[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 92 (Friday, July 15, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 15, 1994]
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                RECOGNIZING THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME

  The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 204) recognizing the American Academy 
in Rome, an American overseas center for independent study and advanced 
research, on the occasion of the 100th birthday of its founding was 
considered, ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third 
time, and passed.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The joint resolution, and the preamble are as follows:

                             S.J. Res. 204

       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;
       Where 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.

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