ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many persons and organizations contributed to this project. Foremost, special thanks are due to Mrs. Marjorie Atkins, who so generously and graciously donated the photographs to the George Mason University Libraries. Her daughter and son-in-law, Dale and Len Adler, have provided vision and support to the Atkins Collection.

The project was generously supported by the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), Katherine A. Perry, Executive Director. John C. Walsh, Interim Director of Libraries, has encouraged the collecting and preserving of important, original documents.

Paul S. Koda, Associate Librarian for Special Collections & Archives (SC&A), was Project Manager.  Robert L. Vay, Archivist, was Technical Supervisor.  Amy C. Logar, Robert L. Sandoval, and Boris H. Sanders were Archival Technicians for the project.