become the 31st president of the United States The head of the Executive Branch, one of the three branches of the federal government. The U.S. Constitution sets relatively strict requirements about who may serve as president and for how long. , is an interdisciplinary research center for advanced study on domestic public policy and international affairs. |
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