Thursday, May 21
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Anne Apgar has arranged tea afterwards at the Mount Vernon Club across the street where we can get to know each other better and discuss RSA developments and news. There is a charge of $18 for the tea which includes finger sandwiches, muffins, cookies, and scones.
Parking is available in the museum lot on Cathedral street or in garages on St. Paul just north of Centre and on Hamilton just west of Charles. The Mount Vernon Club offers valet parking for an extra charge by arrangement.
Space is limited.Family members are welcome as well as guests who would be interested in learning more about the RSA (on a first-come, first served basis). Contact Lynn Broadbent LBroadbent@rsa-us.org to reserve as soon as possible.
Biographical Notes:
Anne and Sandy Apgar have lived in Baltimore – Anne’s hometown – since 1987, following nine years each in London and Washington, DC. A long-time RSA fellow, Sandy studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, as well as Dartmouth College and the Harvard Business School. He has been a partner of consulting firms McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group and was Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment in the Clinton Administration. He continues to pursue real estate consulting and teaching through Apgar & Company which he co-founded. Anne, an alumna of Wellesley College, has a Master’s degree in Urban Economics form the London School of Economics, and has been a planning consultant, administrator of their firm, and recently school development officer. Together, Anne and Sandy have restored historic properties in London; Washington, DC; Alexandria, VA; Baltimore; Newport, RI; and Vermont, and in the coming months, they will be renovating a Civil War-era house in Baltimore’s Federal Hill district overlooking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
Gary Vikan, the Walters Museum Director since 1994 is an internationally known art scholar and the driving force behind some of the most significant exhibitions in the museum’s history. Dr. Vikan has published and lectured extensively on topics as varied as early Christian pilgrimages, medicine and magic, icons and Elvis Presley. He is an adjunct professor at The Johns Hopkins University and a faculty member in The Johns Hopkins University School of Continuing Studies. He has served on the board of the Maryland Humanities Council, on President Clinton’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee and on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States.
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This visit was a rare treat. The St. John’s illuminations are stunning and it was fascinating to see the modern calligraphers’ work alongside ancient medieval texts from around the world.
Gary Vikan took us on a behind the scenes tour of the Walters building and detailed the colorful history of William and Henry Walters and of Mount Vernon Square and the city as a whole.
Sandy Apgar suggests organizing a workshop on urban regeneration to highlight the progress and the problems in the city of Baltimore.