[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 204 Referred in House (RFH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. J. RES. 204


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 1994

              Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
 Recognizing the American Academy in Rome, an American overseas center 
  for independent study and advanced research, on the occasion of the 
                   100th anniversary of its founding.

Whereas the American Academy in Rome was established 100 years ago in Italy as 
        the foremost American overseas center for independent study and advanced 
        research on the fine arts and the humanities;
Whereas the American Academy in Rome has been a constant, active force for the 
        enrichment of American culture, as year after year its Fellows and 
        Residents have returned to the United States, enriched by the cultural 
        heritage of Italy, and have conveyed their enrichment to their 
        compatriots;
Whereas the American Academy in Rome has maintained and expanded upon the basis 
        of its founding, and currently serves more than 3,000 people annually 
        with its fellowship and residency programs, its unique research library, 
        a series of summer programs, and projects in archaeology and publishing, 
        and serves thousands of other people who participate in Academy 
        concerts, lectures, symposia, exhibitions, and other special events in 
        Rome and the United States;
Whereas the central purpose of the American Academy in Rome is its fellowship 
        program, the Academy being committed to identifying and nurturing the 
        most promising American talent available through the annual Rome Prize 
        Fellowships competition and related programs;
Whereas since its founding, the American Academy in Rome has awarded more than 
        2,500 fellowships and residencies in the fields of architecture, design 
        arts, landscape architecture, conservation and historic preservation, 
        literature, musical composition, visual arts, classical studies, 
        archaeology, art history, modern Italian studies, and post-classical 
        humanistic studies;
Whereas the American Academy in Rome provides its gifted Fellows and Residents 
        with the opportunity to develop and refine their professional, artistic, 
        and scholarly potential through working on their own projects, 
        interaction with their colleagues, and association with members of the 
        Italian and European scholarly and artistic communities;
Whereas Fellows and Residents of the American Academy in Rome have included 2 
        Nobel Prize winners, 4 United States Poets Laureate, 7 National Medal of 
        Arts winners, 9 MacArthur Fellows, and 30 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 
        have won numerous other honors and awards;
Whereas the American Academy in Rome's library contains 111,000 volumes and 
        ranks among the world's richest in its holdings in the fields of Roman 
        topography and archaeology, and is further distinguished for its 
        collection of rare books, periodicals, and works on Italian art and 
        architecture;
Whereas the American Academy in Rome has always represented and fostered 
        excellence in scholarship, having a distinguished scholarly faculty, 
        having many of its Fellows and Residents go on to occupy chairs and 
        posts of high responsibility in the finest colleges and universities in 
        the United States, having publications which rival in quality the best 
        that Europe produces, and having alumni who are the recipients of many 
        academic degrees, honors, and awards;
Whereas the American Academy in Rome can be proud of its reputation in Roman 
        archaeology, having been committed to this lofty and exacting pursuit 
        from its very inception, having revolutionized the history of Roman 
        republican architecture and town planning by it's excavations at Cosa in 
        Etruria, and by continuing to further the development of the field 
        through its perennial engagement in the training of excavators and the 
        work of excavation;
Whereas the American Academy in Rome relies entirely on the income from its 
        endowment, and the financial support of philanthropic individuals, 
        foundations, corporations, colleges and universities across the United 
        States, and the National Endowments for the Arts and for the Humanities; 
        and
Whereas the American Academy in Rome is committed to ensuring the availability 
        of the Rome Prize Fellowships to future generations of Americans as the 
        United States approaches the 21st century: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the American Academy in 
Rome, an American overseas center for independent study and advanced 
research based in Rome, Italy, which has played a pivotal role in the 
transference of culture between the United States and Italy, fostering 
international cultural relations between the two countries, be 
recognized for its contributions to America's cultural and intellectual 
life on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its founding.

            Passed the Senate July 15 (legislative day, July 11), 1994.

            Attest:

                                                MARTHA S. POPE,

                                                             Secretary.